The Immersive Archive

About the Project

The Immersive Archive is a research and development project dedicated to recreating and preserving seminal XR experiences from the early days of the medium. Just as a film archive preserves classic cinema, the Immersive Archive aims to ensure that landmark XR works — many of which no longer run on modern hardware — remain accessible to researchers, educators, and future creators.

Started at the Mobile and Environmental Media Lab at USC, the project combines faithful recreation with scholarly documentation to build a living record of XR history.

My Role

As Technical Lead, I was responsible for:

• Defining the software architecture and technical roadmap for the project
• Prototyping and iterating multiple modules recreating seminal XR experiences in Unity
• Representing the project at SIGGRAPH 2023 and AWE 2024, where it won Best in Show
• Co-authoring a paper published in IEEE Conference Proceedings