Technical Insight for Complex AR/VR Disputes
Quandary Peak helps attorneys and business leaders understand immersive systems, providing precise analysis of XR platforms, real-time rendering, tracking systems, and spatial computing to support litigation strategy.
As immersive technologies advance, disputes involving augmented, virtual, and mixed reality systems are becoming more technically challenging. Legal teams, product counsel, and investors may need specialized expertise to assess reliability, safety, system behavior, or originality. Quandary Peak examines how these systems actually operate, identifies technically significant issues, and develops findings that can support claims, defenses, and strategic decisions.
Our software and technology experts examine immersive systems at the code, sensor, hardware, and rendering levels to determine whether observed behavior aligns with technical claims. Our analysis supports litigation, regulatory matters, technical due diligence, and patent evaluation.
Analyze the XR technology stack, from HMD hardware and sensors to operating systems, SDKs, and rendering pipelines.
Assess tracking algorithms, scene construction, latency, and rendering performance to understand system behavior in real-world environments.
Examine how hardware and software components interact to identify interoperability issues, integration failures, and other technical limitations.
Evaluate usability, system reliability, safety, and technical performance to determine whether an XR system behaves as intended.
Translate complex technical findings into clear, well-supported opinions for expert reports, depositions, court proceedings, and arbitration.
Develop technical documentation that connects source code, system behavior, and other findings to disputed allegations or patent claims.
Every AR/VR dispute presents a different technical question. Our experts identify the issues that matter most, helping legal teams develop well-supported positions grounded in objective evidence.
Quandary Peak has supported product liability and intellectual property matters involving AR/VR/XR systems, head-mounted displays, immersive reality platforms, haptics integration, and spatial computing frameworks.
Our experts have analyzed real-time rendering and tracking performance of XR systems to determine the root cause of system failures, delivering objective evidence that guided litigation strategy and expert testimony.
Put Our Experience to Work
Disputes involving AR/VR/XR matters often hinge on subtle system behaviors that can materially affect how claims and evidence are understood. Precise evaluation of hardware, software, and tracking performance helps legal teams identify consequential issues early.
AR/VR systems depend on tightly integrated hardware and software, making the source of performance issues or failures difficult to isolate.
Rapidly changing XR platforms can leave design records, specifications, and technical documentation incomplete or open to interpretation.
Internal engineers may understand the product deeply, but litigation requires independent analysis that can withstand scrutiny and clearly support expert opinions.
Misunderstanding system behavior, tracking performance, or implementation details can weaken claims, complicate strategy, and obscure important evidence.
Early technical analysis helps legal teams identify the issues that matter, test assumptions against the evidence, and build strategy on a more reliable understanding of the technology.
AR/VR/XR disputes often turn on specialized concepts unfamiliar outside immersive technology development. Tracking systems, rendering pipelines, haptic feedback, source code, and hardware-software interactions can become significant when evaluating how a system was designed and implemented.
For legal teams, understanding these concepts can help frame discovery, evaluate claims, identify relevant evidence, and determine where expert analysis is needed. These questions connect the underlying technology to issues that may arise during litigation.
An AR/VR expert witness can examine source code, system architecture, technical documentation, device data, and system behavior to distinguish assumptions from evidence and translate complex findings into opinions that courts and counsel can understand.
Award-winning computer scientist and software engineer Dr. Iman Sadeghi specializes in delivering expert reports, declarations, and testimony as well as source code analysis for software litigation. He has been published in prestigious peer-reviewed scientific journals and conferences and brings a wealth of experience from his tenure at tech giants such as Google, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and ILM.
Joshua is a computer engineer and expert witness with 25+ years of analyzing complex software systems across embedded devices, networking, multimedia, cloud platforms, and medical technologies. He has supported 100+ litigation matters through technical investigations, source code analysis, and expert testimony.
Minh is a computer scientist, software engineer, and entrepreneur, backed by a robust educational background. Experienced in building and operating scalable, high-availability, distributed infrastructures, and familiar with the latest AI/ML technologies, he is a valuable asset at the intersection of computer science and legal contexts.