Programming Throwdown Episode 106 Augmented Reality with Connell from Zabar. Take it away, Jason.

Hey, everyone. So we have a really awesome episode. I think a lot of folks have tried, and we were

just talking about this before we started recording, have tried virtual reality and have even

tried augmented reality and may not have

even known it. That's what it was called. And so we're going to really dive into this

feature. I think a lot of folks have called VR and AR kind of the next smartphone, right,

or the next platform. And there's a huge amount of potential here. And it's

already being used by tons of people. And so we're going to try and learn as much as we can. And we

have Connell here, who's the CTO of Zapar. And yeah, thanks a lot for coming on the show, Connell.

Thanks for having me. It's a pleasure. Cool, cool. How are you doing? Are you making

do with, you know, these crazy circumstances? Yeah, yeah, not bad. We're based in London,

and so we had a big lockdown earlier on in the year. And during that process, we, of course,

as a business, moved to complete working from home.

And I've actually just taking the decision to continue to have a completely flexible working

scenario for people. So some of us will be going back to the office who choose to do so,

and some of us will be working remotely for the foreseeable. So, yeah, it's been interesting.

But, you know, we've not really suffered any loss in productivity as a result, which has

been great.

And it's obviously not the case for everybody, which is unfortunate.

Yeah, that makes sense.

So as a company that is centered around augmented reality, were you able to, you know, with

this kind of new environment, like find a new product or were able to sort of see some area

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