One name, since 2010

R1V3R.cc is the name Nilo River has signed under since 2010, when an augmented-reality face filter ran inside Flash Player 10 — six years before that became a product. Since then the house has shipped a shooter blind players can play, a sunglasses try-on in the browser, an installation that reads brainwaves, and an in-house renderer that returns the same film every time it runs.

Nilo is also CTO at Hand-in-Hand, where AI-generated video is finished by human editors and delivered in 24 to 72 hours, with WCAG captions, in three languages.

The career is personal. The name is its legacy.

2010

Augmented-reality face filter in Flash Player 10. Real-time computer vision in a browser; it shipped.

2016

Snapchat ships computer-vision face filters. Being early isn't the skill; turning early into on air is.

[to measure]

Havaianas #TRYNBUY · Avon “A Voz de Todas” · Itaú Brain Waves · Hacktown · AME.LAB · Heineken · Nivea · Sprite

2022 → 2024

JBL Quantum Guide Play: two years of R&D with blind players and AbleGamers.

2024-03

Quantum Guide Play ships open-source and free. Twenty-plus awards; Cannes Lions 2024 shortlist.

2025

Hand-in-Hand: Nilo joins as CTO. [measure month]

2026

BRender and River Delta: the house's own renderer and the first film made in it.

Spikes Asia

Radio & Audio · Grand Prix

D&AD

Experiential: Activation & Participation · Pencil

One Asia Awards

Gaming for Good · Silver

The One Club

Creative Use of Technology for Good · Merit

The One Show · Clio

medals

Cannes Lions 2024

Entertainment Lions for Gaming · Shortlist

turnaround

24–72 h

languages

EN · PT · ES

captions + WCAG

every plan

delivered

2,000+ for one partner

capacity

25–100+ videos / month

Talks, and the one from 2022

Nilo speaks at HackTown and on the underground circuit of technology enthusiasts — the rooms that don't buy the big-tech narrative. The talks are the house's method out loud: measure before promising, name what already existed, and say no when the number says no.

At HackTown 2022, at the peak of the metaverse hype, the talk went the other way. It put a question to the room about Web 3.0 and took apart the story that the web started simple and only grew complex: in 2005 there were already multiplayer games in the browser, Habbo Hotel, Second Life, and countless Flash sites with immersive experiences that would embarrass much of what was being sold as the “new web”.

Being early isn't the skill. Neither is being contrarian. The skill is knowing what shipped, and when.

• Creative coding for brands
• Accessibility as engineering — the JBL case
• AI pipelines with human review
• Against the hype: how to read a cycle
• What 2005 already had

An email with topic, date and city is enough. Nilo replies within 2 business days.