Sean Kelly

I turn new technology into things you can try.

I’m Sean Kelly. I work in eBay’s Office of the CEO, where I develop AI product and strategy concepts and build them into demos leaders can evaluate. Before that I prototyped AR glasses and AI wearables at Meta, made AR and AI experiences at Google Creative Lab, and co-founded Medivis.

Orion glasses, the EMG wristband and the compute puck on a table OrionMeta, 2024Interaction and AI prototypes for Meta’s first true AR glasses.
A hand holding Muse Charm, a small round device on a wrist strap, its screen showing an animated character Muse CharmMeta, announced 2026Early prototypes of a pocket-size AI companion, ahead of Meta’s Muse Charm. Ray-Ban MetaMeta, 2024Putting LLMs on glasses with no display, to find out what they were good for.
AR insects in Google SearchGoogle Creative Lab, 2020A life-size hercules beetle on your desk, straight from a search result. A performer inside the spherical light-stage capture rig ARIAGoogle Creative Lab, 2019An opera, captured volumetrically, performed in your living room on a phone.
MedivisCo-founder, 2015 to 2017Surgical AR built from a patient’s real CT and MRI scans. Projected visuals above the stage at Shanghai Symphony Hall Project NeuronShanghai Symphony Hall, 2017Four motion-captured dancers driving a live Unreal Engine performance.

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About

Sean Kelly

I started in spatial computing. I co-founded Medivis in 2015, researched XR at NYU, and published first-author work with Google at SIGGRAPH Asia. At Meta I spent three years building real-time prototypes for AR glasses, AI wearables and neural input, including demos presented to the CEO and the board.

The method hasn’t changed: understand a new technical medium, find the useful product idea inside it, and build enough of it to make the decision concrete.

I studied at NYU Shanghai and have lived in Shanghai, New York and Sydney. I’m now in the Bay Area.

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Publications

  • AR-ia: Volumetric Opera for Mobile Augmented RealitySIGGRAPH Asia 2019, first author
  • Mixed-Reality Visualization for Evaluation of Cerebrovascular LesionsAmerican Society of Neuroradiology
  • Mixed Reality Visualization for Intracranial TumorsAmerican Society of Neuroradiology
  • Mixed Reality Visualization of Medical Imaging DataSociety for Imaging Informatics in Medicine

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