The ARK Reactor

I've given a LOT of thought to how one could be built using existing technology today

Daven Bigelow Plays Halo On Quest 3 With Wine In a bedroom with one wall covered in boxes for VR headsets, Daven Bigelow used Wine to play the entire original Halo game with Quest 3.

The latest Recreation Room on Good Virtual Reality shows the space where Daven Bigelow plays Halo in VR. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/daven-bige...

Javier Davalos Rides An Electric Unicycle When He Isn't Building Figmin XR Among Reptiles Javier Davalos thinks about mixing realities while riding his electric unicycle.

Javier Davalos builds Figmin XR for a future that doesn't exist yet. Each day that future gets just a little bit closer.

Recreation Rooms | Good Virtual Reality | Ian Hamilton | Substack The spaces and rigs where people work and play in VR. Click to read Good Virtual Reality, by Ian Hamilton, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Good VR now has sections with Recreation Rooms representing something I’ve wanted to do for years and just didn’t have the space to make happen.

Hit the heart on these posts if you like these windows into the community & consider becoming a member. www.goodvirtualreality.com/s/recreation...

Who needs a kidney? They grow back, right????

3/3 Keep in mind, I'm not asking how PICO Swan & Steam Frame compare to each other, I'm asking how they compare against my current frame of reference, the Quest 3 as a wireless PCVR headset for visuals

2/3 Will I noticed a bigger improvement with Steam Frame's Foveated Streaming, but similar PPD to the Quest 3; or would the PICO Swan look better with it's 40PDD but not having Foveated Streaming?

1/3 I use Quest 3 & stream to via Wi-Fi 6 w/ 2.5Gbs hardwired backhaul from a AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 32 GB DDR5 6000MT, & an RTX 5070ti

What I want to know is, when the Steam Frame & the PICO Swan come out, which will the most noticeable visual improvements vs what I see stream to my Quest 3

me too, for ten years to be honest, but the last year has gone off the rails

'Experts In Virtual Reality' nDreams Restructures With 120 Remaining At Elevation A statement issued by nDreams paints a bleak picture for a studio positioned to develop in a very different VR market.

From 250 staff at nDreams in 2023 as "the world’s biggest VR game developer and publisher" to 120 after this restructure.

www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/experts-in...

Wincing here for multiple reasons.

1.) 120 might still make nDreams the largest VR game developer and publisher in the world.

2.) That’s still probably 5x or more the studio size that even the highest selling VR games could support right now. Many VR teams are still less than 5.

YouTube video by Matteo311 Is THIS the Best VR Hardware Setup?

Welcome back as we continue with our new VR headset series. Following up, "everything the Quest 3 does wrong," we now have everything the Quest 3 does RIGHT. I'm sure there are a few surprises for you in here!

Click here - youtu.be/kpE9PsX24TQ

Are they for real????

Resolution, PPD, and PPI aren’t the same things, but I’d be lying through my teeth if I didn’t acknowledge that how they’re different is very fuzzy for me

The demo for Alliance Tales: Battles for the Frontier wants to scratch that X-Wing/Wing Commander itch.

Read our impressions here: www.uploadvr.com/alliance-tal...

I just filed an article to Upload analyzing the headset numbers on the latest Steam hardware survey and why we all need to ignore it this month.

Short answer: Chinese New Year.

Nothing to see here. Stop writing your latest “(PC)VR is dead” article. Check back next month. 😊

Pico Seeks 'Experienced Users' To Sign An NDA For A 5-Week Project Swan Loaner Pico is looking for “experienced users” to test the upcoming “Project Swan” headset for at least 10 hours per week after they sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Pico is offering $ to experienced VR users to sign an NDA and report bugs in their upcoming headset. open.substack.com/pub/goodvr/p...

I only have so many kidneys and lobes of my liver I can sell… 👀

Pico's Next Headset Has 4K Micro-OLEDs, Powerful New Chip & Next-Gen OS ByteDance's Pico announced the key display and compute specs of its next headset, coming later this year, and detailed the revamped XR operating system it will run.

Pico's next headset will have 4K micro-OLED displays, a new chipset twice as powerful as the XR2 Gen 2, and a next-generation OS with visionOS-like features:

www.uploadvr.com/pico-project...

This is where you would see surprise if I was surprised

(point to my face)

😐

Good Virtual Reality Month 1 Exclusive comments from an Oculus founder and the heads of Khronos and Owlchemy Labs as well as a podcast with the most important VR developer in the world today.

A good first month for Good Virtual Reality.

Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to support my work. I am producing independently for the first time in my life supported by individuals allowing me to do this:

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The system ISN’T broken. It’s working as indented. Protect and empower the rich and powerful to do whatever they want at the expense of those with less or no money and agency.

Crime isn’t crime when you have this much money and power, it’s just cost of doing business

The real scary part for me is how conspiracy WASN’T needed. Is there conspiracy in TRUMP-Epstein Files? Of course there is. But if you pull back the parts that are conspiracy, EVERYTHING else isn’t a Deep State or Lizard People, it’s our “Systems” working as they should

Real

You mean something “shiny” that’s meant to distract us from the fact that President “Bone Spurs” is mentioned HEAVILY in the Epstein files?

But who cares if a lot innocent men, women, and children and service men and women pay the ultimate sacrifice if it distracts from what he did to children 👀

Carter Burke from Alien = Sam Altman ? Photos showing them looking nearly identical.

This meme I made a while ago seems apropos tonight:

I have no idea how I feel about this, but regardless, I think you might be right

Graphics Depicting Meta's Next Headset Found In Quest Firmware Graphics depicting Meta's upcoming ultralight headset with a tethered compute puck, codenamed Phoenix, have been found in Quest firmware.

Graphics depicting Meta's upcoming ultralight headset with a tethered compute puck, codenamed Phoenix, have been found in Quest firmware:

I didn’t know you could play PCVR games without making your PC cry… I… I didn’t know… 🥹🥹🥹

It’s cool that this is available at all, even flatscreen, but this really would great use case for VR education and training