Weston Bell-Geddes
Virtual reality designer and developer making meaningful content for social change, healthcare and good vibes
Hi, I'm Weston. I'm an eighteen year old college kid and I really (really) like VR. I've been making VR games since my sophomore year of high school and I haven't stopped. I'm extremely passionate about making meaningful immersive reality experiences that emphasize healthcare and social change. I've had the opportunity to show my work at VRLA, VEX Robotics World Championships and USC's Game Expo. Please enjoy and thanks for taking a look!
Portfolio website: https://www.westonbdev.com/vrar.html
Projects below are listed chronologically and are developed solely by myself unless otherwise stated.
Personal Projects
Close Your Eyes (TEAM PROJECT)
Experiment with choice-driven narrative in VR
Role: Developer/designer
Link: https://westonbdev.itch.io/close-your-eyes
VR Party Pack
A plethora of local multiplayer party games for you and all your VR-loving friends!
Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1010840/VR_Party_Pack/
UpClose VR
This virtual reality project combined my two greatest passions: photography and computer science. Inspired by the work of Levon Biss, I used a powerful magnification lens and a stack shot program to create a microsculpture of a bug. My partner compiled the images while I was the camera technician and in charge of rendering. Once the project was finished, I created a VR experience where the user can rotate, move and zoom in to the bug and see the immense detail that nature possesses. As I continue to take pictures of objects with the microscopic lens, I will add them to the experience. Read more: www.westonbdev.com/upclose-vr.html
Link: https://www.viveport.com/8543febd-0524-4e12-b0fe-6204e9abec99
The Seven Stages
Inspired by William Shakespeare's poem All The World's A Stage comes the VR game: The Seven Stages. The player must escape each "room" that represents a stage in their life. They can escape the room by solving various puzzles of increasing difficulty.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/706570/The_Seven_Stages/
Christmas!
Pull up your holiday spirit by the bootstraps and sip a nice cup of hot coco in this cozy log cabin experience! Tend to the fire, gaze out at the snow or just sit there for a few minutes and contemplate your year. Enjoy the heartwarming pictures of pets on the wall while you read carols by the candlelight. This is just a little experience I created for the holiday season, enjoy!
Link: https://www.viveport.com/2271d338-24ec-46ca-8cda-e555c177d97a
VEX VR
VEX VR allows you to play every game in VEX Robotics history ever since 2007. For my school robotics competition I created VEX VR. I wrote physics engines for each game. After demonstrating VEX VR in a booth at my school's robotics competition, I was invited by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation to display my simulation in a booth at VEX Worlds 2018. I redesigned the experience and improved it to show off at the four day event of VEX World Championship of April 2018, making me the youngest exhibitor to attend.
Link: https://www.viveport.com/cd575527-2fc6-4236-8057-f323b9b0d813
Cybertrix
Cybertrix is a fast paced, puzzle platformer in immersive virtual reality. Find your way through a series of mazes and critical-thinking maps with multiple solutions. After publishing Cybertrix on Viveport and getting very positive feedback, Cybertrix became my most popular game and one of the most downloaded free games on Viveport.
Link: https://www.viveport.com/apps/1dced939-c969-4c28-80e5-90a71c904845
Artifice
Step into a piece of art; a VR experience that will change how you view the art world, while you reinvent the painting to reflect yourself. Artifice was my first VR game, it includes work from seven artists and mini-games from some of my favorites. I received an award for achievement in Computer Generated Imagery for my work in virtual reality from this VR experience.
Link: https://www.viveport.com/apps/72b39dab-5418-445c-b086-6509a62dad6a
USC Games Advanced Games Projects
I'm currently a rising sophomore at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts Interactive Media and Games Division.
Soulfarer (TEAM PROJECT)
Physical therapy is necessary to prevent and treat pain or injury. Soulfarer adds game elements to traditional physical therapy. In the game, you are a Mesoamerican shaman, able to commune with nature, cast spells and manipulate the natural world around you. Soulfarer immerses the patient-player in this fantastical setting as they are guided to use their in-game abilities in ways that mirror and facilitate rehabilitation exercises for shoulder injuries.
Role: Lead designer / VR level designer
Link: https://soulfarer.com/
Our America (TEAM PROJECT)
Narrative VR experience for Oculus. The experience follows a father and his son on the way to school until things take a turn for the worse.
Role: VR Interactions Designer
Link: https://www.facebook.com/OurAmericaVR
Other VR Development
Internship: NASA, Summer 2020
Working on NASA's AR/VR team to develop experiences to aid scientists and astronauts
Internship: Games for Love, Spring 2020 (https://gamesforlove.org/)
Games for Love is a kindness-oriented Non-Profit Community for the purpose of easing the suffering of children in life-threatening conditions and, contribute towards building a sustainable financial future for them. 90% of the profits made by our game will be given directly to charity.
Worked on developing VR games that were highly accessible and playable for everyone.
Internship: The David Labkovski Project, highschool (https://www.davidlabkovskiproject.org/virtual-reality.html)
The World That Was is a virtual reality museum exhibition I was created with the David Labkovski Project. This fully immersive audio-visual VR experience places the user inside the paintings of David Labkovski, an artist born in Niebel, Russia, in 1906. His paintings show the vivid life and culture of the world that was before the horrors of the Holocaust. I, along with the help of a team of historians and writers, created portable VR museum instillation that will ultimately be displayed all over the world, most notably in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Role: VR Designer, developer
Link: https://www.viveport.com/a42ee63e-e679-452c-a9dc-9f93043b54fe
If you have any questions or want to check out any of my other stuff please feel free to check out my website: www.westonbdev.com
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