Google has published acknowledgements for a collaboration involving multiple teams on a project that includes the XR Blocks framework. The note names contributors across Google, along with support from the Gemini Canvas and AI Studio teams.
The acknowledgements say the following researchers and engineers contributed to the XR Blocks framework: David Li and Ruofei Du (equal primary contributions), Nels Numan, Xun Qian, Yanhe Chen, and Zhongyi Zhou, (equal secondary contributions, sorted alphabetically), as well as Evgenii Alekseev, Geonsun Lee, Alex Cooper, Brandon Jones, Min Xia, Scott Chung, Jeremy Nelson, Xiuxiu Yuan, Jolica Dias, Tim Bettridge, Benjamin Hersh, Michelle Huynh, Konrad Piascik, Ricardo Cabello, and David Kim.
It also lists contributors to the broader project, including Ruofei Du, Benjamin Hersh, David Li, Xun Qian, Nels Numan, Zhongyi Zhou, Yanhe Chen, Xingyue Chen, Jiahao Ren, Robert Timothy Bettridge, Faraz Faruqi, Xiang ‘Anthony’ Chen, Steve Toh, and David Kim.
Additional thanks are given to the Gemini Canvas and AI Studio teams, including Tim Bettridge, Yan Li, Daniel Marques, Deven Tokuno, Levent Yilmaz, Saravana Rathinam, Samuel Petit, Mike Taylor-Cai, Ammaar Reshi, and Robert Berry.
The text also credits feedback and discussion on early-stage proposal and WebXR experiments from Mahdi Tayarani, Max Dzitsiuk, Jim Ratcliffe, Patrick Hackett, Seeyam Qiu, Coco Fatus, Alon Hetzroni, Aaron Kim, Yinghua Yang, Brian Collins, Eric Gonzalez, Keith Moon, Nicolás Peña Moreno, Yidang Zhang, Jamie Pepper, Yuhao He, Yi-Fei Li, Ziyi Liu, Jing Jin, plus reviews from Tim Herrmann and Andrew Helton.
It ends by thanking Maryam Sanglaji, Max Spear, Adarsh Kowdle, Guru Somadder, and Shahram Izadi for directional feedback and contribution.
Source: research.google.
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