Technical Director · Creative Technologist
Studio Daito Manabe · GitHub admin for perfume-dev · Tokyo

I design and build the technical systems behind realtime visual, audio, spatial, and interactive work — from stage production and MR to macOS, Metal, and FPGA tooling.

A central Technical Director credit is the Rio Olympic Closing Ceremony — Tokyo 2020 Presentation (2016) — technical direction and implementation of visual expressions using augmented reality and real-time computer graphics for the Tokyo 2020 Flag Handover Ceremony.

Studio & archive · Selected works · All repositories

GitHub is the engineering record. Personal information and art documentation live on daito.ws.

• Selected Technical Direction — production credits and technical responsibilities
• Current Engineering — public systems I am actively developing
• All repositories — experiments, tools, research, and archived work

• Rio Olympic Closing Ceremony — Tokyo 2020 Presentation (2016) — Technical direction and implementation of visual expressions using augmented reality and real-time computer graphics for the Tokyo 2020 Flag Handover Ceremony.
• Perfume 25th & 20th Anniversary Live Performance “IMA IMA IMA” — Creative Direction, Technical Direction, sound-effect composition, point-cloud effect system development, and MultiCam Morphing system development.
• Perfume Disco-Graphy — Planning, Creative Direction, Technical Direction, laser and lighting design, and sound-effect design.
• Illuminated Velocity — Suzuka Circuit’s Light Installation — Creative Direction, Technical Direction, Music Direction, composition, sound design, programming, and race / 3D data creation.

The full archive contains the detailed credits, collaborators, and media for these and other projects.

• gaze-effect — Local macOS camera eye-contact effect, with live preview and offline video rendering.
• syphon26 — From-scratch Metal-native frame sharing for Swift, AppKit, IOSurface, and explicit GPU synchronization.
• glic-metal — Realtime GLIC image and codec-glitch processing with Metal and VideoToolbox.
• link-osc-app — Ableton Link / audio-input analysis for audio-reactive visuals, streamed over OSC.
• vivado-mac-cli — Headless AMD Vivado on Apple Silicon through Virtualization.framework and Rosetta 2.
• nys12-journey — Offline stereo-to-NYS spatial renderer with speaker outputs, monitor preview, synchronized video, and provenance sidecars.

Realtime media systems · macOS / Swift / Metal · live audio analysis and OSC · spatial audio · FPGA and hardware tools · vision and interaction

Most repositories are works in progress. Check each README for its current status, platform requirements, and license.