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XR Tokyo @xrtokyo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This Friday (June 12th), it's XR Connections: Women in #XR & Game Dev Night, a collaboration with WiSE JP & Tokyo Game Bridge. An evening of talks, hands-on demos and networking, from 7pm at Le Wagon Tokyo, in Meguro. RSVP & Waitlist: luma.com/zdzr12ni 🧵 1/8

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XR Connections: Women in XR & Game Dev Night · Luma

A collaborative event by WiSE JP, XR Tokyo, TGB & Le Wagon We are thrilled to host an exciting event dedicated to XR (Augmented reality, Virtual reality, Mixed…

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

You know LLMs have hit Google in the wallet when they think that sending out unsolicited Chris Pratt movie news is slick move. 🤡

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Anytime I hear someone tell someone that “AI is coming to eat your lunch”, they don’t actually know anything about said lunch.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Work is a social relationship. We create things together. This is especially true of UX design. AI's value proposition is freedom from relationships. So when designers champion AI tools, we are not making ourselves layoff-proof. We are reinforcing a system that frames us as unnecessary friction.

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UX works through social relationships. AI tools are erasing them.

Stakeholders want to vibe code and have designers clean up after them afterwards. But rather than helping with velocity, there is just more noise and more work for everyone.

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The only AI feature I want on my phone is one that can automatically switch me to my following feed when I launch it.

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Apple just threw out the rulebook with Liquid Glass. They really shouldn't have, especially as they were the ones who wrote it in the first place. #iOS #design

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Just saw the release email drop in Steam for this. Been following the development for a couple of years now and I'm so excited to play it. Other games are going back on the shelf for now, this once has jumped the line. Can't wait to clock out and fire this up!🤘

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Fun fact: .co domains are expensive to help ward off domain squatters and make them feel more prestigious. And nothing says prestige quite like constantly being asked if you meant .com or if you missed the .uk, by people and forms alike. 👍

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Seeing a lot if AI hype saying designers in the future should all be vibe coding, shipping and supporting what they make. If you’ve ever tried to balance design and engineering at the same time, you’ll know why this is nightmare and how design time will be pushed out.

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XR Tokyo @xrtokyo.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

This Friday (24th Oct), we’re collaborating with Tokyo Game Bridge for our Community Link-Up event, an evening of networking and demos. #XR demos include: VR Ring Fit Shooting and Spatial Glass (details in the thread). Limited RSVPs still available: www.meetup.com/xrtokyo/eve...

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XR Tokyo + Tokyo Game Bridge - Community Link Up, Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup

[日本語は下に記載しています] With the Tokyo Game Show recently wrapping up for another year, we’re keeping that energy going! For our next event, we’re teaming up with Tokyo Game Bridg

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XR Tokyo @xrtokyo.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Visiting the TOKYO NODE “XR PARADE” in Toranomon Hills today and blown away by the creativity on display. Their summer hackathon has fostered some amazing #XR projects which are well worth checking out. It runs until Friday 24th October. Details at: www.tokyonode.jp/lab/events/...

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TOKYO NODE OPEN LAB 2025 | TOKYO NODE

「新しい都市体験」の研究開発チーム「TOKYO NODE LAB」の今を街に開放し、技術や思考を未来へと解放する、年に一度の8日間の祭典。

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

My favourite recurring theme this #DesignMattersTokyo has really been the design leadership insights people have been sharing Even with all the talk of AI changing design, the big challenge in good design is the systems and collaborations we facilitate. And that’s entirely human

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

It’s Design Matters Tokyo 2025! It’s cool to be back for an annual injection of new ideas and perspectives from the design world. And I’ve already enjoyed some great conversations.

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

You know it’s been a hot summer when you check the temperature, see it’s 31c out and think “ah, some cooler weather at last”. #tokyo

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Sometimes what seems like a trivial feature request from a customer, when you look into it actually shows itself to be symptomatic of a much deeper beast of an issue hiding away. Gotta validate those problems and connect those dots! #productdesign

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Critical and systems thinking, always own these. #AI can help your productivity in a ton of ways but once you give it control of those things you've sold yourself out.

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Yesterday I visited Space Travelium TeNQ courtesy of STYLY to see The Moon Cruise experience they created for installation there. 🌒 It’s free roaming #VR, and so well designed and executed. Absolutely one of my all time favourite #XR experiences. Highly recommended!🧵

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

gAI art is bad because it's stealing labor. stealing labor from art is easy because no one sees art as labor, they see it as talent. they see it as talent because it's easier to believe they have a right to hate you because they can't stand they gave up and you didn't. fuck them, pay labor.

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Both Genie 3 and Hunyuan’s GameCraft are opening the door for a potential metaverse more than anything we’ve seen so far. The ability for anyone to easily create compelling personalised worlds will amplify the draw to consumer #XR. Any "metaverse" adoption will be #AI driven. It's holodeck tech.

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

With Adobe’s #AR tool Aero being abandoned, despite it being free I have to wonder if the anticipation of an inevitable steep subscription cost stops people even trying it in the first place, let alone want to build a product on it.

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I’ve managed to port some of the basic Gaussian Splatting VFX experiments I did last year from Unreal to Unity. Looks great! VFXGraph made it an absolute pleasure, totally enabled by @_kzr’s open source packages. Next step is to see what limitations I hit in #VR & #AR.

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Back at TOKYO NODE LAB tonight, this time getting to use their Volumetric Video Studio as part of their resource offerings for their #XR hackathon. Getting access to this kind of setup is insane.

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Niantic Spacial just released their v3.15 SDK which now has Meta Quest 3 support. I’ve just started to experiment with the SDK and it couldn’t have dropped at a more perfect time. Perhaps the reason I needed to finally upgrade my Quest. #XR

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XR Tokyo @xrtokyo.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Thank you everyone who came to our event at TOKYO NODE LAB last night. It was a milestone event made possible by our speakers Degly Pava and Fabrice Matulic; the event and venue teams; and our amazing growing #XR community. We’ll see you again in September! #XRTokyoMeetup

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I’m considering a place to openly declare my personal policy on using AI. As I’ve got mixed feelings on AI overall ranging from productive to problematic, I feel like it’s important to be fully transparent on where I use it and what goes against my ethics. Is anyone else doing this?

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

While I see a real value and potential in AI, it feels like 90% of what I see people post boils down to "abandon humanity, chase the algorithm or die".

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XR Tokyo @xrtokyo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The TOKYO NODE "XR HACKATHON" has been announced. With its "Urban Culture Reimagined with #XR & #AI" theme and welcoming many kinds of projects, it's set to be an exciting summer event - starting July 11th Check out the full details in our press release. www.linkedin.com/posts/xrtoky...

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The urban XR/AI hackathon event TOKYO NODE “XR HACKATHON” supported by Niantic Spatial will be held at Toranomon Hills — and XR Tokyo is proud to support the event as a community partner. | XR Tokyo

The urban XR/AI hackathon event TOKYO NODE “XR HACKATHON” supported by Niantic Spatial will be held at Toranomon Hills — and XR Tokyo is proud to support the event as a community partner.…

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

“Why is there a gap on your resume?” Me: It’s not a gap… it’s called whitespace. I’m a designer.

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XR Tokyo @xrtokyo.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Last night we had another great XR Tokyo meetup; with big thanks to our speaker @fewerwrong.org for sharing with us her really engaging and insightful dissection of the XR runtime. Thank you also to everyone who attended. The community energy is really growing and it's an exciting time for XR.

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Who should I be following on Bluesky to grow out my following feed? I'd love to follow more designers, artists, creative people and technologists here.

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

No social network feed makes me want to leave sassy comments more than LinkedIn's does.

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Today with Bitwarden making two factor mandatory, I ended up using 3 different types of two-factor auth, multiple times and typing my master password countless times just to log in to my work email. Email I use on that computer daily. Security has gotten out of hand.

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Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Never understood why some people view "where do you get your ideas" as some kinda bizarre unanswerable question. Here's a great, straightforward answer example from Junji Ito.

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

What we’re going to find with AI over reliance is that suddenly people are going to run in to significant issues where nobody can be held directly accountable. It will be absolutely fatal for many companies.

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A common thing I've noticed is that a huge amount of generative AI proponents mistake novelty for art.

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

On my cycle home through #Tokyo there is a small temple tucked away where once a year they fire walk. The thing is, when I go past where it is in the day time, it isn't the same temple. It's like it only exists at night.

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XR Tokyo @xrtokyo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Thank you to everyone who attended our meetup last night. The atmosphere was great, with faces new and old, and some amazing #XR conversations. We look forward to seeing where 2025 takes us!

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Working on the plans for the next @xrtokyo.bsky.social event and social media building. It’s an exciting time for #XR here right now and I’m looking forward to providing a platform to help spread the word in projects large and small.

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Black Dragon Press @blackdragonpress.co.uk · 31/01/2025

The Prince Charles Cinema is a national treasure. Don't let a faceless capital fund take it away from us. Sign the petition and spread the word. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

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Save The Prince Charles Cinema

The future of the iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords, Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion...

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

In full on event organisation mode for this week’s #XR meetup here in Tokyo. Last year after we rebooted post-panda we rediscovered how strong the XR scene is here. This year we’ve got plans to take it up a level and I’m looking forward to sharing some news on that tomorrow.

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

This email's sender and subject give me mixed messages.

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

It’s nice to fire up Bluesky after a while and see life has picked up here, with some awesome familiar faces too.

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

People are wondering what the end game for Meta’s AI accounts are. They are an ad platform above all and one thing they’ve been unable to get a cut of is influencer money. If they create AI users that can play that role, they can take that entire slice.

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

That latest iPad advert I felt was particularly tone deaf as in an era where creative industries are increasingly under threat from AI, physically crushing beloved objects of creativity to replace it with tech just feels like it's adding insult to injury.

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 21/04/2024

Something I'm seeing a lot with people building #AI concepts and products is neglecting how humans are involved in the system. So often people are just thought of as the book ends on a process. We need to think more about collaboration points and remain focused on core uses.

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

TIL that in the Philippines there have been multiple separate instances of people being killed for sing Sinatra's "My Way" badly at Karaoke. They're referred to as the "My Way killings". en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way_...

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Leonard Burton @atomworks.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

Why do self-help books so often start with a strong premise and then just trail off or go on a tangent that seems to ignore the premise they sold you on? I'd be happier with less book at that point. Or at least give me an honest pitch. #books

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Liz Edwards @lizaledwards.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

huh, new stuff leaked from Half-Life 1? "Leaked Half-Life 1 animation files, acquired by a private source directly from valve's perforce in early 2024." archive.org/details/hlde...

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