AstroBeam logo was on the Nasdaq Tower in Times Square today! Game Changers 2026! Very cool! Thanks to @lightspeedvp.bsky.social @gamesbeat.bsky.social and Nasdaq.

Very exciting! We were selected as a 2026 Game Changer!

Steam Frame!!!

All character animation should be mocap! No more automation in animation! Only animation performed by humans is acceptable otherwise you are bad and your game is bad. Wait a second…

Our moonshot of a project is getting close. Natural voice as an input in games is coming! #StellarCafe

Laser Dance is ✨OUT NOW✨ in early access on Meta Quest 3/3s🕺 Turn your living room into the laser obstacle course it was always meant to be! Get it here👉bit.ly/3W0huQf

ARC Raiders is very good!

Roblox is not safe for children

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

Happy Halloween

Big news 📢 Laser Dance is coming to Early Access on Meta Quest 3/3s on ✨Nov. 6th!✨ In the meantime, make sure to wishlist it here➡️ bit.ly/3W0huQf

We are excited to announce 'The Reimer Family Climate Crisis Fund' is giving the @envdefensefund.bsky.social another $200K for it's important work on addressing leaking and abandoned gas wells! www.reimerclimatecrisisfund.org/news/200k-gr...

Stellar Cafe coverage on French news! youtu.be/TuEq9SUQ_zo?...

Battlefield 6 campaign was so disappointing dull. It felt like an experience where having a player was inconvenient to it.

Almost presentation time! Early Lessons in LLM powered NPCs at Austin Unity User Group.

Got to go to Juno Beach a pivotal location in Canadian and world history.

Had a great time giving @jasmine4pm.bsky.social a demo of Stellar Cafe! Love that she had so much fun!

“Stellar Cafe, I kind of dismissed it as a gimmick…after trying out the game for a short demo session, I’m going to hold up my hands and admit I was so wrong.” www.escapistmagazine.com/news-stellar...

Crowd big, painting small

🎉Job Simulator has officially won 'All Time Classic' in the #VRForever awards hosted by @vr-forever.com. You've all been a part of this wild, glorious, and sometimes chaotic world of jobs, and we couldn't have done it without you. Cheers to VR…forever!

Meta Connect time!

On my way to Meta Connect!

Panel at AR/VR Policy conference complete!

Big news! Job Simulator has been nominated for ‘All Time Classic’ in the #VRForever awards! 🤖🏆 The awards will be held by @vr-forever.com on September 18th as part of the VR Forever Steam event, which runs from the 18th to the 23rd featuring over 130 games. #VR #Gamedev #VRGaming

In Washington, D.C. doing a panel at the AR/VR Policy Conference on ‘Intelligent Virtual Characters: Revolutionizing Immersive Reality Experiences’ www.arvrpolicy.org/speakers-2025

Speaking to UploadVR, Owlchemy's CEO believes hand tracking has “the broadest appeal in VR right now” compared to controllers:

SpaceX notched some new wins with the tenth Starship test flight.

Fantastic Android Central preview! One of my favorite quotes: "This was more than just a ChatGPT moment for me. It was a surreal representation of a future I didn't genuinely think I'd ever live to see"

The response to the announce of Stellar Cafe has been wonderful! Thank you! stellarcafe.com

I'm really excited to voice input front-and-center in this new VR game! Check out the trailer!!!

Wonderful RoadToVR piece on Stellar Cafe: "...one of those rare experiences that feels like the future." www.roadtovr.com/stellar-cafe...

Great post about Stellar Cafe on GamesBeat! gamesbeat.com/astrobeam-re...

What if you could talk to Job Simulator's bots naturally? That's the promise of Stellar Cafe from AstroBeam. Read our impressions here: www.uploadvr.com/stellar-cafe...

Check out our new game Stellar Cafe!! VR game built entirely around your voice! Wishlist on Meta Quest today!

😲 Stellar Cafe uses your voice as the controller! 😲 🤖 Solve robot's problems in an intergalactic cafe 🗣️ Speak to NPCs - they'll talk back using LLMs 🖐️ Utilizing Owlchemy Labs' hand tracking tech 🥽 Coming to Quest in 2025 Watch the reveal at VRGS: buff.ly/iCpfR1V Wishlist: buff.ly/gjRdqRp

Soon!!

You should check out the VR Games Showcase tomorrow for...reasons :)

Finally got to watch Jurassic Park Rebirth and I just found the novel I wrote in Grade 7. Jurassic Park: The Search “They have the cure” Check out the synopsis (thread)

I just confirmed for myself, GPT-5 everyone

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

The order of science: 1.) Discover there’s a deadly problem 2.) Work for years to solve it 3.) The problem may not be gone forever, but we’ve won 4.) People forget the deadly problem actually existed 5.) People decide this must mean the science to solve it was a hoax 6.) The deadly problem returns

Oh no I cannot leave TwiX what about my followers~

Love this so much!!

I keep thinking about this one

Includes quotes from me

Favorite part of watching my kids play Portal 2 is when they get stuck I only say, “have you tried thinking with portals?”

We’ve truly come full circle en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers....

I've heard this called the "countdown to clown town" - the time it takes any live service game to devolve into complete incoherence and illegibility due to the constant addition of licensed tie-in cosmetics

SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft exploded on its test stand on Wednesday, sending a large fireball into the sky. The company had cleared personnel from around the site. wapo.st/4kUmz6G