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Gonzalo Orce Jimenez

Gonzalo Orce Jimenez

XR developer and researcher

Gonzalo Orce Jimenez is an XR developer and researcher from Argentina, working at Fraunhofer IGD in Darmstadt. He studied Expanded Realities and Expanded Media at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. He builds embodied AI characters and hands-free AR. His AI companion Majo talks with visitors in mixed reality and makes art with them. Si la Soledad lo fuera Todo, made in the MReAL residency of the Education University of Hong Kong, brings her into a VRChat exhibition and is nominated for XRC26 in the Zeitgeist category. At the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) VR/AR Workshop 2026 he presented a paper on a hands-free AR guide for the Bahnpark Augsburg Museum, to be published open access. He won first place at SensAI Hack 2025 and the Empower XR Award 2026.

  • Thursday, November 19 · Time TBA

    Talk

    Designing for Smartglasses: An AR Guide for Railway Heritage

    Smartglasses are coming from several makers, and the rules for designing them are still being written. At Bahnpark Augsburg, a historic railway roundhouse, I built a hands-free museum guide for Snap Spectacles. Visitors walk up to a locomotive, look at it, and a life-size AI-generated narrator, a locomotive engineer or Empress Sisi, starts telling its story. A trail on the floor leads them to the next stop. Most visitors in the final test had never worn AR glasses before, and they still found it easy to use. The talk is about the design choices behind the guide, how the narrator videos were generated, and what the visitors taught me along the way.

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