Nima

On visionOS 26.3 Beta, ok there is ray casting targeting with PS VR 2 Controllers in the Accessibility setting I have never seen before. It says Index Finger but it is smoother with the PS VR controller and I think it remaps to it. I swear their accessibility team is amazing.

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Ever thought your Game Boy Camera could use a bit of an upgrade? Why not try out the Camera+ mod? You could be snapping up some crispy pixel photos in no time!
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#gameboy #gbstudio #gamedev

Story replay feature We plan to implement a feature that lets you replay the story missions from each nation that serve as the starting point for your adventures. You will be able to play up to rank 10 without having to create a new character. The conditional branching based on your gameplay status at any given time is highly complex, so this feature is going to take a lot of time and patience to complete. We'll also need to be extra diligent in regards to introducing new bugs while working on the content. However, we feel that this feature will allow you to relive your favorite stories, make new discoveries, and also deepen your appreciation of Vana'diel, so we are also considering offering some kind of reward for utilizing this feature.

Stat upgrade system (tentative name) We will be implementing a new system that lets you upgrade the alter egos' stats. It works by allowing you to spend upgrade points, which you can earn through everyday activities during your adventures. These points can be used to strengthen your alter egos overall, thereby raising their basic stats. We're currently hard at work on this feature with the goal of releasing it in March 2026! ・Alter ego equipment system (tentative name) We plan to add a feature that enables you to utilize dedicated equipment for your alter egos, kind of like how the puppetmaster attachments work. The plan is to make the equipment obtainable even when playing solo, and we are also looking into the possibility of using some existing content and crafting systems.

Integration of the home point and survival guide systems Currently, there are several NPCs that allow you to teleport, but we feel that it's too difficult in the game to know which NPCs can teleport you to which destinations. In order to fix this problem, we're currently looking to see if we can't combine at least some of the portals. Our first step will be to start with something fairly simple: merging the teleportation function of the home point and the survival guide features. ・Improved character growth guidance Immediately after creating a new character, you can use the auto acceptance function of the Records of Eminence objectives in order to view a guide of the minimum necessary steps to develop your character. Our plan is to create a system that will merge both new and existing goals into a single path, and inform you of any subsequent steps that you should take.

Improvements to the development and admin environment Although this likely does not concern any of you directly, we have discovered numerous items that need to either be created or fixed as quickly as possible in order to ensure that the game continues to operate smoothly. Of these, discontinued support for older technologies due to OS version upgrades as well as the rapid introduction of more advanced technologies will make it difficult to keep Vana'diel up and running as time goes on. Therefore, we are giving priority to the following measures. ・An update that fixes an issue that could prevent the PlayOnline Viewer from running properly under certain conditions. ・Removing certain essential hardware from the development environment. ・Improvements to the tools used to manage the various resources that make up the game. In order to minimize the risk of service disruptions, we have postponed some UI-related quality-of-life features, such as the ability to register blue magic sets and adjustments to the Assist Channel. We appreciate your understanding regarding this matter.

Final Fantasy XI New Year's post is full of plans for 2026 that give me a lot of hope for the game's longevity.
Trust upgrades, consolidating some confusing teleport systems, and the start of a story replay system like XIV's NG+

So good. Been playing it a lot recently.

It’s still around! Live shows in Vegas every week and competitions twice a year! Gets millions of views every time they release a new video.

The humanoid form is very useful if the robot is being used for entertainment use cases.

The robots are here, in the sense that there are finally humanoid robots you can actually buy that actually can self-balance and walk around and you can actually program them.

They do nothing out of the box, but neither do PCs. You need to write software for them.

While fixing bugs for #picotron 0.2.2 I ended up yak-shaving quite far into future features, so here's what native window exports look like.

tldr: export -n foo.bin to get a binary that runs as an arbitrary sized window directly on the host desktop.

@cix.bsky.social @nimaz.bsky.social @fewerwrong.org

We’re doing REK office hours in SF this Friday so devs visiting for Meta Connect might get a chance to meet the REK Robots! Sign up on Meetup if you want to come!

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Fruit Golf is OUT NOW in early access on Meta Quest and mobile!

🍉 Tee off solo in VR or with friends in any mix of VR & mobile devices

🍋 Pick from a variety of fruit balls & zesty courses

🍍 Act as saboteurs by placing obstacles & traps to mess up golfers

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[Tokyo] #picotachi vol.74 tonight at @picopicocafe.bsky.social
in Kichijoji // starts 7pm // 5-minute microtalks start ~8pm // with: @farfama.bsky.social, @illuminesce.net, @miguedorta.bsky.social & more! Info: picotachi.com

⭐ ☕ cafe open from 5pm

Last night we had another great XR Tokyo meetup; with big thanks to our speaker @fewerwrong.org for sharing with us her really engaging and insightful dissection of the XR runtime.

Thank you also to everyone who attended. The community energy is really growing and it's an exciting time for XR.

Many such cases (literally me)

I remember seeing the Hip Gear display at Toys R Us as a kid and thinking it was the COOLEST THING IN THE WORLD!

An LCD display mounted on your controller?!? That basically makes the PS2 into a handheld!

I was lucky enough to get the final (and best) batch of the HyperFlash32. It came with all the bells and whistles AND a 3-color eInk panel (I got red, white, and black but the yellow looks cool with WarioLand VB IMO).

And the reason I used the ~ symbol is because it’s analog and inexact.

It actually fluctuates between 47 and 52 fps! Depends on your specific hardware, weather, movement of the device, etc.

Due to its SLA display, it’s worse than just 50fps! There’s zero persistence of each pixel column.

Each display updates at ~39Khz!

It scans each of the 384 columns once per frame, then blanks back for the same time, ~50 times a second! So:

~100 fps
~50 blanks
~50 sweeps of red pixel columns

Hey #VR people, does anyone know of a replacement for the panorama feature of the Google camera app that used to be to create stereo panoramas? The latest update removed it

How does ROLLBACK NETCODE work, why is it so difficult to program, and why is it the gold standard for fighting games? A whirlwind tour of different solutions #pixelart #gamedev #AnimationVERSUS

The setup: you have a video game with couch co-op and want to add online multiplayer. Easy, right...?

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Ceding techno optimism to the right is a generational scale mistake

At the Game Boy Photowalk by @gaemz.bsky.social

I’m so sorry to hear that! This sort of grifting is so bad for the web ecosystem…

A screenshot of a Twitter post from my former Twitter handle, @arobertlong, with my profile picture posting about a Mozilla Hubs ICO.

lol great. Because I didn’t keep my Twitter account and actually deleted it, there’s now a ICO for @mozilla.org Hubs coin. Things are going great on Twitter 😂

Nima pointing at a cardboard cutout of a Wizardry character

The Steins;Gate merch pop up

Delicious looking Japanese curry with pork belly on top

A showcase at a store with the DiverX gloves and other VR equipment in it

I had the best time in Akiba this weekend catching up with my old friend from elementary school!

We went to the Wizardry pop-up event and museum, saw Steins;Gate 15th Anniversary merch pop-up, had the best Japanese curry of my life, and across from it, found the best store in Akiba for VR gear!

Mission Complete 😎

Tonight’s event has begun. It’s great turnout and speaker Nima Zeighami is in full swing giving us a great talk on the history and importance of Stereoscopic 3D in XR.

#xr #vr #ar #tokyo

Gotta Drink ‘Em All!

At Cafe La Siesta, there are 12 special drinks called the Cocktail Monsters. When you order a drink named after a monster, you get a matching badge. You pin the badges on a matching Cocktail Monsters tote bag.

Across 6 months and 4 trips to Kyoto, I’ve finally drank them all!