Alex CoulombePresents

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Building worlds you can step inside.

Architect turned XR-chitect. 10+ yrs of running Agile Lens, 16+ yrs of immersive design across the built environment, live theatre, and emerging technology. Unreal Engine Gold Authorized Instructor.
Now teaching machines to build alongside us.

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Fresh from the Lab

Less friction. More making.

Playable XR, smaller checkouts, readable GPU captures, and a second chance for a lost recording.

Inside the lab →

XR / PLAYABLE PREVIEW

An entire XR starting point.

Hands, controllers, comfortable movement and a power puzzle. Watch UOXR in 59 seconds, then try the Android preview.

Watch the simulator tour →

UNREAL / OPEN SOURCE

A lighter Unreal checkout.

ue-reseed keeps engine template content out of your Git history and restores it from your local Unreal installation. Less repository baggage, more room to build.

Meet ue-reseed →

GRAPHICS / DEVELOPER TOOLS

Give GPU captures a voice.

gputrace turns Xcode GPU captures into information you can inspect from the command line. A closer look at what the renderer is actually doing.

Explore gputrace →

MAC / RECOVERY

The recording that got away.

Found Footage looks for recoverable macOS screen recordings after the system reports they couldn't be saved. Built for the demo you really don't want to perform twice.

Find your footage →

what's next

Upcoming hellos.

A few places we can cross paths this fall. Come say hello — I’d love to hear what you’re building.

Panelist

Video Games and Monetizing Film IP in Different Ways

MIA | Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo — European Investment Hub

Tue Oct 20, 2026, 6:00pm CEST · Rome, Italy

Title is provisional. Part of MIA's new European Investment Hub, on how game and film IP grows into a cross-media business.

Attending

Android Dev Summit

Google

Oct 28–29, 2026 · Google's Bay View campus, Mountain View, CA

Keynote Speaker

Architect to XR-chitect: The Best Career Advice I Ever Ignored

PMRE 2026 — Photo + Media for Real Estate Conference

Nov 17–19, 2026 · Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas

My talk: November 19, 11 a.m.–noon PST.

Host · Pitch Competition

Pitch Session — Startups

UnitedXR Europe 2026

Tue Dec 8, 2026, 11:15am–1:05pm CET · Maison de la Poste, Brussels, Belgium

Hosting the startup pitch competition on the Pitch Stage. Finalists are announced Oct 15; the winner is named Dec 9.

recently

Attending · with PICO

Augmented Enterprise Summit (AES)

Augmented Enterprise Summit 2026

Oct 13–15, 2026 · Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, GA

I'll be there in partnership with PICO.

Attending

Architecture in Perspective: Craft (re)Focused

ASAI — American Society of Architectural Illustrators

Oct 7–9, 2026 · AIA Global Campus, Washington, DC

Attending

Meta Connect 2026

Meta

Sep 23–24, 2026 · Meta HQ, Menlo Park, CA

Guest Panelist

Human Spatial Computing: Ethics, Privacy + Public Data

NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Integrated Design & Media

Mon Sep 21, 2026, 4:00–4:40pm ET · Virtual (Zoom)

Three passions, one through-line

How can I make digital space feel visceral and alive?

01 / ENGINES

Unreal & Godot & even ThreeJS, let's go further than the documentation

Engine-level improvements for Vision Pro, Godot looking gorgeous at 90 fps with custom source code, WebXR and WebGPU doing the impossible. MetaHumans up close & virtual like you've never seen them before. When a plugin says "Experimental," the real fun begins.

02 / AI

Agents that ship real work. No tech for tech's sake.

A fleet of machines at Agile Lens running AI agents around the clock without breaking the bank. Field manuals so agents drive Unreal without crashing it. Pipelines where the overnight build greets you with a new TestFlight-approved app waiting on device by morning.

03 / LIVE VR

Theatre is the original VR

Live actors performing in headsets since 2018. Worked on Venice Biennale's first global live VR show, an annual Christmas Carol in VR, mixed reality theatre with an actor surrounded by digital assets, and published SIGGRAPH papers on all of it.

Training for companies & studios

Bring your whole team. We'll build the curriculum.

Custom curricula bundled from 50+ ready-to-teach classes — the same live training delivered to Epic Games' key partners, broadcast teams, and AAA studios. Remote or on-site, cloud workstations available, pricing scoped to your team.

Get a team quote →

Open tools. Real problems solved.

Real tools built for Agile Lens, now available to you.

Unreal Custodian

69

Reclaim the build caches your Unreal projects quietly hoard — without touching anything you authored.

Pythonread more →

reseed

1

Keep Unreal's template content out of your git repo, and put it back on demand from your own engine install.

Pythonread more →

Blueprint Anti-Pasta

44

Pin-aware auto-layout for Unreal Blueprint graphs. Or as it should be called: ANTI-PASTA.

C++read more →

ue5-mcp

37

A field manual for AI agents driving Unreal Engine 5 through MCP.

Markdown / Skillread more →

Cascade Countdown

10

A hand-tracked physics arcade game for Apple Vision Pro, built on Godot. Live on TestFlight.

GDScriptread more →

Claude Fleet

22

Coordinate a fleet of computers running Claude Code through git-based messaging.

JavaScriptread more →

The Lab

A few things I'm building.

UnRealityKit Bridge

Collaborator beta — hardware-verified

Unreal Engine as the simulation brain. RealityKit as the renderer. The hybrid architecture Unity proved out with PolySpatial — open for Unreal.

Apple Vision Pro + OpenXR

Ongoing engine contributions

The engine-level work behind Unreal on Apple Vision Pro over OpenXR — punch-list fixes today, Lumen and Nanite research pushing further.

Video QA Workbench

Design-partner preview · local-first

Stop scrubbing for proof. Review the whole render with evidence.

SceneAudit

Unreal Engine plugin · contact for access

Measure the gap your viewport hides.

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