WebXR controls that work on Quest and Vision Pro
How the Gilmore Home headset scene turns Quest controllers and Vision Pro hands into the same pointer UI — a recipe you can drop onto any React Three Fiber scene.
CREATOR’S COMMAND CENTRE
Preparing your 3D world
Starting the interactive experience…
CURRENTLY BUILDING3DNAMES.CO
Apparently websites
weren’t complicated enough.
So I’ve started building entire interactive 3D environments for them.
This is Creator’s Command Centre, one of my first experiments: designed in Blender, baked for performance, and running completely inside the browser.
Eventually these scenes will become downloadable, customisable website experiences over at 3D Names. For now, have a play.
BLENDER → WEB
High-detail baked scenes
INTERACTIVE
Rotate, zoom & customise
COMING SOON
Part of a bigger 3D Names project
I may have gone slightly
overboard with this one.
THE PERSONAL SPACE OF JOE GILMORE
Always curious.
Always building.
Thoughts, experiments, and things I’ve learned along the way. A little web development, a little design, and a lot of figuring things out.
DevelopmentDesign & 3DAI & experiments
THE NOTEBOOK
Latest writing.
Make Your Mac Speak the Time Only While You’re Working
A simple little macOS automation that announces the time every hour while Work Focus is active, follows your Mac volume, and never shouts at you louder than 40%.
Creating a Typescript, Tailwind and Expo Go App in 2 Minutes (Updated for 2025)
Updated for 2025 — build a fully configured Expo Go + Tailwind + NativeWind + TypeScript app in under 2 minutes using a single command.
Testing your network connection using a bash script
Want to run a script that plays a sound everytime your network connection drops out or comes back online? Use this script to help you with testing your home or office network connection
React & NextJS Sortable Lists: Beautiful DnD vs DnD Kit
Using Sortable Lists in React is fairly easy, in NextJS it's a little bit trickier. Here's how to do it with Beautiful DnD and DnD Kit.
AWS Launching a ServerLess Cloudfront Distribution
This article shows you how to can spin up a distribution in AWS Cloudfront using the Serverless Framework
OUT IN THE WORLD
Some things I’ve worked on.
GOOD THINGS START WITH A CONVERSATION