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    I'm Degly

    Extended Realities Specialist
    and Systems and Computer engineer

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About Us

Who Am I?

Hey I'm Degly Pava, Senior Extended Reality Specialist and CEO in Tokyo, Japan. My expertise lies in creating cutting-edge Extended Reality experiences that have garnered attention not only locally but also from big players in countries like Japan, USA, and Colombia.

For nearly a decade, I've been dedicated to honing my skills with the aim of becoming a top-tier virtual and augmented reality developer. Join me on this exciting journey, and feel free to satisfy your curiosity!

Computer Engineering

Augmented and Virtual Realities

Innovative Technologies

Research and Innovation Focus

Want to know more?
Check my social networks

@deglypava

What's new?

Latest Experience

Senior Extended Reality Specialist – Manager at STYLY Inc. July 2024 – Present

  • Coordinated a Unity-based space exploration game demo designed for Apple Vision Pro called Astroscoop, showcased at MWC 2025 as part of KDDI’s forward-looking XR initiative; contributed to STYLY’s growing reputation in immersive gaming and experiences.
  • Led global developer outreach and bilingual partnerships for STYLY, facilitating collaboration between Japanese and international teams; built strategic relationships with MIT, Parsons School of Design, and leading XR developers across the US, Korea, and Latin America.
  • Drove platform growth through mentorship, technical workshops, and global event presence—supporting over 700 developers and contributing to a catalog of 50,000+ published XR contents; featured at Tokyo Game Show, MIT Reality Hack, SushiTech, AWE, and other major industry events.

Senior Unity AR Engineer, Solution Division at Pretia Technologies October 2023 – July 2024

  • Developed core AR systems powering mobile games like ARPuzzleGame, AnimalPal, and ARgamemadeEZ, released in 173 countries and featured at Universal Studios Japan.
  • Collaborated with global gaming giants including CAPCOM and Nintendo, leading cross-functional teams and managing external developers to deliver polished AR gameplay experiences.
  • Pioneered AR glasses development through Qualcomm’s AR Developer Pathfinders Program, focusing on multi-device collaboration, seamless UX, and high-performance mobile-to-headset interactions.

Founder / XR Engineer at Omni Applications LLC & LucidDreams S.A.S April 2021 – September 2023

  • Created and launched high-impact AR experiences across TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat driving over 291 million lifetime interactions and helping brands deliver immersive marketing and gaming campaigns through full-platform XR strategies.
  • Lead XR developer events in Colombia in collaboration with XRCol, building strong ties with the Meta Oculus Start community and supporting local creators; prototyped original game demos including an environment-reactive VR shooter built for spatial gameplay.
My Work

Recent Work

You can find some of my amazing projects here, if you want more information about them just check out my GitHub, Instragram or the videos included in some of them.

Making an animated Avatar

Created my own avatar with ThreeJS and GLSL. Also added an AR logo that you can place anywhere using your phone.
Test it here

Using MediaPipe for a Parallax 3D Effect

Experience where I take a facemesh from a webcam feed and use it to track the movements of the user in order to give a Motion Parallax effect. Useful for Augmented reality experiences.
Test it here

3D Reconstructions using Colmap and MeshLab

An outdoor scene reconstructed from 1983 frames from a video. This mesh was obtained by feature extraction on Colmap and then parsed in MeshLab
See the full image here

Realtime 3D Visualizer

Developed using THREE.JS and GLSL. A research based web simulation that will show you the color composition and light elevation of a specific video. Available also as a VR experience, tested in Oculus Quest 2
Check out the code

HoloBrain 2.0

Project developed with the help of Microsoft Garage. A Holographic brain floats in space to teach Neuroanatomy students about its parts and how to read and understand MRI.
Cool video here

AR Car Tracking

Using Vuforia Image Trackers, an Arduino developed car and a HoloLens device, we created this OpenXR Application that lets you play a Mario-Kart-esque game where you get powerups when you hit the special orbs
Check the code here

Online Clinical Simulation

As a UBC faculty of medicine research project, we used augmented reality to give life to Annie, the mannequin that would teach students how to perform PCR and other medical techniques. We used ARCore and ARKit for mobile development.
Cool video here

Facial Emotion Recognition

Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and a whole lot of reading about emotions, I developed a 65% accurate Facial Emotion Recognition software using OpenCV and CUDA. It even shows nice emojis
Funny video here

See my AR effects on Instagram

See more projects at my Github

What can I do?

Here are some of my skills

VR/AR/XR Developer

Working and learning everyday to finally fool everybody's brain

Startup Enthusiast

Founder of Omni Applications, LucidDreams and La Panadería Gourmet

S&Computer Engineer

“Scientists study the world as it is; engineers create the world that has never been.”

Photonics

It's incredible how much information our eyes receive..

Languages

I can translate your name to Español, Français, 한국어 or 日本語

Social Skills

Music Production, DJing, Photography and Sports, I'll be able to do everything

Projects
Research groups
Awards
Visited countries

Professional Certificates

Meta Oculus Start Developer

Top Voted MIT / Hackathon Mentor

Apple Vision Pro Developer

Meta Spark Creator AR Certification

Unity and C# Proficiency

VR and AR game development using multiple SDK

User Experience & Interaction Design for AR/VR/MR/XR

AR & Video Codec Streaming Services Emerging Tech

Experienced in Global Relationship and Partnerships

User Experience and Interaction Design for AR/VR/MR/XR

Education

Certified Education

Master of Science in Imaging and Light in Extended Realities

  • IMLEX Program Scholarship
  • Erasmus Mundus Scholarship
  • Manutech-Sleight Scholarship
  • BRMI Scholarship

University of Eastern Finland (Finland), Toyohashi University of Technology (Japan), University Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne (France) and KU Leuven (Belgium)

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotá

  • Best Highschool Graduates of Colombia - Full Scholarship

DNA Music Academy, Bogotá, Colombia

The HIVE at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  • HoloBrain 2.0 2018 - 2021
  • Online Clinical Simulation 2019 - 2021
  • Mr. Manikin 2019 - 2021

Honors & Awards

Programa crédito beca - COLFUTURO (Colombia)

Full Masters Program scholarship for the best students in Colombia

Bourse de la région Auvergne Rhône Alpes (BRMIE)

Scholarship from the Région Auvergne Rhône Alpes in France

MANUTECH SLEIGHT

Scholarship and Certificate from Université of Lyon and Université Jean-Monnet

Erasmus Mundus

Mobility Award from the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu (2021)

ERASMUS - IMLEX

Full tuition scholarship from the ERASMUS IMLEX Consortium (2021-2023)

ELAP - VIRS Award

Government of Canada & The University of British Columbia (2019-2021)

Purdue Fellowship

Grant for research at IronHacks - Purdue University (2018)

Full Scholarship

Best Graduates of Colombia, National University of Colombia (2013-2019)

My Specialty

Let's get technical

According to my projects, these are the skills I practice the most, please check the certificates below too!

ThreeJS + Javascript

50%

C# + Unity Toolkits

80%

3D Reconstructions / Photogrammetry

70%

Robotics

30%

Hololens MRTK / Vuforia

85%

Blender / 3D Modeling

54%

ARKit / ARCore

70%

Python / Deep Learning

80%
Pre-2021

Previous Experience

Founder and Developer at Omni Applications L.L.C. 2020

Company specialized in providing augmented reality solutions for e-commerce, retail, healthcare, marketing & advertising, gaming, education, industrial and associated sectors. Our goal is to bring Augmented and Virtual Reality to the regular customer. Based in The United States

XR Development Fellowship 2018-2019

As a Visiting International Research Scholar in Canada I was in charge of the first version of the HoloBrain project in collaboration with the Microsoft Garage Internship programme. Developed a volumetric rendering of an MRI scanned brain efficient enough to work on HoloLens v1 .

Lead Developer 2017-2019

Developed a NetLogo software based on Industrial Engineering classes of Product Management. This simulation was focused in the areas of Material Requirements Planning and Scheduling

IronHacks Fellow and Developer @ Purdue 2018

One of the researchers who made Purdue - UNAL Fall IronHacks 2018 a reality. Also, developed a HTML and Amazon Web Services (AWS) research based software focused on helping civil engineers and architects find the best way to build an energy efficient building by using data obtained from EnergyPlus processing, Open Data and Matlab Cloud Computing for costs calculation.

Teacher Asset-Tutores 2016-2018

Give out classes for school and college students in need to improve their knowledge and their skills in a certain topic related to English, Mathematics, Technology, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and related.

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Get in Touch

Contact Me

Find me as @deglypava

deglypavapava@gmail.com

Tokyo, Japan

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