Far Horizons Achievements: Building the Future Through Proven Innovation

When most consulting firms talk about innovation, they mean PowerPoint presentations and strategic recommendations. At Far Horizons, innovation means building working systems, demonstrating measurable results, and transforming entire industries. Our achievements aren’t abstract—they’re proven, documented, and repeatable.

The REALABS Foundation: Enterprise Innovation at Scale

Before Far Horizons existed, our founder Luke Chadwick co-founded and led REALABS, an innovation lab at REA Group, one of Australia’s largest digital real estate companies. This wasn’t a side project or a corporate vanity exercise—it was a four-year mission (2014-2018) to prove that emerging technology could drive real business outcomes in traditional industries.

Pioneering 3D Property Technology

In September 2014, Luke attended the inaugural Oculus Connect conference in Los Angeles, visiting Matterport’s tiny office in Mountain View and bringing their groundbreaking 3D scanning technology back to Australia. What happened next became one of the most successful technology adoption stories in Australian real estate history.

The numbers tell the story:

Grew Matterport adoption from 0% to 5-6% of Australian property listings in just three years
Properties with 3D tours were 95% more likely to generate email inquiries
Properties with 3D tours showed 140% more phone reveals from interested buyers
Users spent 6x more time engaging with listings that included immersive 3D experiences

These weren’t just impressive statistics—they represented a fundamental transformation in how Australians experienced property online. Through strategic partnerships with Phoria and extensive education programs, REALABS demonstrated VR technology to hundreds of real estate professionals, making Australia a global leader in immersive property content.

World’s First VR Property Portal

Innovation doesn’t always mean being first—but sometimes it does. In partnership with Google Daydream, REALABS launched realestateVR, the world’s first virtual reality property portal. This wasn’t a tech demo or proof-of-concept; it was a fully functional VR application that allowed consumers to browse and search active property listings in immersive 3D.

The achievement required collaboration across multiple teams—product managers, developers from partners like Cogent and DiUS, internal REA staff, and the REALABS team. It demonstrated that Far Horizons’ founder understood not just how to build technology, but how to orchestrate complex partnerships and bring people along for transformational change.

Strategic Partnership Excellence

One of REALABS’ most significant achievements was establishing partnerships with emerging Silicon Valley companies before they became household names:

Valve provided pre-release HTC Vive headsets to REA despite being “a nobody to them,” trusting REALABS to demonstrate cutting-edge VR to hundreds of Australian professionals
Matterport partnered closely to establish their Australian presence, with REALABS becoming instrumental in their market entry
Zero Latency, an Australian VR startup, collaborated on immersive experiences that showcased what long-term VR capabilities could achieve

These partnerships weren’t transactional—they were collaborative relationships built on demonstrated expertise and shared vision.

From VR to AI: Following Fast Water

The REALABS achievements taught us a crucial lesson: find where technological capability exceeds its application, and build the bridge between potential and practice. We call this “following fast water”—moving to areas where innovation can create the most impact.

The Post-Geographic Achievement

Since 2018, Far Horizons has operated as a truly post-geographic company, working across 53+ countries over six years. This isn’t lifestyle branding—it’s methodology. Our founder established Far Horizons OÜ through Estonia’s innovative e-residency program, proving that geography is increasingly optional for knowledge work.

This achievement demonstrates more than operational flexibility. It validates our approach to distributed teams, asynchronous collaboration, and location-agnostic operations—expertise we now bring to clients navigating their own digital transformations.

LLM Adventure: Educational Innovation as Market Leadership

In 2023, as Large Language Models began transforming the technology landscape, most companies rushed to add “AI-powered” to their marketing materials. Far Horizons took a different approach: we built LLM Adventure, a free educational game that teaches prompt engineering through an interactive fantasy quest.

The achievement:

Hundreds of developers have used LLM Adventure to build genuine prompt engineering skills
The platform demonstrates our technical capabilities while providing real educational value
It embodies our philosophy: demonstrate first, explain later

LLM Adventure isn’t just a marketing tool—it’s a contribution to the broader developer community and proof that we practice what we preach about LLM implementation.

Client Success Stories: Measurable Impact

Our achievements aren’t just internal—they’re reflected in the success of our clients.

European Automotive Marketplace: Immersive Commerce

A leading European automotive marketplace engaged us in 2021 for a project-based collaboration to rebuild a Unity-based AR car photography tool. The success of that initiative demonstrated our ability to move quickly from concept to production, delivering immersive vehicle merchandising and data-rich content pipelines.

German Real Estate Platform: Long-Term Strategic Partnership

A major German real estate platform partnered with us on a property visualization initiative that evolved into ongoing advisory support encompassing:

AI/ML implementation projects
Technical architecture and team leadership
Development of an AI-powered real estate assistant
Ongoing consulting on emerging technology integration

Innovation Across Industries

Far Horizons has delivered measurable results across diverse sectors:

U.S.-based employee ownership software startup: CRM development with AI integration for employee ownership transition software, combining technical advisory with hands-on development and go-to-market strategy
AI-powered parenting assistant team: Strategic architectural guidance for an AI-powered virtual assistant for parents, helping navigate the complex Flutter + Next.js + TRPC technology stack
Mid-market auto parts management company: Extended interim technical leadership transforming auto parts management operations

Each engagement demonstrates our ability to work across industries, technology stacks, and organizational contexts—bringing the same pattern recognition and innovation leadership that made REALABS successful.

Industry Recognition and Thought Leadership

Beyond client work, Far Horizons has established recognition as a thought leader in emerging technology adoption:

Speaking and Presentations

Building on experience from REALABS, where we conducted extensive tech disruption presentations for real estate professionals, Far Horizons continues to share insights on:

AI adoption strategies and LLM implementation
Post-geographic operations and distributed team management
Innovation within enterprise organizations
The evolution from VR/AR to AI/ML

Documentation and Knowledge Sharing

We believe in bringing people along for the technological journey. Our commitment to education extends beyond LLM Adventure to:

Comprehensive technical documentation
Sample code and implementation playgrounds
Research insights shared publicly
Open discussions about both successes and failures

This transparency builds trust and demonstrates intellectual honesty—we’re as willing to discuss lessons learned from projects like Twirrl (a “textbook solution without a problem”) as we are to celebrate REALABS successes.

The VectorPipe Innovation

While maintaining client commitments, Far Horizons continues internal innovation with projects like VectorPipe, focused on ingesting diverse content sources—documents, videos, podcasts, URLs—into vector databases for AI-powered search and retrieval.

This ongoing R&D work ensures we remain at the cutting edge of AI infrastructure, testing approaches before recommending them to clients and building genuine expertise through hands-on implementation.

Pattern Recognition: The Meta-Achievement

Perhaps Far Horizons’ most significant achievement is less tangible but more valuable: proven pattern recognition across multiple technology waves.

We successfully identified and rode three major technology transformations:

VR/AR (2014-2018): Proved enterprise value at REALABS before mainstream adoption
360° Content Platforms (2018-2022): Explored market opportunities and learned crucial lessons about product-market fit
LLMs and AI (2022-Present): Applied lessons from previous waves to the AI revolution

This pattern recognition enables us to help clients navigate technological change by applying battle-tested methodologies rather than theoretical frameworks.

Awards and Recognition

While Far Horizons doesn’t chase industry awards, our work has earned recognition through:

Client retention and expansion: European automotive marketplace partners returning for multi-year engagements
Referral relationships: New clients finding us through recommendations from existing clients and industry contacts
Developer community adoption: Hundreds of developers choosing to use LLM Adventure for skills development
Partnership trust: Companies like Valve, Matterport, and Google trusting us with pre-release technology and strategic collaborations

The Next Achievement: Yours

Every achievement we’ve described—from REALABS’ VR innovations to LLM Adventure to successful client transformations—began with a conversation. Someone recognized they needed to bridge the gap between emerging technology and real business problems, and they partnered with Far Horizons to make it happen.

The most important achievement isn’t the one we’ve already accomplished. It’s the one we’ll build together with our next client.

What Makes Far Horizons Different

Our achievements demonstrate a unique combination:

Technical depth: We build production systems, not just recommendations
Strategic thinking: We can advise C-suite executives on transformation strategy
Proven track record: REALABS provides documented evidence of our methodology’s effectiveness
Pattern recognition: We’ve successfully navigated multiple technology waves
Education focus: We bring teams along rather than creating dependency
Intellectual honesty: We discuss failures as openly as successes
Global operations: True post-geographic capabilities refined over six years

Join Our Next Achievement

Far Horizons is building the future of AI adoption from everywhere and nowhere. Our achievements demonstrate that the best way to help companies adopt transformative technology is to have already transformed yourself.

Whether you’re a growth-stage startup needing rapid AI integration, a mid-size company navigating AI adoption across teams, or an enterprise digital transformation team looking for proven innovation leadership, Far Horizons brings achievements that matter: measurable results, demonstrated expertise, and repeatable methodologies.

Let’s make your next innovation milestone our next shared achievement.

Far Horizons OÜ is an Estonian post-geographic AI consultancy specializing in LLM implementation, strategic innovation, and enterprise transformation. Founded by REALABS co-founder Luke Chadwick, we bring proven innovation leadership to companies navigating the AI revolution.