“I just want to share the coolness of desktop AR,” says Perception Founder/CEO Rabbit–a/k/a Dr. Sirisilp Kongsilp.

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And that’s exactly what he and his team at Bangkok-based startup are doing.

They’ve come up with a desktop augmented reality plugin, Holo SDK, which works without a special headset.  They also provide a developer kit with free tutorials on how to create desktop AR.

And much more is coming.  Currently in beta, the Holo-SDK plugin is part of a much larger vision.

Rabbit, who is a full-time faculty member in the Engineering department at Thailand’s Thammasat University, plans on his desktop-based holographic system facilitating the ways we work, shop, and travel.  His desktop AR system has been ten years in the making.

In this episode of Over Coffee®, we cover:

• How Rabbit first became interested in immersive technology;

• What “fishtank VR” is (believe it or not, this is not new!  Rabbit says it’s been known to the VR/AR community for years. But it is mind-blowing!)

• The creation process for Perception, and how a “failure” led to Perception’s ultimate success;

• How the Holo SDK plugin works;

• What Perception has available, free and low-cost, for new developers;

• A look at the projects users can make with Perception’s developer kit;

• Some of Perception’s future plans for additional areas of use for their desktop AR;

• An exciting competition that should be happening just as this podcast episode drops!;

• What a user will need, to create desktop AR (we discuss anaglyph glasses, for which you’ll find numerous “how-to” videos on YouTube);

• What’s next, for the future of Perception’s desktop AR within the next two to three years;

• How “glassless” AR would work;

• When the next version of Holo SDK might be available in Mac version;

• What Rabbit considers his main challenge, in his entrepreneurial journey, and what has been the best part;

• Some of the other applications in which desktop AR will appear in the future.