Chuck Hoover
Senior Director of Research Development, Meta Reality Labs | Turning AI research into shippable products.
- Role
- Board Member at Pittsburgh Technology Council
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Chuck Hoover
Director of Research Development at Meta.I lead the teams and strategy behind Codec Avatars — Meta’s most ambitious bet on the future of human presence in VR and AR. My work sits at the intersection of research, product, and organizational design: turning cutting-edge AI, computer vision, and machine learning into shipped, scalable, world-class experiences.Over 23 years, I’ve built and led R&D organizations that take ideas from whiteboard to production, across digital products, games, AR/VR platforms, and deep-tech research. I’ve led key partnerships with and delivered for Disney, Google, Sony, Apple, and Microsoft, and now focus on building the teams, processes, and strategy that let frontier research become real products used by millions.Experience Highlights/Built and led the research development organization for Codec Avatars at Meta Reality Labs Research, aligning frontier AI, computer vision, and ML research with product strategy to deliver scalable, production-grade AR/VR systems./Owned and deployed over $ 2billion in R&D investment. Translating long-horizon research programs into concrete product roadmaps and operational plans./Produced more then 57+ software and hardware titles from concept to shipment across consumer and enterprise platforms. Spanning AR/VR, Games, and interactive theme park attractions./Scaled teams and processes at Schell Games (from 6-150) and Meta (from 25•••00) focusing on speed of iteration and minimizing bureaucracy. Outside of Meta, I’m the founder of the GLW Conference, an 11 time speaker and the Game Developers Conference, and an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where I teach Production and Leadership to the next generation.
Experience
Board Member
Aug 2019 — Present · Pittsburgh, PA, US
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
Masters, Entertainment Technology
Virginia Tech
Masters, Architecture
Skills
- Mmo
- Social Games
- Mobile Games
- 3d Modeling
- Unity3d
- Gameplay
- Agile
- 3d
- Computer Games
- Video Games
- Game Design
- Console
- Xbox 360
- Agile Project Management
- Agile Methodologies
- Mentoring
- Budgets
- Flash
- Budgeting
- Video Game Development
- Multiplayer
- Casual Games
- Scrum
- Photoshop
- Hiring
- Perforce
- Level Design
- Game Development
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