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 Reality Crafters
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Thank you to everyone who has attended SydAR so far, you've helped make it what it is today. Thank you to Everysight for giving us a pair of Maverick Sport AR glasses to give away as a door prize! Finally, thank you to The Onset for being incredible hosts last night - it was a perfect venue. Toby and Clara were so generous and lovely. We can't wait for the next one!
That was followed by Muhammad Irfan from Minimis, showing the world's first standalone AR smart glasses engineered in Sydney! We were so keen to finally try out their Prototype 5, and it was unbelievably exciting to see the progress they've made! We managed to get a few photos of us trying these out.
We were lucky enough to have Sean Simon and William Major from Stickshift Entertainment share "Plonk! A 4D Puzzle", a Mixed Reality game where you can bend time that has some of the most clever UX design we've seen.
For us, it's also rewarding to share the magic that technology can bring. People's faces lit up when they tried out the Tilt Five holographic board games, the Everysight Maverick Sport glasses, the Meta Quest 3, Samsung Galaxy XR, Even Realities G2, INMO Go 2... all different forms of this magic that inspires in different ways. It's also nice to see we're not the only ones so excited by this tech, and each meetup, slowly but surely, we find even more likeminded people to join our excitement.
It's a community of Augmented Reality enthusiasts, developers, designers, students... people from all walks of life. They all come together to try out AR demos and meet other likeminded humans.
However, you want to be able to assess it based on its true merits, properly understanding both its strengths and weaknesses, knowing exactly how it may help or hinder your goals. Untangling your biases is a crucial step.
Or even a number of other things not covered in this post (that we shall cover in the future).
It is important to note, that the technology you're thinking of using to reach your goals may very well meet your expectations and be fit for its purpose.
Thus, an important part of the process is understanding where your initial assumptions come from and why they may lead you astray.
This may be automation bias, authority bias, the halo effect, appeal to novelty, Veblen goods, complexity bias, expectation bias...