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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SIGGRAPH✦HarvardXR✦Unreal Fest✦Unreal Day✦Venice Biennale✦AWE✦FMX✦NXT BLD✦PMRE✦Lincoln Center✦Autodesk University✦Raindance Immersive✦Park Avenue Armory✦Theatre Communications Group✦USITT✦NXT DEV✦NATEAC✦Opera America✦VRTO✦Columbia✦Princeton✦Cornell✦Yale✦GDC✦NVIDIA GTC✦SXSW✦MIT✦NYU✦Smithsonian✦ViveCon✦SVVR✦NYVR✦Laval Virtual✦AIA✦Syracuse University✦Worlds in Play✦North Bend Film Festival✦NY Tech Week✦SensAI✦XR Bootcamp✦Total Chaos✦Im-Arch✦5th Wall Forum✦Next Stage Immersive Summit✦RealTime Conference✦IEEE GEM✦Virtual Reality Strategy Conference✦ITEAC✦VR 20/20✦VenueConnect✦NYIT✦SIGGRAPH✦HarvardXR✦Unreal Fest✦Unreal Day✦Venice Biennale✦AWE✦FMX✦NXT BLD✦PMRE✦Lincoln Center✦Autodesk University✦Raindance Immersive✦Park Avenue Armory✦Theatre Communications Group✦USITT✦NXT DEV✦NATEAC✦Opera America✦VRTO✦Columbia✦Princeton✦Cornell✦Yale✦GDC✦NVIDIA GTC✦SXSW✦MIT✦NYU✦Smithsonian✦ViveCon✦SVVR✦NYVR✦Laval Virtual✦AIA✦Syracuse University✦Worlds in Play✦North Bend Film Festival✦NY Tech Week✦SensAI✦XR Bootcamp✦Total Chaos✦Im-Arch✦5th Wall Forum✦Next Stage Immersive Summit✦RealTime Conference✦IEEE GEM✦Virtual Reality Strategy Conference✦ITEAC✦VR 20/20✦VenueConnect✦NYIT✦

what's next

Find Alex in the wild.

Talks, workshops, judging, mentoring — where to catch him next.

Keynote Speaker

Keynote

PMRE 2026 — Photo + Media for Real Estate Conference

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

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Panelist

Virtual Theatre: Producing Live Theatre on Virtual Stages

SIGGRAPH 2026

Wed Jul 22, 1:00–1:45pm PT · Concourse Hall, Los Angeles

Instructor

Powered by Gaussian Splats: From World Models to 3D Interactive Worlds

SIGGRAPH 2026 — Hands-on Course

Mon Jul 20, 3:30–5:00pm PT · Concourse Hall, Los Angeles

Speaker

Stage Presence: Design and Testing of a Virtual Rehearsal Room Toolset

SIGGRAPH 2026

Sun Jul 19, 4:25–4:45pm PT · Room 403 B, Los Angeles

Judge + Mentor

Worlds in Action Hack [02-LA]

Sensai, with World Labs, PICO, and SIGGRAPH 2026

Jul 18–19, 2026 · MG Studio, Los Angeles

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.

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Fresh from the public repos

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

Blueprint Auto Layout

28

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

C++read more →

ue5-mcp

25

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

Markdown / Skillread more →

Claude Fleet

17

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

JavaScriptread more →

UE5 AndroidXR Template

13

A pre-configured UE5 VR Template for Android XR — package straight to a Galaxy XR headset.

Makefileread more →

Cascade Countdown

7

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

GDScriptread more →

MetaHuman → Godot

6

MetaHuman characters in stock Godot — look-dev sliders, full-body animation, and a stereo VR preview build.

GDScriptread more →

YouTube

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The Lab

Here's what's bubbling:

UnRealityKit Bridge

Collaborator beta — hardware-verified

Unreal Engine as the simulation brain. RealityKit as the renderer. The architecture ILM shipped, opened up.

UE→RenderMan Bridge

In development — renders end to end from the button

One button in the Unreal editor. Film-grade Pixar RenderMan on the other side.

Project Ion

Beta · 50+ TestFlight testers

Your Vision Pro is a projector now. Professional-grade projection-mapping previsualization — honest ambient simulation, real projector specs, and a full creative rig in your room.

Forage

Private beta — wishlist open

Fab's best friend. An AI-first scout and installer for the Unreal Engine packs you already own.

Unreal × visionOS

Ongoing engine contributions

The punch list for making Unreal Engine on Apple Vision Pro feel production-ready.

Pinchwork

In development

Universal OpenXR hand tracking. Built in Unreal first — designed for every headset, not just one.

The newsletter

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Class announcements. Upcoming events. Day one lab launches. Voting on new products and courses. One email every few weeks so you don't have to keep up with Alex's flutter of social media posts.