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

Life update! I wore shoes on both feet for the first time today post-surgery! No more post-surgery shoe! Foot is sore and achey after, even with pretty minimal walking, but it's a big STEP! Also proud to do it with @meriamber.bsky.social in matching Book 1s ❤️

We've got a virtual SydAR meetup in under 24 hours! We've got Luke Turner on "Developing Effective UX for Hand-Tracked Applications", Graham Walker sharing AR job opportunities and myself catching everyone up on the latest AR news! Join us here: www.meetup.com/syd-ar/event...

Next SydAR meetup is on 19th June! Come join us over Zoom to chat about the MASSIVE amount of AR news, plus an exciting talk by Luke Turner and Graham Walker will be giving a rundown on current opportunities in AR 😀 https://www.meetup.com/syd-ar/events/300585156/

It's so exciting!!! 🎉 Meri is making physical copies of her Mental Health EP CD — they're a non-comedic set of songs she's written about mental health, professionally produced and they've come out sounding really really good! She'll be sending out CDs with bonus goodies too!

While there are many concerns with GPT & its advancements, it's lovely to see there are HUGE accessibility wins with GPT-4o. This tech could absolutely transform someone's life. Combine with smart glasses & this becomes a superpower. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwNUJ69RbwY

While it's still somewhat expensive, it's great to see the costs dropping on holographic displays! Looking Glass' new displays are approx $2k cheaper and look super promising! techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/l... #AugmentedReality #AR

Using AI on phones to alert when someone might be getting scammed is smart... but how long until scammers can socially engineer their way around it convincing the victim it's a false alarm? https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/google-will-use-gemini-to-detect-scams-during-calls/

Just crossposted this to Bluesky and Twitter at once with @mobile.yup.io.

Survived my bunion surgery! Now powered by my PHNX Suns Booker shirt as the anaesthetic wears off 😅 More pins and needles this time, so it might not be quite as heavy an anaesthetic as last time! Thank you to all for the well wishes on the various social medias 🙏

It was a fun gig!! Thank you @patrickcatanzariti.bsky.social 🧡🖤

@meriamber.bsky.social is absolutely smashing it at #freecomicbookday over at Campbelltown City Library today 😁 So much talent in one human!

Thanks to all who attended the first SydAR 😎 Aiming to find every AR enthusiast / dev / designer across Sydney & beyond to help bring more support, resources & more. Let's bring back a strong local community here for AR in 2024! Here's the replay: youtu.be/wFGK6qozjTs #sydar #spatialcomputing #ar

24 ideas for 2024. Our first public The Reality Crafters video is live and hopefully will get you thinking about your 2024 ambitions too 😁

It's crazy how far artificial intelligence has come since my talk at Web Directions Code 2017, and yet, still moved slower than hyped 😅 A lot of the worries in 2017 are only truly hitting their stride now — deepfakes, AI empowered with LOTS of data, career impacts... etc. #AI #tech

Handling times and dates isn't easy even in a world with NTP... Thank you Dave Mills for a contribution that changed the world more than many realise, rest in peace 🙏 arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024... #davemills #NTP #ripdavemills

The first online meetup for SydAR has been announced — if you're into AR/spatial computing or want to know more about it, come join us virtually on the 24th Jan 😁 www.meetup.com/syd-ar/event... #augmentedreality #sydAR #spatialcomputing #applevisionpro #holograms #smartglasses

New year, new video. If you're one of the kind folk supporting our Patreon on a paid tier - you get to see it before everyone else.

Bring on 2024! Wishing everyone the very best for the new year. I'm so lucky to get to start it with @meriamber.bsky.social, Blewp, Meowi and friends from around the world. P.S. It turns out Meowi enjoys the fireworks show, Blewp is not interested at all 😅