Vaughn M Hannon

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Creative Technologist working in the Themed Entertainment and live events worlds.

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  • AWE 2026 – The What and Why

    My oh my the ground has shifted quite a bit since AWE 2025. The eighty billion dollar gorilla in the room, Meta, has famously “pivoted” to AI and thus slashed its Reality Labs division. Meta was pushing hard on their version of the Metaverse (wrong headed from the start) and the hardware to get you…

  • See you at AWE!

    I’ll be wandering around AWE 2026 tomorrow June 16th and Wednesday June 17th. Hope to see some interesting things and have even more interesting conversations. Say hi! #awe #awexr #awe2026 #xr #vr #ar

  • PaGoda Returns!

    Many, many years ago…10! It was TEN years ago! :gasp: I wanted to create a space in our Burning Man camp to play Go. I wrote a little about it way back then. Loosely inspired by Asian architecture it made for an interesting place to play with whoever might wander by. The structure was designed…

  • What a (last) week!

    Last week was unintentionally eventful! I hadn’t planned on attending any of these in advance and, in fact, learned about a couple of them only the day before. No matter! They were each unique and interesting. TV Academy Emerging Media – Themed Entertainment Mixer Hosted by the Television Academy Organized by Gregg Katano, a great…

  • A little something new…

    I’ve been excited about virtual worlds for a long time now. I dabbled in VRML wayyyy back then, built things in Second Life, explored Mozilla Hubs, poked around in VRChat (more to come there) all in the pursuit of virtual spaces to augment the physical world. There’s been a consistent problem with all of the…

  • ActiviyPub Enabled!

    I’ve fully enabled ActivityPub for this site so you can feel free to follow me on your favorite Fediverse platform. Any post here will show up as a post in your social feed.

  • Quick Follow Up to “Experiments in AR!”

    Late last year I posted about some fun stuff I was playing with in AR via 8thWall and, around that time, Niantic announced they were closing the 8thWall platform but promised to open source it. Good news! They followed through on that promise: https://www.8thwall.com/blog/post/208587408737/8th-wall-open-source Hopefully I can get my silly little project up and running…

  • A Big Adventure

    I recently finished up a little work trip helping a large company with a new large ship install a media based show in two of their restaurants. I joined the ship in Cape Canaveral, FL and left the ship in Tokyo. It then continued onto its new home in Singapore. In between we stopped in…

  • Can we pump the brakes on the metaverse talk…please?

    I’ve had this post titled (but unwritten) and sitting in my WordPress drafts since January of 2022. You remember…it was the height of Metaverse fever. It was the Next Big Thing(tm) and you were a fool if you weren’t making some sort of play to build “a metaverse.” (have I mentioned I hate it when…

  • A little Hollywood magic

    The holidays have come and gone and with it your chance to visit Stars Hollow, CT via Burbank, CA. I’ve just wrapped a nightly show that has played every night (except for Christmas) since December 17th on the Warner Bros. back-lot as part of their Holidays Made Here event. Working with Planet C Studios we…