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SF Design Week 2021 The Future of Collaborative Making

By yusthaus

For SF Design Week 2021, I helped support the presentation of the frog ventures collaboration with Campfire 3D run out of the SF studio. Our team discussed the ways product design collaboration has existed in the past and will change in the future with systems like Campfire 3D that are collaborative, leverage mixed reality and … Continued

Campfire 3D Emerges From Stealth

By yusthaus

Congrats to our client and frog ventures partner, Campfire 3D, who has emerged from stealth to a round of positive press. They are looking forward to bringing their mixed reality collaboration system subscription offering to market later in 2021. frog Case Study Forbes Free Think Venture Beat Auganix

Snap AR Custom Lenses for frog

By yusthaus

I investigated the features of the Snap Lens studio to benchmark against some of the custom computer vision algorithms we wrote at frog for the SFMOMA project. It is impressive how performant and feature rich their computer vision systems have progressed using only RGB webcams for both facial tracking and full body tracking supported by … Continued

Giraffe Drawing 3D Modeling and AR Demo

By yusthaus

Walking through the house one day in late in 2020, I came across an awesome drawing of a giraffe across three 8×11 sheets of paper by my daughter. I thought it would be a fun character to 3D model, animate and render in augmented reality using the original drawing as a marker for the AR … Continued

Work From Home Conversion

By yusthaus

In the Summer and Fall of 2020 we converted a bedroom into a shared office and bedroom space to better accommodate the new work from home normal. Features include a secret passage to former closet hidden behind a bookshelf, concealed piano keyboard slide mechanism and a custom space portal piece inspired by Star Wars now … Continued

Extended Realities Become Reality

By yusthaus

In September 2020 I co-authored a frog design mind article with Austin-based design director Alexis Puchek called Extended Realities Become Reality. The article describes how new and existing clients are increasingly looking to frog for guidance and innovative design solutions that utilize XR hardware and software platforms. While we’ve developed a wide variety of XR … Continued

SF Design Week 2020 Designing for Inclusive Experiences

By yusthaus

For the frog design SF Design Week 2020 I co-hosted a virtual panel called Designing for Inclusive Experiences with fellow frog Tammy Baird and we were joined by Sina Bahram, President and Founder of Prime Access Consulting and Corey Timpson, Principal of Corey Timpson Design Inc. Our event explored the ways that design can address … Continued

Tokyo Vinyl Bars

By yusthaus

On a recent series of work trips to Tokyo, a Japanese colleague introduced me to the magical world of jazz vinyl listening bars in Tokyo. Its customary for patrons to subtly ask the bartender to play various records with minimal discussion that allows those present to focus on simply listening to the music while smoking … Continued