Back in Canada!

I find it silly how many things seem like a huge step until actually attempted, then it's... Oh. It was just that. That's it. Hey, i can do this thing now!

So, turns out, the trick to make the Galaxy XR properly work with tongue tracking is to add the necessary lines in the VRCFT VirtualDesktop DLL. And poking in there, i'm seeing a lot of stuff being math'd together for face tracking values. Do i really want to start messing with this? I'm tempted!

I open Uber Eats and it suggests Home Depot... Why are things this stupid!

It feels like so many things aren't even trying anymore...

Samsung Galaxy XR video thing! Figured i'd try making some kind of video about it, since there hasn't been much that talks about getting it setup and into VRChat! Too much about using the AI crap and "It's like a Vision Pro!". www.youtube.com/watch?v=INwY...

Samsung Galaxy XR. It works! Got it unboxed and setup with Virtual Desktop in less than an hour, spent about 2-3h in a VRChat meet. Face and eye tracking works! Hardware is pretty great! Software needs some work, but it’s a barely released device. Quest 3 had issues on release too after all.

Taking a chance…

As "planned", things did not go according to plan, and i'm stuck in Houston until at least Tuesday, or whenever UPS decides to deliver what we need. So yeah, free weekend! Got that Samsung Galaxy XR demo tomorrow, but aside from that, if anyone wants to hang out or anything...

Did you enjoy Stage Flight 3 last weekend? If so, consider contributing to Micca! There's a fair bit of cost to run an event like this (VRCDN, software licenses, and other hosting), so contributions from the community help fund future events. :3

So, Houston in a few hours! Any creatures there interested in hanging out or getting food or… anything? Should be there until Monday!

Guess i'm not going to be able to register for @nordicfuzzcon.org on my own and figure out rooming later. Anyone potentially has room space?

This is pretty dumb...

Airplane time! Headed to Phoenix, AZ today until Tuesday. Then headed to Houston, TX on Wednesday until Monday. Anyone out there wants to hang out?

So. Galaxy XR headset got released. Can't get it in Canada. No way to try it. Seems like only a few USA locations have it available to play with. ... seems like work is sending me to Houston, Tx.

Workspace upgrading has begun!

I think i need to upgrade this workspace if I’m going to keep being here…

Maybe instead of a large curved screen i can just make a massive array of 2in LCDs driven by an absurd amount of ESP32s...

Things…

I think I say 'What was I doing again?' about 50 times a day. Sometimes for good reason...

I really wish disabling autocorrect on Win11 would actually disable autocorrect. Also, why does it keep adding keyboard layouts I don’t want…

… i think i techsploded my mom’s basement again…

A better plain demo of just the audioreactive unit in darkness! This is all with no direct input from me!

Better audio reactivity! Set to very low frequencies. It works as an overall dim/brighten over the active pattern, so yeah! Progress!

The Big One. v3 is ready. Saturday, October 25th, 2025. Details in next post.

I’ve apparently reached the annoying part of projects where I’m bumping into limits of the platform, blah.

It's annoying how easier it is to get into projects when you have absolutely no idea what you're getting into.

... is the data wrong, or is my visualization of the data just too slow ...

Is there really such a thing as simple beat detection code that actually works?

I'm having the kind of "fun" today where i read a whole lot of stuff about how to code a thing, seems nice 'n straightforward... Then the moment i try to do it myself: "This function is deprecated and no longer supported." "This feature has been removed since version 4.x, use this instead."

I really wish there would be more often a "bare minimum example" of things in documentation. I keep wanting to see if a specific library or function does what i want it to, but the examples so often involve a code blob longer than my entire thing to catch exceptions 'n so many things i don't need.

Old stuff being thrown at me by my mom. I didn’t know hands were a measure unit between inches and feet.

Results! More things are working! I now have audio reactivity!

... i really need to add jumpers or DIP switches to my ESP32s to assign them roles, instead of switching lines in the code to true/false before compiling. I got stuck again trying to debug something that was just set to false in the code ...

Progress! … it is super basic, yeah, just getting audio to have a +1.65V offset and such for the ESP32 to process, but still! I did a thing again! And it WORKS! … after triple-checking everything and adjusting values so many times until I noticed the incorrect “1X-10X” switch on the probes…

To reduce the stress about essentially working blindly, equipment has been obtained. It might be cheap stuff, but better than nothing i guess!

So, update to this thing in a less “4AM with too much caffeine“ way. Unstructured wireless sync’d ESP32s with WS2812b lights responding to commands from a “master” node, now with a more proper input board, and hopefully soon to be made audio-reactive in sync from a line in.

I did a thing! So instead of that disaster of wires sticking out, i’ve tried soldering things again. It went not quite as badly as the previous times i’ve tried it! Experience gained! I now have a nicer input board with 4.5 sliders and 3 buttons!

I’m 100% sure i’m doing a bunch of things wrong, but if in the end it’s not on fire, i consider it a victory.

I asked my mom if she had some wire bits i could use for soldering as jumpers on a board for projects… Yep.

A thing was thrown at me. .. i have no idea what to do with it.

I have C coding question! Not regarding very ESP-specific stuff, but kinda... general. Anyone willing to help with that? It's regarding how to pack data to send over network and unpack on the other end. I've been basically doing it the token separated way, but i need better.

So yeah, it’s suddenly 5AM. This happens. Been a while since I was able to get lost in a project like this. Also, somewhat fitting that I’m currently in my mom’s basement.

ESP32 Things! This is what has kept me distracted since I got back to Canada! Hopefully this can turn into something like “Audiolink offline” or just some neat audio/beat linked free floating elements. The idea in the end is to have the main data source be proper lighting or audio hardware.

I find this kinda funny. I got the ESP32s, they came with random code samples that loaded in the Arduino IDE 'n all. I just went from there, started modifying the code and made it do things... Today it just hit me, i don't actually know what language i'm coding in! ...apparently it might be C?

Quest Pro eye tracking is helping a gryphon come alive in VRChat. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/vrchat-creat...

Gonna do another little post since the last one was deleted But hey, I finally got this thing done!! ((and im already hard at work doin more for it >> ))

I got an electric scooter. Small 500W thing. I find it funny how it alternates between a thing that carries me and a thing being carried around by me. I kinda want to find a way to backpackify it.

I am homeish! A thing was delivered while i was away.

Montréal!