About the Technical Reviewers

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 the through his company Gayasoft (www.gayasoft.net), located in Switzerland.

He uses Unity, which he has been using since the 1.x days in 2007, and he enhances its capabilities through extensions where suitable. Marc has a strong background in the 3D graphics, network technology, software engineering, and interactive media, which he started working in as a teenager and later solidified by taking Computer Science and Computational Science and Engineering classes at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich. This knowledge found usage at Popper (www.popper.org), an interactive 3D behavioral research platform by a Harward powered by Unity, Mathlab, and the ExitGames Photon platforms developed by Gayasoft. With the advent 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 AR and VR technologies (Metaio, OpenCV, Oculus Rift) and new forms of input (Razer Hydra, Leap Motion).

Alan Chaney started down the technology path years before he knew anything about software. A guy who’s always been fascinated by how things work, he fed his curiosity by disassembling everything from clocks to motorcycles. When he learned that software offered the same sort of intellectual stimulation, but without the solder burns, he quickly changed his focus from rewiring objects to writing code. During his career as an engineer and entrepreneur Alan has dedicated himself to reinventing everything from search algorithms to 3D content management, always focused on doing things better, faster, and more elegantly than previously imagined.