Community is essential. Feeling that sense of belonging, being with your "tribe"... it's so important. We're honoured that we get to organise one very special community here in Sydney - #SydAR

The highest ascent, the fastest run, the most epic journey and the most spectacular adventure... All started with one unremarkable step. Then another. And another. #practice #personalgrowth #selfimprovement #digitalwellness #realitycrafters

Dev Diner on Twitch is back Wednesday from around 6:30/7pm! Time to live code for AR glasses again! twitch.tv/devdiner

Excited to try coding for these Everysight Maverick AR glasses, as well as the Even Realities G2s! Gonna be some fun and curious AR prototyping in the coming months!

It's back.

For most of my life, I had my blood pressure taken at the doctor's office with no idea what it actually was, let alone what a good number or bad number was 😅

That's our cat Blewp. Blewp wants you to re-engage with reality and live your best life. He also wants scrootches. #RealityCrafters #Mindfulness #Doomscrolling #Disconnect #TechWellness

Only five days into our low buy year and we're already learning some lessons 😅

Meri and I put together a short clip... that ended up going for over 15 mins... on our first impressions of the Pickle 1 AR glasses after watching the promo video! 😎 www.instagram.com/reel/DS_53tG... #RealityCrafters #Tech #Pickle1 #AugmentedReality #AR

Yep. We've set ourselves up on that up and coming platform 😁

It was only very recently I discovered I don't need every single app on iOS home screens to be able to access them 😅 By very recently, I mean today. ... I learnt that today 😓

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I've learnt so much about SpO2 since starting our health journey with @realitycrafters.bsky.social - it's an easy one to track with tech! #healthoptimisation #healthjourney #realitycrafters

On this day, 15 years ago, I had a first date with the beautiful, talented, one of a kind girl who changed my life forever in the best way 💜

MASSIVE AR news today 😮 8th Wall will be shutting down next year - with platform access shutting down 28th Feb 2026 and all hosting being decommissioned a year later, after 28th Feb 2027. Maybe it's not all sad news though. #AugmentedReality #WebXR #WebAR

We've been learning all about the links between balancing tech, health & wellness. With everything we learn, we find even more to delve into. The mind always craves more learning with every bit you give it. Lots of positive health outcomes come from lifelong learning 🧠

The Even Realities G1s totally deserve THREE major design awards! They're my daily pair of glasses and always surprise people with how they look like a normal pair of glasses. If only they had speakers and/or a camera and they'd be perfect.

Oh look, free quality PDF downloads and all you need to do is join our Discord (discord.gg/zjahbb2CdU) and join our Patreon as a Luminary (patreon.com/realitycraft...) 🙏 Join us and craft your reality alongside us! #RealityCrafters

Tomorrow is the day! 🌏✨ Join me for SydAR: SXSW Sydney Edition — where Sydney’s vibrant AR community comes together to celebrate creativity and innovation!

Your mental health matters. Today on #WorldMentalHealthDay2025, I get to share something truly special: my wife Meri's brand new Mental Health EP — her first release in 8 years. This isn’t just another CD. It’s three heartfelt, original tracks on an important topic.

The Mental Health EP is out TOMORROW!!! You can pre-order a digital copy here to hear it the moment it appears - meriamber.bandcamp.com/album/mental... It has three fantastic original songs by Meri about mental health, all three have been professionally produced and sound phenomenal!!!

That's the new me right there. No hat! No glasses! A fresh start! At least that's the start of each day that most don't see. Just as raw and full of potential as my day is, that's the boundless potential of The Reality Crafters from this moment. You'll be hearing a lot more from us this month. ⚜️⚓️🕰

Meri literally debuted THIRTEEN music videos yesterday on Twitch - one for every 50 gift subs on her channel. Despite that, she still has EIGHT MORE for viewers to redeem today!!! She is superhuman... it's also her STREAMVERSARY CELEBRATION TODAY! twitch.tv/meriamber

Spread the word! 🚀 SydAR: SXSW Sydney Edition is on Mon Oct 13, 3:15 - 5pm @ Tumbalong Park (Ideas Dome, by The Growth Distillery). Free for all! No SXSW Sydney pass needed! Demo your AR project or pitch a lightning talk. DM me! Let’s show off Sydney’s AR talent ✨ #sxswsydney

Listening to Meri as she's singing and performing for a video at the moment and just wanted to remind everyone - she's phenomenal and I'm incredibly proud to have her as my wife ❤️ P.S. You should also join her Patreon if you haven't already - https://patreon.com/meriamber

I've got the demo list updated for SydAR this Wednesday — so far we've got an Apple Vision Pro, Snap Spectacles, INMO GO 2 and Tilt Five demos running from 6pm! Plus a cool spatial mapping demo from EyeJack! https://www.meetup.com/syd-ar/events/305342688 #AugmentedReality

I'm pretty damn excited about Pebble watches coming back. https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back

Apple Smart Glasses cancelled! *insert shocked face that isn't really shocked though* Never fear. They're not talking about the Apple Vision Pro. 9to5mac.com/2025/01/31/a... #augmentedreality

Don't worry everyone, I've got my daughter's bedtime music sorted now. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=qJInxku1HJs

For anyone wondering how our side projects and all are going, 2024 was quite an unexpected series of curveballs 😅

Our first video covers The Reality Crafter system and mindset — alongside why we've been building The Reality Crafters overall. We're aiming to help people have a healthier relationship with tech and build tech creations that are better for people. https://youtu.be/2lXyc7P4WiY?si=uuhs7wpEBTV_VLHo

Doom running in a PDF file brings up so many questions around security and integrity of a PDF when it can do all of this...

These keep the display off the lens. I'm not sure how easy it'd be to see that display though, that part is blurry to my vision when I look up there? https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/5/24334030/halliday-smart-glasses-ai-tiny-display-frame-availability-price-ces #smartglasses #AR #AugmentedReality

So much to be grateful for in 2024 🙏✨ 🩹2 surgery recoveries 👶A beautiful baby daughter ❤️15 years with Meri ⚓Reality Crafters BTS 🤫 🌏Private iOS beta of my AR game GeoGlitched 🤝Founded SydAR 📻The team I lead at Nova grew so much 🪄Learnt magic from new magician friends

I can't wait to see this tech enabling holographic reproductions of sports in AR. I want to watch a full Phoenix Suns game or Sydney Kings game in AR from all angles! https://www.visoric.com/en/gaussian-splatting-the-future-of-3d-visualization #AugmentedReality #AR #GaussianSplatting

DIY AR glasses are getting smaller and cooler! This runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vitsinPbwHI Reminds me I really should try to get my DIY AR headset working some day, I got stuck with the display I received just not working 😅 #augmentedreality #AR #smartglasses

Put the 26th Feb in your calendars — we've got our first #SydAR event for 2025 up! https://www.meetup.com/syd-ar/events/305342688/ We'll finalise things as the date gets closer 😁 If you'd like to demo an AR creation on the night, get in touch! #AR #AugmentedReality

I'm pretty keen to try out the INMO Go 2, excited for the upcoming year of maybe... just maybe... getting the format of AR glasses with a display I've been dreaming of... Curious if INMO Go 2 and the like will be it. https://www.reddit.com/r/augmentedreality/s/nsGlpFTTkU

We've got lots more workventuring and memories to create in 2025 too as a part of The Reality Crafters ✨

Did you know visionOS Day Sydney is this Friday? It's going to be an AR event not to be missed ✨ Join the waitlist at the link! How good is it that there are AR events in Sydney AND the community is so keen that there's a waitlist? https://events.humanitix.com/copy-of-aussie-visionos-day-sydney

YouTube Music says I was the life of the party in 2024. I believe this is my 10 week old daughter's influence and insistance on dance parties at all hours.

This is like an alternate reality David Tennant. I appreciate his ability to walk over furniture so casually.

New XREAL AR headset to be revealed December 5th! I was about to buy their most recent headset and am relieved I held out for a bit 😅 More details coming in just under 6 hours apparently! https://www.reddit.com/r/augmentedreality/s/B2ed4lXEQu #AugmentedReality #XREAL

Hosting a web page within a Bluesky post... crazy fascinating! I appreciate the in depth details on how they did it too. https://danielmangum.com/posts/this-website-is-hosted-on-bluesky/

Instead of shipping their new product this month, the Spacetop AR Laptop was suddenly cancelled. For those who hadn't seen it — it was a laptop with no screen. The screen was an augmented reality headset. It makes a whole lot of sense upon reflection. www.cnet.com/tech/computi... #AR #ARnews

Si! It has changed team mindset for certain. But I also think @espo.bsky.social makes good points on the point differential being risky causing player injuries in his article - I wonder if there's a way to do point differential more safely in basketball? gophnx.com/emirates-cup...

@daughterofkew.bsky.social Welcome to the app in which claims to provide an eternal blue sky.

Ooooo the VR/XR community has started to grow here on Bluesky! I may need to login more often now 😅 #VR #XR #AR

How much of this energy usage by AI is going towards services that are actually making people's lives easier and better? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/02/google-ai-emissions

Here's Luke Turner's presentation on Developing Effective UX for Hand-Tracked Applications from #SydAR yesterday! Great talk with quite a few insights shared 😊 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P7mdPt2vxs #augmentedreality #AR #spatialcomputing #VR