Biggs ᯅ

Horrible news. Loved your work since the start.

Keep your head up Ian good luck.

I’ve been fired from UploadVR.

Might be time for Blake J Harris to update The History of The Future

I'm wondering if there is a Steam Frame capability that maybe spooked Meta where they can't close some sort of technological gap in a reasonable product cycle...

If Meta is indeed shifting away from VR and layoffs in those teams are any indication... then that’s a tough moment for the medium.

This is a prediction I made over a year ago that I hoped it wouldn’t come true:

My Apple Vision Pro Hybrid XR pawn using a Dualsense controller

New Years Eve has me think on my past.

10 years ago my demo for Oculus DK2 exhibited at SVVR-

"Project Jump Scare"

After working on many VR titles this past decade I've made a resolution to make Project Jump Scare ship in 2026.

May your own dreams come true.

Happy New Year all!

Meta Start Hackathon submission:

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Meta Start Hackathon results are out!

Didn’t take the hand interaction prize, but the locomotion system performed well enough that it’s now the primary locomotion method for our Apple Vision Pro build.

Thanks to everyone who followed along and shared feedback.

One of the biggest mistakes I've made in my career is repeatedly helping big corporate employees without any form of compensation.

Be aware who you help and why they need you to solve their lack of capability. Negotiate at the very start.

Thankless types to say the least.

Original Meta Start Hackathon submission:

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UE5 Hand Tracking Locomotion ported to Apple Vision Pro!

Brought over my Meta Start Competition tech submission over with great results.

Not a bad land before Holiday break!

Video Demonstration:
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Final submission for the Meta Horizon Start Developer Competition 2025!

Solved a recurring XR design problem using a unified input abstraction layer that adapts locomotion systems across:

•Meta Quest hand tracking
•VisionOS gesture input
•iOS touch
•PC / mouse / gamepad

Meta Horizon Start Developer Competition 2025 final video - Project Jump Scare's hand tracked locomotion system! 🤗🎮

Sneak Peek #3 👀 - Hand Locomotion traversal with no controllers. 🎮🤗

Last day of Meta's XR Hackathon! 🚢

Sneak Peek #2 👀 - Hand Locomotion Yaw and Jump that are similar to the traditional controller input systems 🎮🤗

One more sneak peek left for Meta's XR Hackathon 🫡

Sneak peak! 👀 - Motion Controller to Hand Tracking is a small part of what I've worked on for Meta's Hackathon 🤗

How's the Project Jump Scare desktop build looking Chat?

Frame rate from VR optimizations should make this run well even on Deck. We'll see!

🙇🏻

Thank you btw means a lot 🙏

I haven't seen this approach. I'm currently shoring up a Meta build for December but coming back to this asap after.

Don't disagree. I think it spikes for years too.

why did you ruin this for me

why is my retro gaming full of anime girls

Softcore gaming?

Grew up wishing I could go, seeing it in game mags, reading everything.

Finally reached it but witnessed at the end a few years of a rapidly declining event.

Still I am lucky I caught the tail end of old E3 before the descent. I felt that energy. It was a gamedev pilgrimage. 🥺

Something about the Nintendo games

I'm at E3 and dude hands me this. "What's Twitch?" I say

I then have many beers and it never came off the keychain🍻

should have been killed with fire at birth