University of Southern California
Rylan Pozniak Daniels is an award-winning AR/VR creator with notable collaborations with NASA, Apple, Stanford University, Snapchat, Google, and Niantic. His mission is to democratize XR technology. Rylan led a team to develop an AR-equipped spacesuit for NASA's Artemis mission, and has contributed significantly to XR development at Apple and Niantic. He has won several XR hackathons, including the MIT Reality Hack and StanfordXR hackathon. Rylan created a VR neuroanatomy app for Stanford’s medical students, and received the Nextant Prize for AR/VR Social Impact. Earlier, he worked on an AR visualization of a floating city to highlight climate change impacts, and was among the first to create AR lenses for Snapchat. Rylan won 1st place in a UploadVR juried competition for Best VR app, where he created a VR adventure through the human brain.