Jani Ylinen

Biography

In my 25 years of working career I have been working with interesting and amazing projects in many fields of industry such as virtual reality VR/XR Unity development, virtual reality UI design with hand tracking, 3D graphics, photogrammetry, mobile phone UI design, physical products prototyping and manufacturing.

Last 6 years I have been working for Varjo as a VR/XR demo developer. A lot of trial and error has been done to test what works and what doesn't in virtual reality demo experiences and applications. The VR/XR and environment is new and still a bit unknown. It is a field for completely new kinds of interactions and experiences. It is amazing what you can do by combining different kinds of inputs such as eye tracking and hand tracking together. It has also been very self educating while making demos that gather different kinds of information about users behaviour while they use VR experience.

At the moment I am continuing my studies about Unity C# programming. Virtual and mixed reality are expanding very fast so it is now a good time for me to deepen my knowledge about programming with Unity.

I will be ready to accept a new job position in June.

I am looking for opportunities and challenges as a developer in industries that are using VR/XR/AR. Using virtual reality in heavy machinery or industrial training and simulation would be very interesting. Using photogrammetry is a powerful tool for creating digital twins of environments that have lots of texture. I am also interested in virtual reality gaming. I feel that my heart is leaning towards the training, simulation and education sector, there is so much amazing potential for VR.

I don't know much about AI at the moment but it would be interesting to incorporate some AI possibilities for educational applications in VR. That I would like to learn.

In reality, I am a human being who needs some earth grounding hobbies to balance my life on the tip of the digital wave. To keep my mind sane one needs to have hobbies that connect me back to ground as sturdy as possible.

These are my hobbies:

• Black & White large format film photography
• Hiking and Cross country skiing
• Astrophotography
• Field recording
• Pottery
• Fishing

These are the tools I use for creation:

• Unity
• Adobe Creative cloud
• Maya
• Blender
• Rhino
• Fusion 360
• Reality capture
• Reaper
• ZBrush

These tools keeps my projects managed:

• Jira
• Trello
• GIT