About the Technical Reviewer

Marc Schärer is an interactive media software engineer delivering interactive learning, training, and entertainment experiences to mobile, desktop, and web platforms for customers from all over through his company Gayasoft (http://www.gayasoft.net) located in Switzerland.

He uses Unity, which he has been using since the technologies 1.x days in 2007, and enhances its capabilities through extensions where suitable.

Marc has a strong background in 3D graphics, network technology, software engineering, and interactive media, which he started building in his teenage years and later solidified through education in computer science and computational science and engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich.

He applied this knowledge to usage in Popper (http://www.popper.org), an interactive three-dimensional behavioral research platform by a Harward powered by Unity, Mathlab, and the ExitGames Photon platforms developed by Gayasoft.

With the rise of serious games, Marc is currently focusing his and his company’s efforts to research options and technologies for the next generation of interactive and immersive experiences through Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality technologies (Metaio, OpenCV, Oculus Rift) and new forms of input (Razer Hydra, Leap Motion).