Hi Everyone! I am very excited to be joining the Steemit community.
My name is Jeffrey Breugelmans, and I am a Dutch native (which explains the name) living in Los Angeles. I moved to the US in 2010 to pursue a doctorate at Northeastern University in Boston, where I studied Human Factors Engineering and focused my research on the computer accessibility issues faced by those who experience physical disability. Empathy is probably my most defining quality, so although I am an engineer I never fail to keep the most vital component of any technology in mind: the person using it! You can verify me and learn more about my research here.
I am currently working as Chief Interaction Designer at a VR startup called Second Studio and have my own side business as a SketchUp tutor and freelancer. You can also verify me and learn a bit more about my work by checking out www.sketchupla.com. I was a snowboard instructor in my teens and I really enjoyed my teaching responsibilities at University, so this has turned out to be a great opportunity for me to get to know people in LA and stay in touch with my own internal Sensei.
I plan to use Steemit as a way to share my thoughts about developments in VR, Healthcare Technology, 3D modeling, Rendering techniques, SketchUp and the many other things in life that fascinate me. I am not sure how much I should share in my first post, so I will not go on for too long. Please take a moment to check out the links I embedded if you want to learn more about my work and experience.
I hope you enjoyed my introduction, and if you have any questions or comments, please let me know! I always aim to respond asap.
Thank you,
Jeff
Hey Jeffrey! Welcome to steemit community! We hope you're going to enjoy it. Good luck with your research and we will be glad to follow it.
Keep growing,
@extremeromance
Thanks for the great work @mobbs! You've got yourself a new follower :)
Hello @mobbs let me welcome you to steemit, this is an awesome experience hope you will like it, you have been followed, kindly follow back @joendegz
Hey Jeffery, how are you doing? It's great to have you here with us in the Steemit community, i hope you feel welcomed. It is great to see you can join the community, looking forward to reading your post soon
Nice to meet you, @jbreugelmans! Welcome to the Steemit Community, wish you good luck and a good start, ive send you a small tip and followed you, hope you have an amazing day! :)
Thank you @vlone99. I will be sure to check out your posts as well!
Hello, @Jbreugelmans, Let me welcome you to Steemit. Hope you gonna have fun with our community. Feel free to follow me @rightuppercorner Have a great time @rightuppercorner
Welcome Jeffrey!
I love your VR headset! is it a HTC Vive, right?
Can't wait to see what you do
Upvoted and followed!
Thanks! Yes, that's a Vive. I have the new Windows + Acer MR Dev Kit too, but haven't actually had a chance to test it out yet. I see you are in computer engineering and data science, do you have any experience with VR yet? Being Dutch, I'm a fanatic football player too, although it's been hard to be proud of our accomplishments lately :)
Not yet, but I love VR, I'm a frustrated game developed haha
Please don't talk about football, we're so bad right now! :D
Thanks for your answer, you're so kind.
Sorry to see about the 0-0 draw today! Do you think there is a chance Argentina might not qualify for the 2018 WC? The Netherlands are in a seriously depressing third place in our qualifying group, so chances are we will miss two big tournaments in a row, already having missed the Euros last year. As a recent WC finalist and semi-finalist (no hard feelings :P), that is just too embarrassing for words..
I hope that will be qualify, but it is difficult and next tuesday is the last match, so we need to win no matter what. If we win the next match we will qualify to the WC independently of the others results. We have the best players in the world but not the best team... so cross fingers and I will love to play the final cup against The Netherlands! :D
@favcau Hello let me welcome you to steemit, this is an awesome experience hope you will like it, you have been followed, kindly follow back @joendegz
Thanks
Congratulations @jbreugelmans!
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Hi @arcange, that's a fun surprise. Thanks for letting me know!
@jbreugelmans welcome . Have fun here with Steemians
Thank you @grace44! It's been a blast so far :)
@jbreugelmans Must be really cool to watch your work come to life, I'm sure working in the tech industry has long hours. Welcome to steemit.
Hi Jeffrey... Nice to meet you... This is a nice intro post... Your writing plan for steemit sounds really interesting... I hope you will do great over here as a steemian... Follow Me @onority
Thank you @onority! I will be sure to check out your channel
You are most welcome.... :)
Very nice completion of post! @jbreugelmans
Thank you very much!
It's nice to have you here,bro. I'm equally excited to meet you. Welcome
welcome
my new roomates a 3-d enviornment artist. i told him to join steemit
Thank you. I think that's a great idea, the more the merrier! Plus it could be a great way for him to promote his work and get valuable feedback from the community.
Welcome to steemit community @jbreugelmans, looking into your upcoming blogs.
Followed you. Best regards, @robin-ho
Welcome to the platform I cant offer you much but I gave you an upvote and a follow.
welcome to steemit!! you got a new follower
Hello @normalbro let me welcome you to steemit, this is an awesome experience hope you will like it, you have been followed, kindly follow back @joendegz
Welcome to Steemit!
Welcome to steemit @jbreugelmans. You will do great here
Thanks everyone for the warm welcome!
Wellcome Jeff, we are happy to have you here on steemit :D
If you need any help or anything don't hesitate to ask!
Please check my Introduction post as well :)
Welcome
Hello @jbreugelmans let me welcome you to steemit, this is an awesome experience hope you will like it, you have been followed, kindly follow back @joendegz
Hey! Welcome to Steemit. Loved the post. Looking forward to more content! Hope you have a good time.
Welcome to Steemit!
I hope you'll have a great time here! :)
Hello and welcome to Steemit! This is a great expanding community very glad you decided to join, best of luck!! Fallow my channel if you wish @darius1993
you are excellent, help me win followers
welcome are you charming
Hi @jose24 thank you very much for the Resteem! You have yourself a new follower as well :)
Hi Jeff nice to meat you .Your story resonate with me I will follow you.
Hi @jbreugelmans. Cool blog. How's the start up going? I'd like to know more about the virtual realm. All the best :) @john-unasa
Hi @john-unasa, thanks for the kind comment. The startup is going... well, like a startup :) hard work, big dreams, fierce competition, but all worth it! Be the wave :)
Love your story. Will follow to keep it!
Thank you @leonmorton! I will try to set up a regular schedule to keep on posting
Over 400,000 members on Steemit now, I hope they all see your great posts also.
it's great to have you here, upvoted and steemed and followed
Welcome to Steemit, it's great to have you here. Enjoy the awesome Steemit community. Look forward to seeing your work. Steem On.
welcome to Steemit! I like your introduction and especially what you are working for! I have followed you and upvoted your post. Can't wait to see what your thoughts are :)
Hello Jeffrey!! Your work sounds fascinating. I'm interested in the intersection between the humanities and tech, particularly interactive mediums like videogames, VR and AR. Hope to see more of you around :)