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My disappointment in not being invited since the year they changed it from "Oculus Connect" is finally fading.

GitHub - truefranco/MetaXRv77: Just a quick temporary update to MetaXR for Unreal 5.5 Until Oculus release the Official Just a quick temporary update to MetaXR for Unreal 5.5 Until Oculus release the Official - truefranco/MetaXRv77

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Meta Quest Unreal Engine devs on UE5.6 -

Since Meta updates are on a long lag now I was searching for a way to test my Meta pawn tech in 5.6 and I found out TrueFranco has a fixed up v77 MetaXR plugin here on github if you have need. Link below:

I know man I completely agree 😅

AI is getting so good that realistic graphics might end up boring.

Sometimes it's about where you are at.

This is the product design to aim at for gamers using lightweight XR wearables.

Zuck is making the right moves big picture for Meta but it is also ok to mourn the shift.

Very powerful dynamic not working in a box with flourescent lighting.

While working with Unreal Engine 5 in the Apple Vision Pro you often get inspired from your remote office.

Lol I don't care what you allow 🫡

It's a good point but thinking Skyrim is bigger than general computing isn't looking at how the world around us operates after the computer age established itself.

If I'm playing VRChat I should be able to fallback into flat mode, while MR shows passthrough in my living room, but I don't have to leave the game. It simply goes flat into a window then back to full VR at will.

If I'm using Blender in Quest I should have it flat with the option to toggle into hybrid XR states, showing model etc.

Been having conversations with Jonathan Chavez on X and I really think as we see flat software port into Quest and Vision pro this is going to get extremely obvious to the insdustry.

A hybrid 3d modeling app in XR should have a default flat state to jump off from.

In hindsight escapism won't win XR. The streamlining of our current 2D world will and then the escapism is there for those interested.

Similar to the purpose of a computer itself. It was for data before we made it do games.

Past decade of VR we put the cart before the horse...

2014 Project Jump Scare Unity demo - YouTube Project Jump Scare started in 2014 as an experimental DK2 VR horror demo pioneering making artificial locomotion comfortable with FOV reduction in the very e...

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Sharing a piece of lore about myself!

I discovered HMD FOV reduction experimenting on the original Project Jump
Scare Unity demo in 2014.

Pitched it at VR conferences and meetups like Oculus Connect, SVVR, OCVR, and LAVR.

Google and Meta employees gave "wows" during DK2 demos and it soon became a comfort standard.

Jet lag from a 12 hour you can't sleep on makes everything in life unappealing for the day ✈️🤢

Reminds me of early Oculus dev days fighting through VR sim sickness 😮‍💨

Quest 3 night cycle needs a unique tune for weather, fog, and lighting compared to iOS / visionOS metal shaders after testing- but Project Jump Scare day/night is still wild inside the headset! 🥹

wasn't sure this would work without a parallel system. Feels so great to hit it 😭🎯🚀

Meta Quest using Open XR hand tracking never worked for me in UE before 🥳

Tempting to fix and consolidate to a single pawn rather than wait for Meta XR plugin for UE5.6

Hard choice. Lose features or erase long tech debt. 🤔😮‍💨

At least it works after the iOS / VisionOS push!

I still think this is inevitable.

Tend to agree. It's a cop out- but I do think "new AI XR products" show us.

If we're thinking of it as a spatial layer both irl and in virtual space there is potentially an inevitability all technology interfaces in this matrix.

So we will sit in this spatial web able to access it in many ways.

My object tracking prediction in XR might land sooner than I expected now that Controllers are officially moving into peripheral devices. 🤗

Remember when I was saying years ago motion controllers will become peripheral devices for XR product design.

The spatial medium is what mainstreams- headsets are only one vector to access it.

Glasses will do great bc of AI XR combo but not everyone wants to wear glasses.

Likely long term all devices have spatial understanding and HMDs or glasses are simply one way to access it.

does the Samsung Odyssey 3D TV justify my pipe dream for a "Steam Deck 3DS"

Agree completely

I have a strange affinity for it. This and Quest 1 are very special to me.