Blair MacIntyre's Web Home

In my professional life, I'm a Professor at Northeastern University with appointments in the School of Art+Design in the College of Art, Media and Design, and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Previously I was a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, where I worked for 23 years. For most of my career, I've worked on mixed reality (mostly augmented reality, but more recently also virtual reality), designing software to help non-geeks (i.e., people "not like me") create interactive experiences that appear to live around them in the physical world, and in exploring the potential of these experiences to change how we work, play and live.

In recent years, I've focused on social mixed reality. I spent time at JPMorganChase from 2022-2026, where I was Global Head of Immersive Technology Research, leading a team within Global Technology Applied Research investigating how immersive technologies could impact the company, their employees, and customers. Prior to that I was at Mozilla from 2016-2020, working on WebXR and related topics to help ensure the web is a safe, secure, open environment for augmented reality and virtual reality development. Over the past two decades, I've become personally and professionally focused on the Climate Crisis, which has fueled my interest in using distributed, social mixed reality to support online conferences, meetings, and teaching. I am a member of the IEEE VGTC VR Academy and the AWE XR Hall of Fame.

Over my career I have consulted with many companies, large and small, providing advice and guidance on understanding and deploying immersive technologies, developing expert opinions on legal matters, and helping design and build systems through both the MacMynatt Group (a small consultancy) and Aura Interactive (an interactive media firm I ran with Maribeth Gandy Coleman). In my spare time, I hang out with my wife and kids (when they are home), play with our dogs, play the bagpipes (although I set that aside during the lockdown, as they were pretty loud for other folks in the house, and have only recently gotten back to), have helped out with technology at my kid's schools, and play the occasional video game, especially Overwatch and Valorant (I used to be pretty good at Rocket League, but don't play it much anymore).

In these pages, you'll find pointers to some of the projects I've worked on over the years, some articles I've written, and my blog, which focuses on augmented reality but also touches on education, games, design, and occasionally politics.

I've started mixing regular and micro blog posts. The micro.blog idea is really interesting; a way to share small thoughts (like on twitter) but retain control over the content on your own publishing platform. My micro.blog is at https://micro.blog/blair.