A 'behind-the-screen' look at how we create subtle, magical experiences using Rust and face detection| blog.tonari.no
Announcing two new features — our free-standing option and location hopping — that make tonari even more useful for feeling like you’re together with people around the world| tonari blog
How tonari can bring nursing and caregiving into the future| tonari blog
If the metaverse is an uncanny valley and standard video calls are laggy and tiresome, what about creating immersive, life-sized experiences instead?| blog.tonari.no
A slimmer, more accessible next-generation product designed for global teams| blog.tonari.no
Continuum evolved — introducing Tonari| blog.tonari.no
Stories about how we use tonari, and how it’s changing the way we work and live| blog.tonari.no
Tales from a fantastic evening of gaming and hacking at the 2022 Tokyo Rust Game Hack| blog.tonari.no
Notes and observations from our first six experiments: how tonari makes people feel closer| blog.tonari.no
and so can you: open-sourcing our static blog generator| blog.tonari.no
A public space to explore new uses of tonari for communities, families, education, and disabilities| blog.tonari.no
Create evolving artistic images with hot-code-reloaded Lisp and GLSL.| blog.tonari.no
Insights on interning with a 14-hour time difference| blog.tonari.no
Insights from a year of tonari pandemic stress-testing| blog.tonari.no
Hey there, we're tonari! And I'm Alisaun 🙋🏼♀️ — I lead our partnerships, success, and user research efforts.| blog.tonari.no
Nurture and shape your own private networks with simple, free, open-source infrastructure| blog.tonari.no
Diving into the embedded Rust ecosystem| blog.tonari.no
Japanese workers adapting to working from home share their ideals for the future of work| blog.tonari.no
Parents share how they are adapting to working from home with their children| blog.tonari.no
Reflections and learnings from our first pilot with Frontier Consulting| blog.tonari.no
In January, just a few weeks ago, we finally reached a huge milestone we set out to achieve in 2019: we built tonari, we launched our first pilot, and it’s now being used daily in the Tokyo and Osaka offices of Frontier Consulting. And in a strange and unexpected moment of calm, with no issues to be seen or heard, we celebrated by updating our internal version number to 1.0.| blog.tonari.no
Notes from our panel discussion at Social Innovation Forum 2019| blog.tonari.no
What if that wall was just a view into another place? I thought, unfocused eyes gazing beyond the grey wall in our office. Like looking through a portal, we could feel as though we are together in the same room, even when we are worlds apart. It might not matter if I spend summer days by the beach, or with my family in Montana; it might not matter if Ryo is traveling in Europe, or living remotely in the countryside. Perhaps we could always work and pursue new projects together, even as we f...| blog.tonari.no
Why we need new infrastructure and policies to support remote and distributed workers| blog.tonari.no
In my last post, I detailed challenges that organizations face when attempting to implement remote and flexible work practices. It was fascinating to hear employers and employees alike commenting on how the “trust issue” really resonated with them; some examples, like a friend at Sony remarking, “Trust declines inexplicably should I leave the magical confines of the office,” and yet another friend, in reference to his past career at a major Japanese communications company: “We get ...| blog.tonari.no
It’s 2018, and the technology to enable remote and flexible working is readily available. More people are choosing to join the gig economy or work in startups. Working-age populations in developed countries on the cusp of decline; so now, more than ever, large organizations need to offer flexible working conditions to hire and retain talent. And yet, in a recent business survey conducted by Economic News, just 11.5% of Japanese companies have adopted remote work practices vs. 50% in the US...| blog.tonari.no
How we chose the Rust programming language to advance the state-of-the-art in real-time communication| blog.tonari.no