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Faculty + Staff

David
Brown
Adjunct Faculty

David Brown worked on the development of CAD software at General Motors for 28 years. He has been involved in Virtual Reality (VR) for the last 27 years at General Motors and US Army DEVCOM GVSC. He has developed VR software to run a Computer Aided Virtual Environment (CAVE), and CAVE to CAVE collaboration. He has helped develop US Army DEVCOM GVSC’s Virtual Environment capability for visualization vehicles early in the design life-cycle.

David Brown has been teaching at LTU as an Adjunct Professor for the last 15 years. He primarily teaches Computer Networks, and Computer Graphics. He has also taught Computer Animation, Computer Game Development, Introduction to Game Development, and Java. He has an interest in VR and Software development.

David Brown has been married for 32 years and has a 29 year old daughter. He grew up in Downtown Detroit, though he lived in Paris, France for a year when he was 8 years old. He enjoys movies and VR technology. He has recently started learning about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Language (ML).

» Document Viewer

Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.