Benjamín Benavides

Interactive Developer

I love to experiment and integrate new technology and knowledge to create audiovisual experiences. I like to work with people from different backgrounds and learn by doing.

Work

Lead Developer

Proyección de Ideas Pi makes projection mapping, interactive installations and live events.
– Present
Santiago, Chile

In charge of the development team.

  • Developed tools for creating Virtual Production events in Unreal using LED volumes or green screen.

  • Made permanent installation for a client's office that displays camera feeds, videos, real-time data.

  • Developed 360° WebGL virtual tour framework in Unity.

  • Made framework for multi platform interactive games and installations where people join from their phones.

Intern

Proyección de Ideas Pi makes projection mapping, interactive installations and live events.
Santiago, Chile

Developed a VR game for a motorcycle launch. Made an MVP of a VR interactive capacitation.

Intern

Piper Piper makes a toy for kids to learn electronics/programming by playing Minecraft.
San Francisco, CA

Worked at Piper during my summer holidays.

  • Made the website.

  • Directed and edited Kickstarter campaign video.

  • Made 3D animations for the game.

Education

Projects

Exponor

External Developer at Pi

Interactive augmented reality application for Magic Leap.

Luz y Sombra

Realtime interactive museum installation about light and shadow concepts.

Sinusoidal

Projection mapping presentation presented in Kiev’s Light Festival 2017.

Default

Realtime interactive museum installation about neuroscience.

Salmonero Ninja

Educational virtual reality game to learn about aquaculture.

Ångström

Educational mobile game about different scales of distance and basic chemical reactions.

Awards

LA.PCERA Videogame Jam

2nd place with virtual reality game.

The Bridge UC Scholarship

Awarded by PUC Engineering School

Entrepreneurship course at UC Berkeley in San Francisco, CA.

AbreCL Data Visualization Hackathon

Awarded by Chilean Government

1st place in physical interactive data visualization category.

Skills

Real Time

  • Unity
  • Touchdesigner
  • Unreal

Programming

  • Python
  • C#

AI

  • Pytorch
  • Keras
  • Tensorflow

Languages

Spanish

Native speaker

English

Advanced

Interests

Artificial Intelligence

  • GANs