Here is a short walk of how I approached Spectacles 2021, came up with ideas, and built prototypes. A little background Snap is sending Spectacles 2021 to selected creatives. As far as I know, typically, it’s not paid partnership. You can apply to get the pair of glasses here: Spectacles by Snap Inc. * The Next Generation of Spectacles Create the world you want to see with Spectacles - our first pair of glasses that bring augmented reality to life…www.spectacles.com

Smart glasses is a fuzzy term. But to keep these rules more generic, I had to make sure that they apply to all currently available and hopefully some of the future devices. …

What’s Port 6? From their website: “Port 6 is a VC-backed augmented and virtual reality interaction laboratory based in Helsinki, Finland. Our novel technologies detect real touch events and simulate virtual touch events using wrist-based sensors and AI. …

This article was originally published on my personal website. Quite often, folks reach out to me asking how they can get into the VR/AR field. Usually, they’re design students or designers. I don’t believe that there is one short path to getting the title of XR designer. As I can…

There wouldn’t be a better sum up that provided by authors on the last page of the book: We did not write a “NUI for dummies” or imply that one could create a NUI by following a simple 10-step process. …

This article was originally published on my personal website. Today I want to tell you a story of how I decided on, developed and released my first VR experience. I have to admit it’s a basic app, but I learned quite a lot. There is no doubt that building quick…

This article was originally published on my personal website. Actually, I don’t mean that all architects are the best XR (AR, XR, VR, and other XRs) designers by default. What I mean here is that architects are well prepared when starting off with XR design. Let me explain. I have…

This article was originally published on my personal website. For quite a long time, all my immersive designs were only concepts, not related to any real product. Thanks to my full-time job, I didn’t have to worry about paying my bills and jumping on every gig. It gave me much…