Updated our docs this morning in anticipation of our web app & first game City Champ going to public pre-release next week. Turned it into a thread in case people are curious about the basics of LiDAR scanning, photogrammetry, and Gaussian splatting🤳 and how it relates to

Next week, we’ll open up our web app to submitting scan data. LiDAR and photogrammetry scans of <20MB work best. City Champ players will be able to scan & submit public spaces to MeshMap and play their scans in VR immediately.

Our a16z crypto CSX program wrapped last week. For demo day, we built a large scale Magic Leap AR experience and operated it over 3 days in Washington Square Park. Players blasted ghouls, hunted for candy, and explored digital halloween decorations. Next Up: AR Christmas

Finally caught up on video editing😅 Here’s a short clip of our runtime scan & play City Champ demo for Magic Leap 2

This year I co-founded an augmented reality company, MeshMapXYZ When fundraising last summer, the most common question was whether it was too early. But the deeper I went into XR, the more confident I became that this is the best time to build. Thread on 2024 learnings —>

We had an amazing first year of building in 2024, including two of the largest public outdoor AR events ever. AR is unlocked and this is just the start🔓

Here’s 7 minutes of pure Christmas cheer to cap off your holiday season🎉 Thanks to everyone who came to Central Park last month to play MeshMapXYZ second large AR event and helped Santa save Christmas! We searched for presents, threw snowballs, talked to snowmen, and tested

We wrapped up 2024 with our second public AR weekend. This time in Central Park!

Designing large AR requires pinning virtual objects with extreme accuracy 📍🗺️ Why? Because being even 1 degree off will cause MASSIVE problems and break player immersion. MeshMapXYZ solution = professional scans + clear localization spot + QR code marker + easy calibration

Bullish on extremely accurate, extremely large AR mapping in 2025

2024 😎 entered Colosseum hackathon won gaming category, joined 1st cohort of their accelerator raised $4.25M in seed funding from a16z crypto CSX and top tier coinvestors spent fall in nyc at csx accelerator & built the 2 largest consumer AR experiences on earth 2025 🚀

1/ In 2024, we evaluated thousands of hackathon submissions and worked with an elite group of founders through our accelerator, which gave us a unique view of crypto's rapidly emerging markets. Read our new post to learn more about Colosseum's investments & themes for 2025. ⬇️

Two MeshMapXYZ projects have been nominated for the 🏆 AWE AWE Auggie Award for "Best Location-Based Entertainment"🏆! Check out the videos and please give us a vote if you like what you see! (links below)

MeshMap is building an interactive musical experience merging spatial & volumetric capture + rhythm games. Anchored in space on the Magic Leap 2. Preview at AWE in Long Beach this June.

My approach to building hardware startups: 1) try not to build a hardware startup 2) use off the shelf hardware to test business idea 3) discover gaps in existing hardware 4) build v1 system largely with off the shelf modules 5) identify modules to custom design 6) embark on

First major take away from AWE: First gen consumer AR glasses will arrive in 2026. Snap with consumer release of spectacles. Xreal with 70 degree FOV Aura running androidXR.