Ontario Centres of Excellence government-funded applied R&D project to develop a mobile Mixed Reality broadcasting booth — a portable system for compositing real presenters into virtual environments in real time. OCE grants require real technical and commercial substance with public-sector oversight.

Two phases of the same healthcare VR initiative. In ~2018, Lucas produced the mixed reality marketing content around the return-to-work concept. In 2020, the project evolved into a full COVID-19 pandemic response tool — a VR-based biometric assessment built in Unreal Engine on HP Reverb to evaluate frontline ER nurses' readiness to return to clinical work. Reached green-screen studio production with clinical participants in medical scrubs.

Project manager for a cohort of Mohawk College students, teaching them the fundamentals and applications of Mixed Reality within the project scope. Curriculum had to be continuously built and adapted as the technology itself was in rapid flux.

Multi-year co-facilitator of VR Society meetup groups during the formative years of consumer VR. Community-building at the ground level of a technology movement, building relationships with local developers, hardware enthusiasts, and early-adopter communities.

Repaired and refurbished VR equipment acquired from bankrupt Ctrl V Arcade locations and the secondary market. Component-level diagnostics and repair of headsets, trackers, controllers, and PC integrations — returning distressed units to sellable condition.

Interactive VR booth at CODEfest 2018 for 400 Grade 7 & 8 students — demonstrated the MR booth and MR broadcasting using the mobile green screen booth from the OCE grant project. First public deployment of the OCE booth outside the grant itself.

Hands-on testing experience across 15+ VR/AR headset models (Rift, Vive, Quest, PSVR, Pimax, Hololens, Magic Leap, HP Reverb, etc.) and 15+ commercial LBE VR systems (Zero Latency, The Void, Hologate, Virtuix OMNI, etc.).