L.A.’s Willy Wonka? The ‘father’ of the Xbox has turned to chocolate | Gaming

There are technological and biological wonders inside the sleek San Gabriel offices of Seamus Blackley, which are evasively named — intentionally so — Pacific Light & Hologram.

Best known as the creator of Microsoft’s Xbox video game console, Blackley can’t talk about his latest computer work — he’ll discuss it only under a “Friend-D-A,” a playful twist on a nondisclosure agreement. But he can chat about the 1970s Dodge camper one sees when entering the building.

Complete with chalkboard-like scientific diagrams, the vehicle once belonged to Richard Feynman, the late Nobel Prize-winning Caltech physicist. Blackley has long been campaigning to get the camper into the Smithsonian.

And he can share details about the mechanical Acrocanthosaurus jaw that he and his team created for a television special. The model, which aimed to simulate the brute force of a…more

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