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Product Designer on the AR team at Meta. Previously: Google Lens, ARCore, Daydream, Android Wear, Google Now, and Glass. Principal Designer on Firefox 2 to 4.

Mountain View, CA
Joined March 2007
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Alex Faaborg retweeted
#ARCore initial impressions - Pretty solid for a preview. Blow away by the light estimations.
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Alex Faaborg retweeted
Just hangin' with my buddies 😀. Start building with #ARCore today. We're excited to see what you create! blog.google/products/google-…
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Check out Cool AR experiment built on #ARCore g.co/arexperiments
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Alex Faaborg retweeted
Had this idea and couldn't help try it. A new #VR locomotion method, should be the new standard! :D #gamedev #madewithunity #ninjateleport
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Why do we hear notes? Try this to hear how brain perceives rapid clicks: alexanderchen.github.io/clic… @ericrosenbizzle
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Alex Faaborg retweeted
This is just more evidence there’s a mole in Trumpsylvania. Plus the logo. The logo, for god’s sake. xitter.gq/soniasaraiya/status/75…
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Alex Faaborg retweeted
Having fun with a new mechanic to enter & exit spaces. Inspired by fantastic contraption + budget cuts. #gamedev #vr
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Alex Faaborg retweeted
Blur-Sprint #VR locomotion attempts more immersion than teleport w/ same lack of motion sickness via @StorkBurntDown
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Alex Faaborg retweeted
VR is a prosthetic imagination.
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Alex Faaborg retweeted
Let's make a virtual reality game live on stage at Google I/O. What can go wrong? (: events.google.com/io2016/sch… #gamedev #indiedev
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Here's our piece on Encryption from last night...youtube.com/watch?v=zsjZ2r9Y…
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Alex Faaborg retweeted
SensorTape from the Responsive Environments group: 3D-aware, dense sensor network on a tape mitsha.re/YN1Nk
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Alex Faaborg retweeted
#VisionSummit16 talk on room-scale #VR design w/ @htcvive published!! youtube.com/watch?v=VFzkfJUF…
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And your mom will take them away after you knock over all the lamps. xitter.gq/faaborg/status/7012251…
In the future MMOs will sell you powerful weapons and they will arrive in the mail with tracking markers. #sfvr
Alex Faaborg @faaborg is on the virtual reality team at Google. He shows off VR and Google Cardboard.
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Cardboard and your phone make serious fun. A fresh round of updates for Cardboard users, developers, and makers goo.gl/aM2EZW
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Excited about Material Design? #GoogleUX is hiring interaction designers. Learn more and apply: goo.gl/twnYOd #IO14 #uxdesign #ux
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According to these screenshots, Google I/O speakers this year will include me and Larry Page. In that order. googledevelopers.blogspot.co…
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Really excited to introduce Android for Wearables to a new generation of devices with a developer preview today googleblog.blogspot.com/2014…
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