Chauncey Frend is a sr. research support staff for VR/AR technologies at Indiana University’s (IU) UITS Advanced Visualization Laboratory. He implements and supports the broad needs of IU researchers who utilize VR/AR tools within their project scope. Frend is also the founder of CYUTIL (http://www.cyutil.io/), a technology company dedicated to advancing environmental feedback and automation applications of VR/AR platforms.  He is the inventor of the cy.PIPES control platform (Patent No. 62/295,698 “Physical Device interface for Virtual Reality System”).  Frend is a graduate of IU’s School of Informatics and Computing.