John Seong wonmor

He started by drawing what nobody can see: electron clouds, orbitals and density maps, so that a student could look at quantum mechanics instead of just reading about it. One of those density maps ended up on the cover of a Nobel laureate's biography. Today he builds computers that ride in the cockpit and look out of the window.

"An AI computer that works in the cockpit." Orchestr Aerospace builds dual-use avionics, for civilian and defence aviation, from offices in Irvine, California, and Montréal. A density map is a computer showing a person what it knows about a scene they cannot see; a cockpit computer does the same with traffic, terrain and weather. Orchestr's research goes one step further: working out where the aircraft is from what its cameras see, so navigation keeps working when GPS is jammed or spoofed.

Flight Computer Mk. 1

The artificial horizon, terrain map and on-device POH copilot in one unit: an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano with a stereo camera pair, a thermal camera and a software-defined radio. CA$2,399 est. retail | est. Q2 2027 | pre-order

_{In its enclosure on the bench}	_{DeepVision synthetic vision with a traffic alert}
_{Live traffic callout over the airport diagram}	_{Thermal camera and stereo depth}
_{Map and PFD side by side}	_{Live ATC transcription on the device}
_{FAA charts: the KSNA airport diagram}	_{Link Jeb's Pro to the device with a QR code}
_{The handheld prototype}	_{Inside: the first prototype boards}

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DeepVision EVS Mk. 1 _{Thermal traffic and obstacle awareness, day or night, with laser ranging. CA$4,500 \| est. Q3–Q4 2027}	DeepBCI Mk. 1 _{A 16-channel EEG board that reads the pilot's intent and moves the FMS cursor, hands on the controls. CA$2,399 \| est. Q2 2027}	DeepSDR Mk. 1 _{Wideband software-defined radio, 1 MHz to 6 GHz, receive and transmit. CA$1,299 \| est. Q2 2027}
_{DeepVision: thermal view of an aircraft}	_{DeepBCI, expanded}	_{DeepSDR, expanded}
_{DeepVision prototype}	Piper Astrid _{The company aircraft, a sensor platform and testbed for ADS-B and computer-vision traffic detection}

Jeb's Horizon EFB on the approach into Palm Springs

Jeb's Horizon EFB
_{An electronic flight bag for iOS, Android and Mac with DeepVision synthetic vision: moving map, approach charts, weather, flight planning and live traffic.}
App Store | Google Play

Jeb's 3D Flight Bag
_{The same flight bag on 3D terrain, running in the browser with no install.}
Open it | Jeb's Sim Bag

_{Lined up on the runway}

_{Takeoff roll}

Jeb's Horizon EFB taxi clearance guidance at KSNA

_{Taxi clearance, typed as ATC said it}

Jeb's Horizon EFB magenta taxi path in synthetic vision

_{The taxi path in synthetic vision}

Jeb's Horizon EFB taxi path on the 3D map at KSNA

_{The same path on the 3D map}

Jeb's AI
_{A copilot you can talk to, trained on your own aircraft's handbook. It answers from the documents it was given; the pilot in command stays responsible.}

JebediahOS
_{The same app as a real-time Debian build on the Jetson: checklists, POH, PFD and maps in the cockpit.}

_{The long-term plan is autonomous flight in general aviation, and eventually a high-altitude spaceplane that flies above the Kármán line.}

June 2023 | WWDC23
_{His Swift Student Challenge playground turned the Heisenberg uncertainty principle into something you could play with, and it won. Apple invited him to Apple Park.}

July 2023 | Seoul National University
_{Undergraduate Research}
_{His DFT density map of the hydrogen molecule became the cover of Sir David Clary's biography of Walter Kohn (doi.org/10.1142/13806).}

2025 | Reach, then Orchestr
_{Software engineer at Reach, then founded Orchestr Aerospace in September and spoke at UCLA about replacing the autopilot with vision-based AI.}

2022 Making quantum mechanics visible: ElectronVisualized runs real DFT and draws electron density in 3D. 2024 Machines that read people: OpticALLY 3D Scan and a flight simulator flown with a brain–computer interface; flight training begins. 2026 In the air: the apps reach the App Store and Google Play, Piper Astrid carries cameras, the team reports from Kennedy Space Center for Artemis II, and Orchestr introduces Jeb's AI. Next: autonomous flight in general aviation, then above the Kármán line.

ElectronVisualized _{2022 – 2025} _{DFT electron density, rendered in the browser.} electronvisual.org	Atomizer AR _{His WWDC23 project: atoms and orbitals in AR on iPhone and Vision Pro, and a molecule workbench on Mac.} App Store \| YouTube	LCBC Dock, now MolDock _{Protein–ligand docking in one mobile app (AutoDock Vina).} App Store
Flight Sim + BCI ₂₀₂₄ _{A simulator flown through an OpenBCI headset.} YouTube	HAVIT _{A habit tracker that works like a social video app.} havit.space	Debugging Reality _{2021 – 2022} _{A short film with a VFX black hole and an original score.} Making-of

OpticALLY 3D Scan (2024 – 2025): "Scan 3D only using an iPhone." TrueDepth point clouds to a measured 3D head model with pose estimation, ICP registration and meshing. US patent pending (63/727,879). App Store | YouTube

_{Education: University of California, Irvine, undeclared undergraduate program (dropped out).}

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