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Connell Gauld

Connell Gauld

As CTO and Co-Founder, Connell oversees Zapworks (Zappar’s AR, VR & WebXR platform) as well as being responsible for all cloud infrastructure. Connell founded Zappar in 2011, alongside Dr. Simon Taylor, Caspar Thykier and Kirk Ewing and is one of the world's leading XR Platforms and creative studios. More recently, Connell and the team launched Zapvision, an app and SDK that's helping people who are blind or have low vision to access product information on packaging through a single Accessible QR code.
Zappar, UKconnell-gauld-95a56b7b
Interests:
three.js
How We Rebuild the Creative Playground That Flash Took to the Grave
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Upcoming
How We Rebuild the Creative Playground That Flash Took to the Grave
Remember when Flash ruled the web, and you could build mind-bending interactive experiences without battling WebGL shaders, fighting scene graph hierarchies, or summoning dark forces to debug matrix transformations? Good times. 

Now, 3D web development is back—with WebXR, Three.js, and WebGPU leading the charge—but where’s the tooling to match?
In this talk, we’ll explore how modern devs can reclaim the golden age of interactive 3D without losing their sanity, diving into the pain points of today’s workflows and the solutions that are making immersive development fun again.
VR and AR