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Tragedy in the Rise of Giants
Florence as Interactive Metaphor
Something Fishy in American Politics
The Future of AR is Understanding
Red: The Girl on the Poster
Difficulty vs. Accessibility
Make Games for Everyone

About

This is the blog of John Austin, a game developer living in Seattle, WA.

I founded Pontoco, and lead projects there day to day. Most recently that was The Last Clockwinder. Before that I led XR engineering at Funomena, and before that I did research at Google Machine Intelligence on Google Lens.

I tend to blog about technical topics, with a splash of design.

You can reach out to me via my contact page, or follow me on BlueSky, Mastodon, and Twitter. You can follow my blog via Email or RSS.

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Rust, AR/VR, Houdini, Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Asset Pipelines, Physics, Explorable, Lattice, Game Engine, Graphics, Design, Linux, Unity, Interactive, Build Tools, Current Events, Essay