Magic Leap, in which Google invested $542 million, intends to make a device that overlays digital animation on a user’s field of vision.

Gary Natsume is currently the Vice President of Industrial Design and UI at Magic Leap. Prior to joining Magic Leap in 2013, he was the Vice President and Director of Design and Research at ECCO Design in New York City. While at ECCO Design, he has developed a strong interest in products focusing on the family, the cohesion of brand promise and mass production implementation with overseas manufacturing, and a multi-disciplined design strategy involving user behavior studies, technological trend analysis and ethnographic research.

He is a visiting associate professor at Pratt Institute and an adjunct faculty member at New York University’s Tisch School of Arts. Before joining ECCO Design, he worked for frog design dealing with clients such as Nike, Timex, Ford and Coca-Cola. Natsume received a graduate degree from Cranbook Academy of Art in 1997. His thesis project “Bound Packet Computing” was exhibited at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s show. Prior to Cranbook, he graduated from Parsons The New School for Design and Aichi Prefecture University of Fine Arts, Japan in 1992.

Altec Lansing: Upgrader Series Headphones

Altec Lansing: Upgrader Series Headphones

Virgin Pulse Product Family: Lifestyle Consumer Electronics

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VistaLab Ovation Digital Pipette. The Ovation won an ISDA Gold Award for medical devices in 2000. It has been in production for over a decade.

VistaLab Ovation Digital Pipette