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Short Bio
Varun Siddaraju is an XR+AI researcher focused on spatial intelligence, embodied interaction, and adaptive systems. He is building the Harmony framework for XR systems that perceive, remember, reason, and adapt across sessions, and the OpenSpatialAI direction that turns those ideas into developer-facing infrastructure.
Fast Facts
2 books and manuscripts: Apress mixed reality plus Small Teams, Strong Systems.
3+ peer-reviewed publications and research receipts across Sensors, IEEE, and ICDT.
Best Paper Award, ICDT 2018; VeeRuby listed by SiliconIndia among 10 Best AR/VR Startups in 2021.
Conducted AR/VR workshops and talks at University of Waterloo, VVCE, and PES College of Engineering, Mandya.
Elevate Unnati grant support (2021); recognition by Beyond Bengaluru and felicitation by SJCE STEP, along with VentureX and the Mysuru startup community.
Harmony research, OpenSpatialAI direction, and XR+AI lab prototypes.
Research Areas
Persistent world models, context-aware reasoning, and adaptive XR interfaces.
Gaze, head pose, hand interaction, posture, spatial context, and task state.
AI mediation that is auditable, opt-in, and understandable in embodied systems.
Useful Links
Receipts
SiliconIndia 10 Best AR/VR Startups 2021 ranking ยท VeeRuby profile
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