About Us
Next Reality
Next Reality brings you a daily look into the cutting edge innovations in Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), and Ambient Computing, poised to merge the impossible worlds of our imaginations with real life. We provide the latest insider industry news, developer guides, and AR app previews as the next major platform shift is starting to take off. We believe AR and Ambient Computing will eventually replace our smartphones and computers as we know them today with a more seamless and limitless part-real, part-virtual, and always connected world. We started Next Reality to help accelerate consumer interest and adoption of tomorrow's AR tech, today. So whether you're an early adopter, developer, gadget geek, futurist, or industry insider, or just a regular user with an AR-enabled smartphone, we've got you covered.
The Company
Next Reality is a sister site of WonderHowTo. We launched WonderHowTo in January 2008 with our own money, and later, with professional backing from General Catalyst. Given our backgrounds in television programming, motion graphics, and software development, early on we chose to pursue instructional topics we were most curious about. With an original taxonomy of 476 categories, sometimes we wandered pretty far off the reservation. But we always kept exploring. More recently, we have chosen to narrow our focus into fewer verticals we found genuinely intriguing, inherently dynamic (and not evergreen), and ripe for future innovation.
To create even greater focus and expertise, in early 2017 with approximately 12 million monthly uniques, we launched the WonderHowTo Network. Four new sibling verticals, covering not just How-Tos, but the latest news, reviews, rumors, and insider information on the areas we find the most interesting. We would love to hear your feedback. Help us make these verticals...wonderful.
The Team
Justin Meyers
Content Editor, Gadget Hacks
@burkinfarct
Content Editor of Gadget Hacks, Null Byte, Next Reality, and WonderHowTo. Hardcore Apple fan but also loves Android. Has been writing his entire life, whether online content, screenplays, short stories, novellas, etc. Plays guitar, banjo, and piano but still learning. Loves word games like Scrabble and Words with Friends.
Tommy Palladino
Contributing Writer
A communications professional with more than 20 years of experience in a variety of fields, including technology, manufacturing, construction, and healthcare. Considers himself to be a gadget geek. Conned his way into playing bass for several bands. He's also a fantasy sports legend.