Ankit Dhall
Lei Zhang | HCI Researcher
Easel AI, Inc.
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I'm currently a co-founder and CEO at Easel AI, Inc. , where we're building on the intersection of social and Generative AI. Previously, I was a senior research scientist at Snap Research's HCI Group, where we worked on a range of projects in AR, smart glasses, and social computing, that have led to the engagement of millions of users worldwide. Before Snap, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University , where I developed crowdsourcing systems for scaling open-ended complex goals, such as — resear
Wearable communication and AR experiences for friends: Exploring new Snapchats of the smartglasses world New form factors unlock new forms of communication. It is the form factor of smartphones that enabled camera-first apps like Snapchat to exist and thrive. Therefore, it is inevitable that when smartglasses will be widely adopted, it’ll give rise to new Snapchats of the smartglasses world. But what would the future of AR communication look like? In the following projects (listed below), we explored commun
IRL: Exploring playful co-located AR games with friends, kids and pets It’s common to spend hours on your phone connecting with people who are somewhere else while disconnecting from those right beside you. But what if you used your phone to connect with those in your space? IRL reimagines the role of technology with the goal of bringing people in the same space together. A lot of tech aims to build better relationships by decreasing the quantity of screen time. Through the following projects (listed below)
Ankit Dhall
Lei Zhang | HCI Researcher
Easel AI, Inc.