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Gerald McAlister

Building a Serverless Discord Bot on AWS

Discord bots are a powerful capability for your server. In 2020, Discord introduced two major new features however, that don’t…

10 min readMar 23, 2021

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Gerald McAlister

Fiber Will Fix Your Internet, Not 5G

There’s this idea I’ve seen slowly starting to take shape that 5G internet will someday be able to solve America’s internet woes. The idea…

4 min readFeb 16, 2021

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Fiber Will Fix Your Internet, Not 5G

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The Unspoken Genius of Apple’s M1 Chip

With Apple recently releasing a new line of computers built with their own chips, there’s been a lot of focus on how well Apple has…

4 min readNov 20, 2020

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Developing for VR in 2020 — A Beginner’s Guide

I’ve seen a lot of folks asking about how to get started developing for virtual reality in 2020, with a particular focus on those who have…

6 min readJul 17, 2020

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Developing for VR in 2020 — A Beginner’s Guide

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Down the NES Rabbit Hole — Hello World

In the first part of this series, we kicked everything off with a nice sample project in which we displayed hello world using the NES…

9 min readMay 26, 2020

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Down the NES Rabbit Hole — Hello World

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Gerald McAlister

Apple Won’t do VR — Nor AR

Within the virtual reality and augmented reality industry, there’s been an immense amount of speculation surrounding what Apple plans to do…

4 min readMay 19, 2020

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Apple Won’t do VR — Nor AR

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Down the NES Rabbit Hole — Press Start

While I spend the majority of my days focusing on cutting edge and bleeding edge technologies like virtual reality, augmented reality, and…

5 min readApr 24, 2020

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Down the NES Rabbit Hole — Press Start

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Gerald McAlister

AR/VR 2020 Predictions — The 20% Predictions

I’ve put out a lot of predictions about what I think is going to happen with virtual and augmented reality this year. My first Story on…

6 min readMar 17, 2020

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AR/VR 2020 Predictions — The 20% Predictions

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Gerald McAlister

How to Fix HTC’s Virtual Reality Problem

HTC has a major problem in virtual reality right now: They’ve lost their touch outside of China. It might sounds strange, especially given…

4 min readFeb 25, 2020

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How to Fix HTC’s Virtual Reality Problem

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AR/VR 2020 Predictions — Topics of Interest

My last Story about my 2020 predictions for AR and VR received a lot of traction. With the CES having ended and my first few predictions…

10 min readFeb 18, 2020

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AR/VR 2020 Predictions — Topics of Interest

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Gerald McAlister

Gerald McAlister

Software engineer, hardware tinkerer, focused on VR, AR, AI, & Web3. I write about whatever crosses my mind, but try to focus on business vs tech vs philosophy.

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