Azad Balabanian is a 3D artist and vr dev specializing in photogrammetry, and radiance fields.

His work has been featured by DJI, Oculus Medium, and the Institute for the Future, as a creative technologist pushing the medium in a new direction. 

His love for drones, cinematography, and 3D scanning has taken him from Iceland to Armenia, creating vr docs, cinematic short films, and cultural heritage documentation.

He is currently a Sr. Product Manager at Niantic Labs, previously helped develop Puzzling Places at Realities.io and hosted the Research VR Podcast, facilitating discussions about the science and design of virtual reality and spatial computing.

Azad was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon and Palo Alto, CA. He currently resides in San Francisco.

Contact

az@azadux.com