Vanlife with Agents

5 posts · 2022 to 2025

Involuntary Signals

Four years of trying to make headsets read the signals people cannot help sending, and working out what they should do about it.

1. 01Three Hypotheses, and Nobody Looked2022
2. 02A Camera That Watches You Back2023
3. 03165 Hours of Feeling Sick2024
4. 04The Sensor Was Already in the Headset2024
5. 05So It Knows You Are Struggling. Now What?2025

3 posts · Dec 2024

NZCarAuctions

A daily crawler on New Zealand's insurance auctions that grew into a 660,000-record public dataset.

1. 01NZ Car Auctions, Part 1: Building a 660,000-Record Dataset2024
2. 02NZ Car Auctions, Part 2: Analytics With Zero Servers2024
3. 03NZ Car Auctions, Part 3: Predicting Prices With XGBoost2024

4 posts · 2019 to 2023

Evolution of Volumetric Capture

Four years of volumetric capture, from a kitchen table in Auckland to a demo booth in Sydney.

1. 01Come to the Table2019
2. 02First Contact : XR for Good2020
3. 03Haptic Hongi: A Greeting You Can Feel2022
4. 04Haptic Hongi, Reiterated2023

5 posts · 2019 to 2021

Remote Collaboration

The PhD thread: depth-camera capture, gaze and gesture cues, and putting a 3D workspace into Zoom.

1. 01Wearable RemoteFusion2019
2. 02Which Cue Is Actually Doing the Work?2020
3. 03Pointing With Sound2020
4. 04Volumetric Training2021
5. 05Bringing 3D to Zoom2021

4 posts · 2016 to 2017

MagicMirror

Building a Raspberry Pi smart mirror from a hospital bed, the first step toward real-world AR.

1. 01Idea and Inspiration2016
2. 02Creating Custom Modules2016
3. 03Building the Hardware2016
4. 04Final Touches2017