AR / MR — Erin Yang

Two years spanning two flagship platforms — Orion AR glasses and Quest 3. Two projects, each with a public Meta Connect demo for context, and what I actually designed underneath.

Public · Orion, Meta Connect 2024 ↗

Orion · AR glasses

Why AR matters in everyday life

The domain was everyday utilities — reminders, notes, calendar, timers — for world-locked AR glasses. My question throughout: when does putting one of these in AR actually beat the phone in your pocket? What I did:

Framed the utility case — context makes AR win: a "drink water" reminder waits on the glass until you're at the sink; a DMV entry unpacks into cues pinned to the documents, keys and sunglasses you need.
Reimagined the contextual tools — reminders, notes, calendar and timers designed for space rather than a screen.
Defined Adaptive-to-Space — a reusable guideline for how an object changes form as it floats, attaches to a surface, or grounds to a plane.

Public · Quest 3 Augments, Meta Connect 2023 ↗

Augments · Meta Quest 3

Onboarding a brand-new medium

Augments are persistent 3D widgets that live in your room. The hard part wasn't the controls — it was teaching a concept no one had a mental model for yet. What I did:

Pushed Adaptive-to-Space to its limit in a 3D Solar System — hold it as a floating orrery, attach it to a wall for a window into space, or drop it to the floor and stand on the Martian surface.
Designed value-first onboarding — a gift box fills your room with augments in seconds, then folds them back so you place your own.
Built learning by doing — growing a single tree teaches move, rotate and scale, rewarding each correct action as the sapling grows.