Our Mission
Founded Late 2021, Brewed Engagement Extended Reality (BEER) Laboratory (Labs) is an enthusiastic interactive software development laboratory that focuses on researching and developing the latest in brewed fun and engagement!
Whether it be console/pc video games, interactive experiences or industrial applications in the XR space, we’re happy to serve up a pint!
What is XR?
XR is the general term for Extended Reality, encompassing:
- Virtual Reality (VR, Where you see only the amazing virtual world)
- Augmented Reality (AR, Where you can see cool stuff ontop of the real world)
You’ve likely seen the most common Augmented Reality experiences on Mobile Phone devices (Such as Pokemon Go). However, they’re not the only medium.
AR Head Worn displays are much like your VR headsets, except you can see the content directly embedded into the real world!
How we get there?
We upskill our games and entertainment designers-to-be on building games with heart. These skills are then further distilled to become XR experience developers. We also offer routes for specialist study into XR Research.
What makes us special?
We are developers with heart, closely engaging with our industry connectors as we brew our experiences to perfection!
We only produce content that is enjoyable by all, makes a meaningful impact on our future, or helps bring humanity together. Quality and excitement are our primary goal!
Got something exciting you want to see become reality? Let us brew it in house for you!
Recent Press
Here is Dr. Damo flexing BEER’s latest achievement of receiving “BEST GAME” award from the South Australian Screen Awards in 2021. You can clearly see all the tears of joy he’s emoting passionately taken by a likely-starving photographer.
Brew Masters
🏆 Meet some of our talented brew masters! 🏆
Dr. Damien Rompapas
Founder / Director
Dr. Damien Rompapas is an excited, pragmatic software engineer with 20 years of experience. His core interests are XR Research and Game Dev
Lim Damien
Chief Operations Officer
Lim Damien is an expert in management and operations, with over a decade of experience in managing large scale deployment of hardware and software solutions
Dr. Daniel Griffiths
Computer Vision Research
Daniel specializes in Computer Vision technologies, and is keenly assisting with the development of Project Esky, BEER's internal XR framework while developing his Computer Graphics skills
Dr. Aaron Mevielle-Smith
Computer Vision Research
Aaron is long time computer vision and electronic hardware expert with an extended background in film and television
Marty Paynter
Software Engineer
Marty Paynter is a Junior Software engineer learning full stack development, from hardware, to front end!
James Campbell
XR Researcher
James Campbell is a hardware guru, ready to answer any hardware related questions! Currently studying under Dr. Damo, his focus is on Augmented Reality applications for Non Destructive Testing.
Xuan Tien Pham
Game Developer
Xuan Tien Pham is a witty, energetic software engineer with a focus on game development and interactive experiences.
Vincent Ta
2D & 3D Artist
Vincent Ta is a creative, communicative, and detailed 2D and 3D artist, he drew all the shit post damos you see on our site!
William Copley
XR Development
William Copley is actively learning XR development under Dr. Damo's tutelage, aiming to develop for the ag-tech community!
