Contact Information

Email: chrisv@cs.unc.edu

About Me

I am a software engineer at Emergent Game Technologies. I work on the Gamebryo LightSpeed toolset.

While at UNC, I worked with the Effective Virtual Environments research group. I was team lead for the 2007-2008 academic year, the systems lead for the 2004 locomotion user study, and wrote the current version of our Pit demo. As part of this work, I contributed heavily to the EVEIL engine, a series of libraries which integrate with the Wild Magic 3 graphics engine to simplify the creation of immersive virtual environments. I also wrote the drivers for VRPN to support the Xbox 360 Controller, Crossbow RGA300 accelerometer, and X-Keys input devices, as well as generic (if low-level) USB HID support under Windows.

We extended EVEIL to target the Gamebryo renderer in 2008.

Teaching

I taught COMP 380, Computers and Society, in the summer of 2007. The course web page has been archived and is no longer available.

Education

M.S. in Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2008.
B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics, Lander University, Greenwood, SC, 2002.
International Baccalaureate graduate, Southside High School, Greenville, SC, 1999.