elkraneo

On a mission to make immersive technology work for everyone

Oye, I'm Cristian (without h), a Berlin-based engineer, technical artist, and founder. I build spatial computing experiences on Apple platforms, and I make sure they work for everyone, including users who navigate the world differently.

I co-founded Realitycheck with Roxana Nagy. Together we shipped The Green Spurt, an accessible multiplayer escape room for Apple Vision Pro (AWE Auggie Awards finalist), and a Vision Pro experience for TEDxBaiaMare.

Alongside that, I ship the OpenUSD developer tools Apple developers need but Apple hasn't built—Gantry (a commercial USD scene converter on the App Store, replacing Apple's never-out-of-beta Reality Converter), Preflight (an agentic OpenUSD debugger for macOS), and the upcoming OpenUSDKit framework (🤐). I also work on agentic engineering inside the Apple toolchain—Smith Tools, Step Into Vision MCP, sbsift / spmsift—and contribute actively to the wider agentic Swift ecosystem.

Before all this, I led spatial computing practices, built BLE health devices that were recognized at CES and Red Dot, shipped an automotive AI voice assistant acknowledged by Frost & Sullivan, and created interactive work at Ogilvy and MRM//McCann. assistant recognized by Frost & Sullivan, and created interactive work at Ogilvy and MRM//McCann.

20+ years shipping across Apple platforms. Conference speaker. Workshop runner. Community builder. I run Step Into Vision office hours for the EMEA spatial computing community.

Are you interested in commissioning work, organising a workshop, or giving a talk? Let's connect.