Schuyler
deVos
is a web developer and creative technologist based in New York City. His work utilizes new and emerging technologies as tools for speculative worldbuilding, digitally and physically.

Featured Work

MAMMON.exe

MAMMON.exe

Interactive Installation

MAMMON.exe is an interactive installation where supplicants can visit the altars of the gods of consumption and commune with them in an attempt to win their favor. A custom web app connects to an Unreal Engine project and interfaces with ChatGPT to generate unique, tailored experiences for each supplicant.

Forager

VR Film

Forager is a VR film where you live out the lifecycle of a mushroom. You start as a spore, grow into a mycelium network, and finally fruit into a mushroom. The film is a meditation on the interconnectedness of life and the beauty of decay, and uses volumetric time-lapse capture of growing mushrooms to render them as point clouds within Unreal Engine.

Wherever You Go

Short-form VR Experience

In 'Wherever You Go', participants are placed into a blank virtual world and tasked with exploring until they find a place they resonate with. The environment in 'Wherever You Go' grows and changes depending on the directions people travel through it, cycling between four interrelated biomes.

Department of Tenderness

Participatory Installation

The Department of Tenderness (DOT) is a speculative bureaucratic agency tasked with overseeing the maintenance and promotion of love and tenderness within New York City. As the DOT, we put on public events and installations designed to investigate the role of bureaucracy and love in urban design.

Stone Stories

AR Installation

'Stone Stories' is an augmented reality app where users start communal cairns in places of personal significance. Other people can come and add to the cairn or view things that have been placed there before, leading to impromptu public sculptures. MIT Reality Hack winner 2022.

Spiritwood

Spiritwood

AR Installation

An immersive installation exploring the intersection of nature and spirituality through interactive technology. Visitors can discover and interact with different types of nature spirits hidden around MIT's campus, leaving offerings to receive their blessings.

Additional Work

The Tower

The Tower

A web game made for Global Game Jam utilizing a text interface and visuals built with ThreeJS where the player climbs an abandoned tower in a dystopian AI future.

Curse of the Mummy 3D

Curse of the Mummy 3D

A game made for the Global Game Jam where you play as a mummy searching for pilfered organs.

Weather Band

Weather Band

Weather Band was a collaborative project at NYU where members got together to build and play instruments that utilized weather data.

The Shadow

The Shadow

A short horror game made for the Global Game Jam where players switch between dimensions to escape the shadow.

LetGoXR

LetGoXR

LetGoXR is an augmented reality app helping to visualize the process of letting go.

Rattrack

Rattrack

RATTRACK: The NYPD's official* database for tracking and identifying rodent criminals. *not official

Liquid Relationships

Liquid Relationships

Liquid Relationships is a touch-and-water-based interactive physical installation about forming connections.

Weather Journals

Weather Journals

Liquid Relationships is a touch-and-water-based interactive physical installation about forming connections.