Guess who didn't plan for my iOS build pipeline with UE 5.6 to break April 28th... Wish me luck. 🫠

There is an argument Android and iOS will possess platform network advantages that create a challenge for everyone else. It isn't just the ecosystem. The new moat is that familiar ecosystem and history before AI. Then you are assisted with glasses and wearables www.roadtovr.com/samsung-gala...

Meta appreciates their employees so much as to replace them with AI as fast as possible... so what do you think that means for DEVELOPERS feeding their abilities and ideas into AI tooling data. At Meta Connect it will be interesting to see how this is all framed into a pitch.

People might wonder why Microsoft would pivot from something that felt like "Xbox needs to die" to it becoming crucial to their plans... the answer I believe is that gaming itself is a fountain of AI data ripe for training needs and a market perfect for AI product exploration use cases... (cont)

If you think Meta's redesign is driven by Quest platform itself... you might be missing the bigger picture. Why redesign so much more toward the Apple Vision Pro's OS at all? Perhaps that style fits a light form factor? Does eye tracking impact this approach? What about controllerless design? 😎

Years and years of doing a robust backup process with nothing ever going wrong feels sort of pointless until that key drive fails at a crucial moment. And today was that day. 😅

I'm generating LODs on a few roughly 8 million tri models in Unreal and I can't believe it doesn't crash They come out great too. Witchcraft!

My new podcast is live with its first episode! Time to look at making this publishing and editing process easier, and improving audio quality. I know a lot of people are readers rather than listeners, so the page includes an edited transcript with key ideas from my guest bolded.

I've noticed a dynamic with my kids where I can start a game for myself... then the minute they show interest it becomes more satisfying letting them play. In fact their playing through gives me the same completion feel as if I had played through it myself. Very interesting.

the video game industry is a mess

I’ve added commentary paragraph by paragraph to the new and vague strategy document Meta released explaining that they’ve separated Quest from Horizon Worlds. For paid subscribers. open.substack.com/pub/goodvr/p...

Wow so nice to get rid of the swyft prompt on my Vision Pro builds and get fixed foveated. You can see it in the video at the edges of the video easily on the spheres and cubes. Huge shout out @polyarcgames.com really appreciated. Can't wait to incorporate the fixes. 🙏

On spotty hotel Wifi with VPN into my office just to get the @polyarcgames.com Apple Vision Pro project up. Been two years of hoping on Epic to expand support... Polyarc didn't have to share their fixes so massive thank you to the whole team!

Reflecting in Tokyo with my time off... Thought hard on what happened to VR industry this past month... This is a long read: I've been in VR since 2013 when I first helped start up Survios. You can imagine how the Meta VR fallout devastated me in really unique ways.

I’ve been fired from UploadVR.

Might be time for Blake J Harris to update The History of The Future

I'm wondering if there is a Steam Frame capability that maybe spooked Meta where they can't close some sort of technological gap in a reasonable product cycle...

If Meta is indeed shifting away from VR and layoffs in those teams are any indication... then that’s a tough moment for the medium. This is a prediction I made over a year ago that I hoped it wouldn’t come true:

My Apple Vision Pro Hybrid XR pawn using a Dualsense controller

New Years Eve has me think on my past. 10 years ago my demo for Oculus DK2 exhibited at SVVR- "Project Jump Scare" After working on many VR titles this past decade I've made a resolution to make Project Jump Scare ship in 2026. May your own dreams come true. Happy New Year all!

Meta Start Hackathon results are out! Didn’t take the hand interaction prize, but the locomotion system performed well enough that it’s now the primary locomotion method for our Apple Vision Pro build. Thanks to everyone who followed along and shared feedback.

One of the biggest mistakes I've made in my career is repeatedly helping big corporate employees without any form of compensation. Be aware who you help and why they need you to solve their lack of capability. Negotiate at the very start. Thankless types to say the least.

UE5 Hand Tracking Locomotion ported to Apple Vision Pro! Brought over my Meta Start Competition tech submission over with great results. Not a bad land before Holiday break!

Final submission for the Meta Horizon Start Developer Competition 2025! Solved a recurring XR design problem using a unified input abstraction layer that adapts locomotion systems across: •Meta Quest hand tracking •VisionOS gesture input •iOS touch •PC / mouse / gamepad

Meta Horizon Start Developer Competition 2025 final video - Project Jump Scare's hand tracked locomotion system! 🤗🎮

Sneak Peek #3 👀 - Hand Locomotion traversal with no controllers. 🎮🤗 Last day of Meta's XR Hackathon! 🚢

Sneak Peek #2 👀 - Hand Locomotion Yaw and Jump that are similar to the traditional controller input systems 🎮🤗 One more sneak peek left for Meta's XR Hackathon 🫡

Sneak peak! 👀 - Motion Controller to Hand Tracking is a small part of what I've worked on for Meta's Hackathon 🤗

How's the Project Jump Scare desktop build looking Chat? Frame rate from VR optimizations should make this run well even on Deck. We'll see!

I'm at E3 and dude hands me this. "What's Twitch?" I say I then have many beers and it never came off the keychain🍻

$750 rumor is high for Steam Machine. Too high. Feel similar to when I heard PSVR 2 price point. Didn't fit market. But I also don't think people are realizing the memory shortage issue. Consoles / PCs might continually spike as AI eats all ram. Like ongoing YoY adjustments 🫠

Think of a window FRAME. 🪟 Half Life was VR- you simply observed it through a FLAT window. Monitors had no parallex or depth. But it was always VR! What is it to peer through a window Frame? What is traditional gaming in 3D? Not stereoscopic tricks, but with parallax?

How did NASA get in the Project Jump Scare alpha... 😳

Hot take I prefer "GabeNCube"

Algorithm show Valve my Apple Vision Pro Hybrid XR pawn for Steam Frame port! 🙏 Algorithm show Valve my Apple Vision Pro Hybrid XR pawn for Steam Frame port! 🙏 Algorithm show Valve my Apple Vision Pro Hybrid XR pawn for Steam Frame port! 🙏 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Pray for me to the Valve deity 🙏 May the Frame come!!! 🫡

It's all beautiful. It happened. Long live VR.

Perforce Dragon Slain ⚔️ Not today P4

So today a Perforce dragon appears 🐉⚔️

Valve's VR team when Steam Frame hits:

How are we not getting a Silicon Valley reboot now that things are even more absurd with AI and robotics hype cycles? Missed opportunity HBO- it's getting surreal out here

Is the Apple M5 AAA gaming designed as a route to develop future XR technologies? Digital Foundry weighs in on exactly this ᯅ youtu.be/dnpBhyoOzSo?...

I won't tell anyone but there will be signs.

There is a terrible irony that my biggest most challenging bugs in gamedev relate to compliance rather than gameplay or the actual user experience. We spend time as gamedevs making a decent UX bad after compliance forces a design. I can't wait for even more rules!

One of the most surreal full-circle moments of my life is when I have to take away the vidya games from my own children. 👾🕹️😭

Update went so well for not touching Meta's tech in Unreal Engine for nearly 6 months- No errors on PC Puppet sort of works but needs platform specific rotation Hand tracking is PERFECT Enhanced input works exactly same as Dualsense controller 🥳 Also need to fix floor calibration

No errors! Solid update but will have to test: A) does my Meta specific hand tracking pipeline still work B) do motion controllers still interface properly with my enhanced input system. Have some menu issues to work out for sure with pawn locked in place but not a bad start!

We finally have an Unreal Engine 5.6.1 Meta XR plugin! I will be testing Project Jump Scare with soon in Quest 3 with all my progress. This cuts out months of refactoring and I can use optimizations!!! Thank you for supporting Unreal Developers Meta 🙏

Actually this is even cooler with fingers. There is a magic in seeing your real life body interacting in a digital world. ...different than the presence in full body VR avatars... Since it is your own body influencing the simulation you don't feel that VR acclimation gap...🤔

I feel that seeing your real arms effect the world is more impactful compared to the traditional VR avatar now that I've made this work in Project Jump Scare Am in love with this hybrid approach using Apple Vision Pro and wish I could make a passthrough body work on all platforms...