Time to buy our own private hardware ... regardless of the jacked price. They don't want to give us the chance in the future.

They want renters not owners. Supply shortfall & chip shortage spreads to all segments harming the consumer. By design.

Take ownership of your own private digital power.

This Saturday, we invite technologists, founders, and creators to see the Companion Core in person.

If we are moving into an era where machines help construct human experience, the most important decision we can make is who holds the keys to the machine. We believe the answer is you.

It turns the "Dreaming Machine" into a tool for survival and stability, not just entertainment.

See the Future of Local Compute

he Core is designed for longevity and resilience. With "Just In Case" (JIC) data resources preloaded, it ensures that your access to knowledge and compute persists even if the broader internet... or the corporate cloud goes down.

3. Sustainability and "JIC" Resilience

The event calls for situating technology within societal goals like "sustainability and human well-being." T

The Core comes with Companion OS, preloaded with learning tools, agent templates, and no-code tools. It is a piece of "Applied Experiential Technology" designed to let creators build their own agents, databases, and private networks immediately.

Reality Hack places the "greatest emphasis on empowering creators to experiment and build rather than verbally speculate."
We aren't just talking about decentralized AI; we are showing the hardware that makes it possible.

The Shift: You aren't just connecting to a generative state; you are hosting it. You define the parameters, the privacy levels, and the "possibility spaces" without surveillance capitalism looking over your shoulder.

2. Building, Not Speculating

The event themes describe AI systems that "produce interactions that resemble exploratory or generative states." The Companion Core, powered by the AMD AI Max+ 395 and 128GB of memory, allows you to run state-of-the-art models (like Llama 70B or DeepSeek) locally on your desk.

Reality Hack emphasizes "agency over consumption, authorship over passive use." This is the precise DNA of the Companion Core. Here is how our presence aligns with the event’s core pillars:

1. Independent Agency in a Generative World

Companion Core flips this paradigm. It is a compact personal cloud server designed to restore professional and family privacy. But more than that, it is a private engine for your own Dreaming Machine.

Why It Matters at Reality Hack

When you use a cloud-based AI to generate a world, draft a thought, or mediate an experience, you are renting a slice of someone else's dream... often in exchange for your data and privacy.

The Reality Hack manifesto warns "technological determinism" and "passive use." It argues that reality is mediated by shared frameworks of meaning and power. In the age of AI, those frameworks are increasingly owned by centralized cloud providers.

The question by the hackathon organizers: "How intentionally are these systems designed, governed, and deployed, and toward what ends?"

On Saturday, we are bringing the Companion Core to MIT to answer that question with a single, powerful assertion: The "Dreaming Machine" should belong to you.

Theme of Reality Hack 26:  "Dreaming Machines." It posits a future where artificial intelligence and spatial computing don’t just display information, but actively synthesize inputs to generate experiential environments. These systems are "dreaming" alongside us, shaping our perception and behavior.