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Mike Tucker is an interactive director, designer, and developer who has been working at Magic Leap for the past 5 years. I was inspired by his spatial computing projects and even more so after his lecture at EYEO. I am personally very interested in the fields of AR and VR and how they can change the human experience. While he started his career with graphic design, he seems to be more interested in combining music with interactive digital environments. The project he presented at EYEO 2019: Tonandi, was especially interesting to me because of all the different senses incorporated into it. Including sight, sound, and motion, it is amazing how immersive digital environments can be designed nowadays. The lecture itself was effective in showing the actual experience of using the headset Magic Leap designed. Tucker presented videos showing live demos of the VR projects and how the user can interact with the virtual environment. The videos are also shot from a first-person perspective so the viewer can see the project as if they are using the VR headset themselves.