This page is no longer updated, but you can trace my first 5 years of freelancing success in the timeline of highlights below.
Celebrating 5th anniversary of Improventions! Most businesses die off in five years, but Improventions just keep going and innovating new ways to improvise, invent and improve in top-of-the-world style.
May 2019
Launched CoachLancer.com to help new freelancers get started. Mentoring services are open for business!
Read more May 2019
Resurrected my old research archive. My decade (2003-2013) of doing academic and applied research is now summarized on a new subsite with research themes and publication/patent lists.
Read more March 2019
Making an immersive training simulator for the food & beverage industry as part of a bigger project. (A little bit top secret.)
January 2019
My student cleared his doctoral defense at University of Oulu, Finland!
November 2018
Made a splendid comeback in Upwork: ranked #1 freelancer in HTC Vive, HoloLens and Training Simulator development in addition to the usual Kinect and Orbbec development.
August 2018
Finished a comprehensive version of Kinect 2 based research prototype for studying augmented reality based teaching of traditional Indian dance styles.
June 2018
Started expanding the Improventions network for product development, marketing and sales.
May 2018
Set my Upwork profile offline due to too many invitations for the first time in the history of Improventions.
April 2018
Working once again on industrial mobile/wearable/AR solutions with the latest SDKs.
April 2018
Signed multiple startup consultancy contracts and NDAs. (It's going to be more or less top secret stuff from now on.)
March 2018
Started doing house calls for my Ph.D. students, just like a real doctor!
February 2018
My student cleared his doctoral defense at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan!
February 2018
Started an ambitious product development project on Orbbec sensors. To be announced later.
January 2018
Finished developing a prototype of a commercial construction crane training simulator for SteamVR (HTC Vive). The closest thing to my original research topic!
Read more December 2017
Enjoying the honor of being the first and only recognized Orbbec developer in both Upwork.com and Guru.com!
November 2017
Finished developing custom Orbbec 3D sensor based gesture recognition algorithms for a private American startup.
October 2017
Made a Kinect 2 based football stadium effect for an event by The Coca-Cola Company.
October 2017
Due to repeated requests, service offering expanded toward consultation (which is not a sign of getting old, I hope). Now even for new clients!
September 2017
Set a new record for project delivery in Upwork.com: 4 days of (crazy!) Kinect 2 application development from scratch.
September 2017
Made a multi-awarded Kinect 2 based research prototype for learning traditional Indian dances.
September 2017
Implemented a client's patent and developed a proof-of-concept mixed reality collection card game demo for HoloLens.
August 2017
Product development services expanded to HTC Vive.
August 2017
Developed a Kinect 2 data recorder program for an American medical device maker in good old C++.
August 2017
Prototyping services expanded to Microsoft HoloLens.
July 2017
Finished a Kinect 2 based nature edutainment installation for Osaka Big Bang theme park with LM3LABS.
July 2017
Celebrating Improventions third anniversary with 0 bug fix requests from clients. (Some record, huh?)
May 2017
Made a Kinect 2 based finger tracker and recorder program for assessing performance of University of Virginia's surgeons and medical students.
April 2017
Product development services expanded to Orbbec Astra and Persee 3D sensors.
March 2017
Made Shadow on the Wall Kinect effect for Agence 187, Paris, France.
February 2017
Finished a face tracking and realtime image processing app for Igrek Design's augmented reality 4D mirror.
February 2017
Managing insane amount of daily invitations to cool projects all around the globe.
January 2017
Celebrating 1 year of "Top rated" Kinect freelancing with 100% success rate in Upwork.com!
Read more December 2016
Made a Kinect 2 variant of the classic Hole in the Wall game for an event by Bosch.
November 2016
Finished making the world's fastest Kinect 2 game content creator (patent pending).
October 2016
Our Fishing Cash with Kinect installation in Japan produced 7000+ digital discount coupons in one month!
Read more August 2016
Started auto-rejecting new project requests due to too high demand by global freelance clients.
April 2016
Produced the first freelance patent.
February 2016
Awarded with "Top rated" status thanks to absolutely wonderful clients in Upwork.com!
Read more December 2015
My student cleared his doctoral defense at University of Oulu, Finland!
December 2015
Hit the milestone of US$10,000 on global freelance sites in less than 4 months, part-time.
August 2015
Made an extremely funny Kinect 2 based game for OPA Mall in Umeda, Osaka, with Igrek Design. Check out the video!
Read more July 2015
Made a Kinect 2 based kinesthetic learning research prototype for Chatham University (U.S.) and Unitec (New Zealand).
June 2015
Started freelancing to develop an exergaming platform for WorldX, a Californian exergaming startup.
May 2015
My student cleared his doctoral defense at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan!
May 2015
Finished developing Kyoto Balance Trainer, a Kinect 2 based balancing game for studying the risk of falling.
March 2015
Started volunteering to manage the technical development of Jidobox, a Singaporean startup. (Formal Co-Founder in 2015.)
December 2014
Started as consulting professor to supervise Ph.D. students at University of Oulu, Finland, and NAIST, Japan, on projection based augmented reality.
December 2014
Consultancy for Singaporean companies to improve organization of technical work, remote collaboration and strategic development.
November 2014
Developed the first internal product Visual Kinect de Bugger for recording and analysing raw data of Kinect 2.
October 2014
Improventions founded! First project started with a million yen innovation prize from Kyoto City in collaboration with Kyoto University's Electronic Health Records Unit.
May 2014