About Far Horizons

Two decades of building the future from everywhere

Luke Chadwick has stood up emerging tech before it was "safe"—Matterport, Google Daydream, Unity AR capture, and now large language models. Far Horizons is the post-geographic consultancy that embeds that restless R&D energy directly inside your team.

Impact

95%

Increase in buyer enquiries when Matterport tours went live on REA.

Speed

4 months

Time to rebuild a full 360º automotive capture pipeline.

Presence

53 countries

Locations delivered from. No HQ, just bandwidth.

Operating Principles

How we work with teams

The same patterns that carried us from VR labs to LLM residencies.

Follow the fast water

Move toward the edge where capability and human need have not met yet—VR in 2014, AR in 2016, LLMs today.

Show, don’t tell

From plank experiences to LLM Adventure, people believe what they can touch; every engagement ships demos early.

Go where the work is

53 countries and counting. Location changes weekly; the standard of delivery does not.

Bring people along

Innovation sticks only when teams understand it. Workshops, ride-alongs, and shared playbooks are non-negotiable.

Timeline

Highlights from the perpetual motion machine

From the Oculus DK1 to LLM residencies, every year pushed emerging tech into the real world faster than the market expected.

2014
The REALABS handshake

DK1 → innovation lab in months

Luke returned to REA Group for a hack day, promised Nigel Dalton he would build VR if given the chance, and co-founded REALABS the same week.
2015
Matterport goes mainstream

95% ↑ enquiries • 140% ↑ calls

Captured homes across Australia, ran “plank” demos for skeptical agents, and proved 3D tours drove 95% more enquiries and 140% more phone reveals.
2016–2017
Google Daydream property portal

First realestateVR launch on Daydream

Partnered with Cogent, DiUS, Valve, and Zero Latency to ship VR experiences before the hardware reached consumers.
2019
Unity car capture rescue + Estonian anchor

4 months from brief to shipped app

Rebuilt an AR walk-around scanning platform in four months while incorporating Far Horizons OÜ via Estonia’s e-residency programme.
2022–Present
LLM residencies and post-geographic ops

30+ teams upskilled via residencies

Embedded with teams across Europe, APAC, and the US to build retrieval pipelines, automation, and AI governance while running the company entirely location-agnostic.
Proof of work

Selected field deployments

These aren't "advisory decks." They are systems Luke and collaborators designed, coded, deployed, and handed off.

Matterport Adoption Engine

Scaled camera programme & partner ecosystem

Shifted VR from novelty to sales tool overnight

Created data narrative that convinced national franchises

Unity AR Capture

Ported deprecated vendor solution into custom stack

Delivered Android + iOS app with desktop QA suite

Hit contract deadline with four weeks to spare

LLM Residency

4–6 week embedded build/test cadence

RAG + automation pipelines deployed to production

Prompt mastery via LLM Adventure workshops

Why motion matters
"When you stay in one place, you solve local problems. Moving lets you see what the future is already struggling with."

Luke Chadwick

Remote-first since 2018 (before it was forced)

Estonia OÜ structure for frictionless EU delivery

Toolchain: Linear, Notion, SvelteKit, Next.js, Rails, Terraform, AWS, Vercel

Miles the English Cocker Spaniel is the unofficial Chief Vibes Officer

Operating principles

How we choose what to build and how to behave

Follow the fast water

Move toward the edge where capability and human need have not met yet—VR in 2014, AR in 2016, LLMs today.

Show, don’t tell

From plank experiences to LLM Adventure, people believe what they can touch; every engagement ships demos early.

Go where the work is

53 countries and counting. Location changes weekly; the standard of delivery does not.

Bring people along

Innovation sticks only when teams understand it. Workshops, ride-alongs, and shared playbooks are non-negotiable.

Bring the field lab into your team

Whether you need a Matterport-style adoption campaign, an AR capture rescue, or an LLM system that keeps shipping once we leave, Far Horizons embeds until the job works.