James Clifford Kane

Free afternoon in SF before World Labs hack-a-thon tomorrow. Good buildings, beer and weather in this town. Very happy to be here

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Watch your six! Soon I'll launch STARSPEED: Zero-G Aerial Combat in partnership with WorldLabs.ai 🚀 Multiplayer & campaign inspired by Descent/DOOM w/ a gripping story & synthwave OST 🎹 Here's a peek at the making-of w/ SparkJS + three.js -- early access is days away!

New post on how to do real-time diffuse global illumination using surfels and #WebGPU: juretriglav.si/surfel-based... #threejs

Good Virtual Reality | Ian Hamilton | Substack Good places to visit in virtual reality as recommended by Ian Hamilton and partners. Click to read Good Virtual Reality, by Ian Hamilton, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

I'm very sorry to hear this, Ian. You're one of the best in the biz - I trust you'll find the right path forward

Just signed up for a year of goodvr.substack.com

New game approved! It's such a banger. Cross-platform but will be killer in XR, single & multiplayer, building in public. Real announcement soon! In the pipe, five-by-five 🚀

Interactive WebGPU Pool Demo With XR Support Check out James C. Kane's project.

My #WebXR + #WebGPU demo got picked up by 80 Level! More to come, especially as three.js adds support

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@toji.dev I'm trying to hook up WebGPU on WebXR in three.js using my Galaxy XR. The first frame always comes in with a null XRFame. Is that a known issue?
Also, the browser doesn't always show the immersive scene even though I'm producing frames.

Idk, there are 20+ good fitness rhythm apps on Quest and even free via WebXR. Mechanics well-known and easy to copy. The hard and expensive part is music licensing. And as a longtime Supernatural user and fan, imo big hardware improvements (100g HMD max) are is still needed for wider audience reach

YouTube video by Defunctland DefunctTV: The History of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

Blast from the past to start the day. That the number one children's show for years on end was detective-themed is... interesting to me personally

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‘The Shadow of the Czar’: Narrative World-Building with Marble and SparkJS Go behind-the-scenes with Webby-winning artist and developer James C. Kane during his latest production in collaboration with World Labs

Watch the trailer, play it on mobile or desktop, then check out the case study here to hear more about the making-of:

www.worldlabs.ai/case-studies...

📻 Brazen brute bashes bank! Czar’s zealots embezzle zillions! Cops can't quell criminal caper! theshadowoftheczar.com is at large for @worldlabs.bsky.social launch!

‘Shadow’ is the jazz-infused film noir-style narrative game made for @bmildenhall.bsky.social and Dr. Fei-Fei Li's AI research team 🕵️

My new game launches this week

Don't let it sneak up on you

Don’t ask

Gaussian splats are the connecting thread everywhere. Meta doing room scans. Apple doing Personas and spatial scenes. Closing in on reality being scanned in

12 - East St Louis Toodle-oo - Ellington Effect composition workshops David Berger analyzes Duke Ellington's composition East St Louis Toodle-oo in detail.

This was Ellington's first charting hit! And evidently was originally pronounced "toad-low" and referred to a dance, not a goodbye

But I like the phonetics of "toodle-oo" better so let's stick w/ that courses.suchsweetthundermusic.com/ee12-east-st...

Shoutout to East St. Louis, giving y'all the ole "toodle-oo" for at least 100 years

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I've always liked the device - best HMD display there is. I had one at my old workplace but lost access when I left. I will probably wait for a true form-factor successor to spend my own money, but M5 is serious horsepower... Confident I could have some fun with it

Apple Vision Pro upgraded with the M5 chip and Dual Knit Band Apple introduced the upgraded Apple Vision Pro, featuring the powerful M5 chip, the Dual Knit Band, and innovative features with visionOS 26.

Yeah okay I'm back to wanting one

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New game announcement soon!

It'll be desktop/mobile-only at launch for a change, but of course I had to develop a mixed reality "stunt capture app" for it using WebXR 🤷 Check out that process along w/ a sneak peak of my next original title, and keep an eye out for more

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Sincerely doubt they have the organizational patience to make it successful at the scale they want. I bet they roll it up within a couple years. Everybody wants Roblox’s numbers but they don’t want to put in the decade-plus to build market share and platform

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

Amazing! I just went there yesterday for the first time. Thanks for your work on this!

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?

Character Animator / Technical Artist (VR) - Freelance | Notion Liquid City is a speculative design studio working at the intersection of AI, spatial computing and immersive media. We prototype future interfaces, virtual characters and intelligent environments, co...

📡 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

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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

The wall confronting large language models We show that the scaling laws which determine the performance of large language models (LLMs) severely limit their ability to improve the uncertainty of their predictions. As a result, raising their r...

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