About
Luke Chadwick · Berlin
Far Horizons is Luke Chadwick's practice. Twenty-five years of shipping software: VR in 2014 and AR in 2016 at REA Group in Melbourne, where he co-founded REALABS; production LLM systems since 2022, for Scout24, AutoScout24 and others. The company is Far Horizons OÜ — Tallinn on paper, Berlin in practice, since 2019.
Most of how Luke thinks about technology comes from near-term sci-fi — Gibson, Stephenson, Doctorow, Suarez. The reading list is a post.
realestateVR on Google Daydream, REA Group, 2017.
2001
Started shipping software for money. Never stopped.
2004
Started the blog at vertis.io.
2014–18
Co-founded REALABS at REA Group in Melbourne. Brought Matterport 3D scanning, VR and drones into Australian real estate, and measured what they changed.
2018
Left REA Group and went nomad, mostly with Miles, an English Cocker Spaniel.
2019
Incorporated Far Horizons OÜ in Tallinn. Early engagement: rebuilding an automotive AR capture pipeline in four months after the vendor discontinued it.
2022
First LLM systems into production — Scout24, AutoScout24 and other platform teams. Built with the teams, then handed over.
2026
Settled in Berlin. Merged vertis.io into this site.
How engagements work
Code in your repo, with your team
Advice nobody can implement is just opinion.
You own it afterwards
No dependency by design, and no account manager waiting to upsell.
Small on purpose
One or two clients at a time. You get the person you met.
Remote-first, EU hours
On site when it earns the travel, remote when it doesn't.
Five shapes of work, from a two-week architecture audit to a standing advisory retainer, each scoped and priced before anything starts.
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