After two days at Meta Connect, where I tried on the new Meta Ray-Ban Display, I visited the Computer History Museum and saw relics like the first mouse and keyboard and the first web server. Just a few decades of steady, incremental progress separate these devices. Play the long game.

Pretty cool to walk around the Saint Louis Zoo’s free 90-acre campus and see users and signs for the one-of-a-kind 3D web map with search and GPS navigation that I architected, built and sold to this client using open source web tech - check it out: map.stlzoo.org

Meta says browser use in headset is up 28%

I'm heading to Meta Connect! Last year the game I directed was featured in the keynote and WebXR sessions. Will 'In Tirol' be recognized this year? Stay tuned, and let me know if you'll be in town!

Cool to see WebGPU demos on iOS Safari without a flag! This is still beta but should ship widely next week. Considering Apple didn’t ship WebGL 2.0 until like 2021, this is great to see Last barrier to me using it in production is the WebXR-to-WebGPU bindings, which I believe is in proposal phase?

📡 We’re looking for a freelance mid-senior level Character Animator / Technical Artist to help bring a digital character to life across a series of VR prototypes, developed in Unity for Quest. Remote OK. Recommendations and signal boosts welcomed! #XRJobs liquidcity.notion.site/Character-An...

I actually love this b/c it’s only going to demonstrate that even with pro writing, a real production schedule and a legitimate Hollywood budget, this shit is still going to suck

This has been my feeling for a couple years: LLMs are at or near their ceiling for capabilities, and will not improve dramatically from here, for reasons technical, practical, legal and economic. Recent evidence: arxiv.org/abs/2507.19703

My game "Grappler's Gauntlet" is now live on @viverse.com! Use your grappling gun to pull yourself up to the top before anyone else can stop you! You can play now at worlds.viverse.com/QTrnrXw and join the Discord at discord.gg/ccWHZtBXpA.

My keyboard has a tiny LED screen to display gifs and other info and it is admittedly dumb but also makes me happy The overall look reminds me of my old DOS Tandy from the early 90’s, which is to say 🥵 www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZCMX4R...

I'll be at Meta Connect in SF from Sept 16-20 talking #WebXR to anyone who'll listen, hope to see you there

📢 Meta published my guest piece on their developer blog! I wrote about making ‘In Tirol’ as a one-man band, including inspiration, script, art, score, voiceover, development and launch at GDC: developers.meta.com/horizon/blog...

Cool to see Vienna among the top cities playing In Tirol globally each week

My Voices of VR interview is out! I spoke to @kentbye.com at @awexr.com about my game, WebXR broadly, and publishing on @viverse.com. I'm a huge fan of this podcast b/c of Kent's journalistic objectivity and ethics, but also his genuine enthusiasm and deep experience voicesofvr.com/1615-viverse...

I published 41 interviews from 2018 to 2025 on the Voices of VR covering Augmented World Expo Past & Present. I cover XR & AI like a hyperobject over space & time through the modality of oral history, and this series is 24.5 hours long spanning lots of topics. See my cheat sheet with tags & metadata

Github Repo: github.com/pmndrs/viverse Docs: pmndrs.github.io/viverse/ Super excited for this launch since it enables every threejs dev to get started with VIVERSE! Let's show them the power of the threejs community ❤️

Introducing pmndrs/viverse and react-three/viverse 🎉 A Toolkit for building @threejs.org and React Three Fiber Apps for VIVERSE and beyond with only a few lines of code ⟁

Art and inspiration for In Tirol

My recent Quest 2 optimizations for 'In Tirol' resulted in cool new visuals in a few places The mechanical theatre of Schloss Hellbrunn 🖌️ hand-painted vertex color ➡️ emissive channel (on top of diffuse) ➡️ randomized intensity every few frames 🚨 plus highly performant

The PWA in-app purchases discussed here is a step in the right direction, but very glad @uploadvr.com captured this perspective. Meta Quest and its browser needs a trusted OS-level wallet for it to move beyond niche gaming console status

My cat Lucy is always mad in the morning before the sun comes down the wall. I think she thinks I control all light in the world so she sits there and meows at me

I am *this close* 🤏 to finishing Quest 2 optimizations for In Tirol and writing a blog post for Meta's developer blog on the making-of. Similar to my piece on Above Par: developers.meta.com/horizon/blog... Release cycle almost done. Eager to move on to the next thing but this is part of the work

WebXR apps packaged as PWAs on the Meta Horizon Store can now use in-app payments, letting web developers monetize their experiences:

Inching toward a key feature for intirol.game but Meta had a bad month for reliability. OS bugs mean WebXR entry/re-entry randomly stalls, controllers won't render, & the home env locks up on session end. Respect to their teams, this stack is monumentally complex, but I'm eagerly awaiting a hotfix!

Proud to share: VIVERSE now supports all major WebXR engines (Unity, Godot, Three.js & more). Also live: VIVERSE Studio 📦 World management 🚀 Easy deployment 📊 Analytics 👤 Custom profiles 🔗 Watch, then visit news.viverse.com/ for more info! #WebXR #GameDev #VIVERSE

For a while now any time family asks me about AI my default response has been "It's a bubble now, but all it's going to take for some big IP holder, like Disney, to win a copyright lawsuit and the whole thing becomes one giant liability." And, welp...

I posted a small description on Quest browser new experimental "shared spaces" feature: github.com/cabanier/sha... Here's a small demo recording that show it in action:

Proud to say In Tirol is a finalist at AWE’s Auggie Awards for both “Best Art or Film” and “Best Indie Creator” 🥇 Also in the final stages of submitting it to Meta to be featured on the new tab page to appear on 30m devices globally 🤞 The last 2% has gone agonizingly slow but it’s *almost there*

-TOORN- has launched! I've worked with @viverse.com to create this game for their platform. Experience this unique multiplayer WebXR tower defence game, where you not only place the towers, but operate them as well. Link to game: create.viverse.com/jzBbQ5s

Great interview about cutting edge game engine tech! Also, I love how he is *constantly* calling out the individuals and partner teams that worked on various parts of the engine. youtu.be/DZfhbMc9w0Q

📢 Today is the final day of public voting for AWE's #AuggieAwards where In Tirol is nominated for "Best Art or Film" and I'm up for "Best Indie Creator" - just a few votes could help make the finals: auggies.awexr.com/entry/vote/b... auggies.awexr.com/entry/vote/b...

Rose bush out front in full bloom after I cleared out some dead boxwoods in front of them this season

We released Wolfenstein 3D on this day (May 5th) in 1992. Here's a local television news report about it. What an amazing time that was. #wolfenstein #gamedev #retrogames

2/ It finally named its backer, a family with ties to the Mets and reportedly Bernie Madoff—one hour after Forbes’ investigation into the obscure company. More on that here: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

What a story! Well-researched & reported. I've seen their execs bragging about valuations/acquisitions (distressed assets like Napster or gimmicky AI companies) but no market or technology exists to justify numbers like these. Some of the fabrications are so egregious www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

Meta Quest added the final piece for PWA - "Add this page to your library"🎉 Now you can add ANY web app and page for quick access from your library🤓 (It's now released for all)

🚀 All week, we’re sharing powerful voices from the VIVERSE stage at GDC 2025. Today, meet @jamesckane.bsky.social — a game dev pushing boundaries and redefining XR design with #VIVERSE. 🎥 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=un5ZZKupV-E#VIVERSE #WebXR #JamesKane #VIVERSE #PlayCanvas

JSPI, the wasm JavaScript Promise Integration proposal, is now at phase 4: github.com/WebAssembly/... That means it is considered fully standardized. JSPI lets wasm call JS APIs that return a Promise. The wasm awaits it. It is still behind a flag in most browsers, but hopefully not for long!

Just released version 1.2.0 of wLipSync. No new features, but about 77% faster. github.com/mrxz/wlipsync

I've finally gotten a chance to put together an in-depth introduction to neural graphics for beginners in Slang using a simplified version of our 2D Gaussian splatting example! shader-slang.org/blog/2025/04...

lol great. Because I didn’t keep my Twitter account and actually deleted it, there’s now a ICO for @mozilla.org Hubs coin. Things are going great on Twitter 😂

For anyone wondering this, cutting off the gangrenous limb is the only way to live

Pretty amusing that cursor.ai is still some squatter's placeholder index.html 😅 I admire the owner for holding out this long, bet they get a bonkers-enough offer eventually

Despite much optimization, had to admit I'm using too many real-time shadow-casting lights to maintain a steady framerate in VR But I replaced certain lights/shadows w/ hand-painted replicas of the specific shadow shape like in old German film, then animate intensity + position to mimic fire light

I had never heard of this show before until last night. Awesome late-period Henson Studios work that has amazing analog VFX & really awesomely-composited shots of live actors inside of paintings etc. in addition to the expected excellent puppeteering and costume work. www.youtube.com/live/Oqu8bKJ...

Bottled liquid shader working in VR w/ custom controllers! Pour one out for your homies at intirol.game

Bottled liquid shader working in VR w/ custom controllers! Pour one out for your homies at intirol.game

It's been an awesome experience developing for VIVERSE - and now they're opening up applications to get WebXR content funded! Pitch your cool idea soon!

Our new website is live! 🌀 From city-scale games to AI ecosystems, we’re shaping a positive future for technology in society. liquid.city #XR #AI #Design #Prototyping #CreativeTech #LiquidCity

I skimped on a few VR-specific interactions to hit my GDC deadline, but I'm back home from a successful trip and adding controller input for the torch and theremin Adding it for the bottle/liquid shader next but that will be a bit more work and I am trying to take it easy after a busy few weeks