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I’ve recently been hired by pioneering arts organisation CREW<\/a> to be one of their main artists and developers. Updates here will be few and far between.

I’m very excited to be part of CREW, they have a unique approach and I’ve been wanting to get into VR, which they have been pushing for literally decades.

I’m mainly working on the PRESENT-project, a EU consortium with industrial and academic partners to develop digital humans.
In a way, this is full circle for me, as I’ve been creating digital environments for a while now, Blue Brute is nothing but that. With PRESENT I’ll be populating environments with intelligent and responsive avatars, cutting edge stuff which will clear a path for more concrete narratives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve recently been hired by pioneering arts organisation CREW to be one of their main artists and developers. Updates here will be few and far between. I’m very excited to be part of CREW, they have a unique approach and I’ve been wanting to get into VR, which they have been pushing for literally decades. I’m mainly working on the PRESENT-project, a EU consortium with industrial and academic partners to develop digital humans. In a way, this is full circle for me, as I’ve been creating digital environments for a while now, Blue Brute is nothing but that. With PRESENT I’ll be populating environments with intelligent and responsive avatars, cutting edge stuff which will clear a path for more concrete narratives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-process"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/isjtar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HighresScreenshot00003.png?fit=1468%2C864&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saeaLp-crew","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":824,"url":"https:\/\/isjtar.org\/index.php\/2024\/03\/20\/liege-railway-tunnels\/","url_meta":{"origin":462,"position":0},"title":"Li\u00e8ge Railway tunnels","date":"March 20, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Ran into some screenshots of environments based on scans of Li\u00e8ge railway tunnels back when we were working on Delirious Departures.","rel":"","context":"In "process"","img":{"alt_text":"Li\u00e8ge railway tunnel","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/isjtar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/HighresScreenshot00001b-e1740052493814.png?fit=1200%2C671&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":789,"url":"https:\/\/isjtar.org\/index.php\/2023\/04\/14\/soulhacker\/","url_meta":{"origin":462,"position":1},"title":"Soulhacker","date":"April 14, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Which role can art and VR play in the treatment of psychiatric patients? 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