Hooligan: a better way to choose where to go right now
The interesting recommendation is not what is popular. It is what fits your actual moment.
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30 reports on building, drawn from field work, research and practice.
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I built a SIGGRAPH planner in half a day, and 500 people used it
I had absolutely zero expectations for this 😭
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From playing Unity games to winning a Unity-sponsored XR hackathon
When I was 12, I was just playing games built with Unity.
Continue reading →The ten minutes that are killing XR adoption
nobody talks about the thing actually killing xr adoption.
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Winning the Android XR Hackathon before my first AWE
My first AWE is officially in the books. And wow... what a week!
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Winning a 45-minute product hackathon
We just wrapped another Big Nerd Hackathon and it keeps getting better.
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I built a tiny Ugadi experience from six flavors
Happy ugadi ✨ పరాభవ నామ సంవత్సర శుభాకాంక్షలు 🥭
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The banana test: when AI writes the job application
saw something interesting on a job description today.
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Maanvi was my first real product
I just realized something... I’ve never really talked about my first job!!!
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Three years into XR, here is where I actually started
3 years ago, this was me starting my XR journey... making friends in an incredible community and beginning a path I didn’t fully understand yet.
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Building a better last-mile arrival experience in 36 hours
Go Down The Rabbit Hole With Us 🐇✨ Immerse The Bay 2025 was honestly one of the best weekends ever!!!
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Trying Samsung Galaxy XR in Mountain View
I’ve been spending some time in my favorite state, California, and making the most of the access to tech that’s hard to find anywhere else. today I tried the Samsung Galaxy XR at the Google
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Inside Apple's game developer workshop
Today I had the opportunity to attend the Apple Game Developers Workshop at Apple Developer Center in Cupertino. It was a full day of learning, conversations and hands-on insight into how ga
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30,000 miles later, travel technology still feels incomplete
I’ve logged 30,000+ miles across 25 U.S. states and 4 countries since 2023.. hiking national parks, chasing waterfalls, café-hopping, testing AR/VR demos at conferences, and coding on the go
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Privacy in the Loop: rethinking XR telemetry through synthetic data
Excited to share that I’ll be speaking at the GatherVerse XREvolve Summit 2025 ✨
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Building Taara in public
my uncle Aswini Siva Kumar Avagadda once told me that the more you share your goals, the more responsible you become to achieve them. So here I am, putting it out there.!
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My first day inside the CAVE
January 17, 2023, First day of grad school ! After orientation, I went to meet my advisor, Dr. Arya Basu, He had set up a tour of the Emerging Analytics Center at UA Little Rock... I was not
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Finishing grad school with two privacy presentations
Hi everyone!! I wanted to share a few highlights that made this final stretch of grad school really special. I had the opportunity to present our IEEE VR 2025 poster "Preserving Privacy in
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What if a kinetic sculpture could ignore gravity?
A tiny VR pendulum became my way of exploring kinetic art as something you can pause, manipulate, learn from, and prototype before touching a single physical material.
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Presenting privacy-preserving VR telemetry at IEEE VR 2025
Reflecting on an Incredible Experience at IEEE VR 2025!✨ I had the privilege of attending IEEE VR 2025 in the beautiful city of Saint-Malo, France, where I presented our poster on "Preservin
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Mentoring at MIT Reality Hack for the first time
What an amazing experience at MIT Reality Hack 2025!
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My first IEEE VR podium
Finally, I can say I've reached a small milestone in my academic journey. Standing at the podium of the IEEEVR 2024 conference, presenting our paper titled "Navigating Gender Biases in XR: T
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Why XR inclusion became personal
Thank you, Dr. Basu, for your invaluable guidance and mentorship throughout this journey. I am grateful for the opportunity to work on this important research, and I'm excited to continue ta
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Volunteering at the 50th SIGGRAPH
Deeply honored to have been a part of 50th SIGGRAPH 2026 as a student volunteer! The experience of contributing to such an incredible event alongside fellow enthusiasts has been nothing shor
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My first international conference started with privacy
We need to be more responsible and have the right to live in a more safe and secure world where our Privacy is not violated. Even after working for a decade in experimenting and implementing
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Meeting the CAVE, the beast that started my XR journey
It’s my first time at such a huge lab, The experience was surreal and I just cannot wait to work with the beast aka CAVE, the coolest VR setting, super technology, and wonderful people at th
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