Currently working at Nova Entertainment!
I'm also tinkering with augmented reality over at The Reality Crafters - if there's a way you can help support us with that, please get in touch — my e-mail address is in the panel below!
Patrick Catanzariti
Head of Engineering @ NOVA, SydAR founder, Lightship Leader, speaker, AR dev, writer, editor and course author
Speaker, developer and author on emerging tech
Augmented reality, virtual reality, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, virtual assistants, robotics, wearables, Bluetooth beacons... the future is crazy exciting!
Striving to help shape our increasingly tech-centric future for the better!
My latest efforts are evolving over at The Reality Crafters!
The Reality Crafters
The Reality Crafters is an award winning Augmented Reality duo I have with my wife Meri to explore AR, ways of positively influencing AR's future and how to help society have a positive and healthy relationship with technology.
SydAR
I founded SydAR, an AR community meetup for the wider Sydney region. We showcase AR demos, bring the community together and highlight the great work Sydney does in AR.
NOVA Entertainment
I'm currently Head of Engineering at NOVA Entertainment, the best radio network in Australia! We've done a lot while I've been with Nova, but a highlight for me was putting together our modern, rebuilt Alexa skill for Nova and Smooth in 2024 and then seeing it on a billboard!
GeoGlitched
An AR game in beta that won the Grand Prize in Niantic's "Summer of AR Challenge". It's powered by open APIs, GPT 4 and the Niantic Lightship ARDK.
Better Screens
An AR prototype exploring an alternative approach to managing our screens and our time with technology using Augmented Reality. Won Second Place in the "Screen 2.0" category of XREAL's First AR Jam!
Incites
I was the Creative Technologist and UX Lead over at Incites. I led the UX and front-end development of a pretty darn cool automated insights platform for publishers, brands and agencies with platform with a social feed.
Dev Diner
I founded Dev Diner, a site focused on helping people keep up with emerging tech with a weekly newsletter, interviews with industry and more!
Space Barista WebVR
Built a fun little multiplayer alien barista VR prototype for PC-based and mobile VR!
Halyard VR
How do you show the benefits of surgical drapes and gowns in VR? That's the challenge I embarked on as an experimental project for Halyard Health.
360 Building Tour VR
I helped an agency in Belgium develop a 360, multilingual tour of a new bank building!
awe.js browser-based IoT demo
I put together a demo of an interactive WebAR interface to control my LIFX lights!
Filtering Reality
I created a demo of filtering a smartphone camera and displaying the result in WebVR, filtering the world around you! Lots of fun!
Streaming a Raspberry Pi Camera into VR
I also streamed a Raspberry Pi camera feed into VR which was adapted into a bunch of other Pi projects around the world!
Early WebVR on Google Cardboard
Experimenting with early WebVR capabilities, creating a dynamic environment that responded to the weather around the world!
Bringing Web APIs into Unity
I put together a guide on SitePoint for how to bring in Web APIs into Unity scenes and use them to change the scene itself!
Passionate about web development since 2000!
From HTML table layouts to CSS flexbox & grid layout and everything in between! I even enjoy JavaScript and all its quirks!
SitePoint HTML/CSS Editor
I had a blast as an editor of SitePoint's HTML/CSS Channel — guiding authors and the direction of their HTML/CSS coverage.
Web Directions John Bot
Put together a multi-platform virtual assistant for Web Directions Code and Web Directions AI that worked on Amazon Echo, Google Home and the web!
Logico Homes
I completely redesigned the Logico Homes website to help improve their online web presence.
Thank You Please Call Again
One of the most fascinating projects I've put together a website for, exploring people's reactions to a series of posters that appeared around Australia!
Meri Amber
I'm the web developer, photographer, videographer and assorted tech for the incredible geek musician, Meri Amber! We put Block Breaker in her website header!
My Nikon Life
I was lucky enough to be a part of a large and super talented team at Apparent for the rebuild of the My Nikon Life website. I worked on front end and a bit of back end code, including building the gallery, custom lightbox functionality and sorting out font icons.
Medtronic
While contracting for Apparent, I built a WordPress site (both front end and back end) for them to match their designs.
Toyota Australia
Worked on quite a few Toyota Australia projects throughout my time at HotHouse! My highlight was a revamped interactive pricing calculator (pictured above!).
The Comedy Channel
One of my favourite projects! I was the lead front-end developer on The Comedy Channel’s new website at HotHouse Interactive.
Eager to teach and consult about emerging tech!
Want to make Arduino robots? Explore VR/AR in your business?
Sydney NodeBots Day
I ran Sydney NodeBots Day in 2015 and 2017, guiding people to put together Arduino-based robots and control them with JavaScript!
Nexgen Codecamp
I helped Nexgen Codecamp run a two day Arduino robot workshop for school students, we finished up with a pretty funny Sumobot competition.
Navitas Ventures VR Workshop
Navitas Ventures were keen to explore how they could use VR for education, I spoke to 70 staff and gave VR demos to show the potential of VR.
Immersive Hack VR Hackathon
I was a mentor for partipants at the first ever Immersive Hack VR Hackathon in Sydney, helping mostly the WebVR teams (who did super well!).
Academy Xi Unity Workshops
I ran two sets of a two night Unity Workshop to help people of all skillsets create their first VR application in Unity!
Introduction to IoT Programming with JavaScript
Helped a whole bunch of people get started building an IoT dashboard with JavaScript in an online course for O'Reilly!
