Mike Nisbet

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Igalia is excited to announce a new commission from the Sovereign Tech Fund to advance the Servo web engine.

www.igalia.com/2025/10/09/I...

Evolution (abridged)

KA-KAWWW! In case you missed out on our booth at PAX West, our company has taken up bird watching... kinda. Peep Birdseed, a cozy nature-focused VR game where your goal is to snap the rarest birds in the most majestic (or wacky) poses. Learn more about Birdseed ➡️ buff.ly/VDJqFxG

#gamedev #indiedev

Thank you so much!! This is exactly what I wanted from the main OpenXR package, it will greatly speed up extension impl without needing to define types and functions. Looking forward to converting my package to use this when it reaches main release!

Announcement! I've been working on Unity support for the new OpenXR Spatial Entities extensions, and today we shipped a public native API in OpenXR Plug-in 1.16.0-pre.1: docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com...

This API is a pure C# port of the OpenXR spec, currently limited to spatial entities.

Yes, I finally got all the software I need to be a VR developer!

I did a bigger write-up on linked-in but I can finally go public with what I've been working on for the past 3 or so months.

OpenXR 1.1.49 adds the much awaited spatial entities extension. Thanks to funding from Khronos, Godot will support this API "today".

github.com/godotengine/...

OpenXR Spatial Entities Extensions Released for Developer Feedback The Khronos® OpenXR™ Working Group has released a groundbreaking set of OpenXR extensions that establish the first open standard for spatial computing, enabling consistent cross-platform support for p...

I can finally talk about this in the open, HURRAY! OpenXR 1.1.49 dropped today and one of the two big things I've had a small hand in is Spatial Entities support. Watch this space for more news soon!

www.khronos.org/blog/openxr-...

Poster of Kiki's Delivery Service but Kiki has been replaced with Bouba from the Kiki/Bouba linguistics study. The text reads "Bouba's Delivery Service."

It feels like this is the 5th overhaul or so? I just want a stable OS for our users 😭

Guess who is now live in the Meta Horizon Store?
👉😂🌱👈

www.meta.com/en-gb/experi...

#VR #Vivarium #MetaQuest #VRgames #VirtualReality

GitHub - mikeskydev/energy-globe: World electricity consumption split out per source, on a three.js globe. World electricity consumption split out per source, on a three.js globe. - mikeskydev/energy-globe

Aw man I know it’s new but I wish I knew about this last week for github.com/mikeskydev/energy-globe! time for an update :)

I’ve oddly experienced the same when demoing VR, players pulling the opposite trigger/grip to the one I said to

Multiplayer painting is now live!

Collaborate, chat, draw with friends, show off or just allow others to explore your worlds. Cross platform, free and open source forever. Get it on Steam, Meta, Itch and other stores.
#vr #vrart #tiltbrush #openbrush

I think OpenXR suffered from design by committee; heavily based on Vulkan conventions which a lot of developers never need to think about.

Only very recently I’ve seen working group outreach to ask what developers actually *want* from the API, and it’s mostly OpenVR features!

Feature: Plugin Scripting | Open Brush Docs

Teaser... Coming soon: docs.openbrush.app/alternate-an...

It's very cool and expands the features of Open Brush in a lot of interesting ways. We just want to get multiplayer officially released before we hit you all with this :-)

“XR” was right there, Boz.

Doesn’t even need to be Thread to fall over, my WiFi Matter plugs continuously dropped from Google Home. Home Assistant saved the day as usual, but I’ve got time and patience to tinker with that, it’s hopeless for the average user.

I can understand keeping it for the other options the feature offers, but there must be a huge benefit if Quest could use the cross platform loader? Otherwise, you’re still stuck with at least 2 Android builds for popular platforms…

Thanks for the info! I’ll certainly post in discussions, but essentially my main wish is to have the entire spec autogenerated into C# like the official OpenXR SDK has for C++. It would certainly speed up building my plugin!

In light of this, I’m happy to announce I’ve received funding from my old employer, SideQuest, to expand my OpenXR Unity extension plugin further! Let’s all move away from vendor SDKs and make OpenXR truly cross platform. github.com/mikeskydev/u...

By the way, is there any chance of joining the team from the UK, or making it possible to contribute my extensions? I’d love to expand Unity’s OpenXR support across the entire API’s capabilities and get everyone off those vendor SDKs!

unity-openxr-extensions/Editor/FeatureBuildHooks/OpenXRAndroidSettingsBuildHook.cs at main · mikeskydev/unity-openxr-extensions Cross-platform OpenXR extensions for Unity. No vendor bloat. - mikeskydev/unity-openxr-extensions

Will the dependency on the Meta Quest Support feature be deprecated soon? hard to deploy cross platform on a single APK currently, I ended up making my own feature to alter the manifest in my plugin: github.com/mikeskydev/u...

Promising, but I’ll reserve judgement until I see the changes they’ve made. In the meantime, I’m still working on my plugin to deploy a single binary for all VR headsets.

H/T to @uploadvr.com, @kentbye.com, Guy and Matthieu for their work bringing this to light developers.meta.com/horizon/blog...

I can’t wait for a lovely tutorial showcasing how to build for Meta Quest with OpenXR… :) bsky.app/profile/uplo...

GitHub - mikeskydev/unity-openxr-extensions: Cross-platform OpenXR extensions for Unity. No vendor bloat. Cross-platform OpenXR extensions for Unity. No vendor bloat. - mikeskydev/unity-openxr-extensions

This anti-openness is why I went about developing my own version of their extensions that can still be used cross platform: github.com/mikeskydev/u...

Meta's Unity & Unreal "OpenXR" Integrations Block Other PC VR Headsets Meta's Unity and Unreal "OpenXR" SDKs block other PC VR headsets, going against the spirit of the standard, and developers aren't happy about it.

Meta's Unity and Unreal "OpenXR" SDKs block other PC VR headsets, going against the spirit of the standard, and developers aren't happy about it:

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Overclockers is having a fun time

Companies that are members and paid for the official CTS pass, right?

I dig into the allegation Meta has been deliberately undermining the @openxr.org standard by blocking apps on PCVR that are non-Meta HMDS or if they're not using Oculus Link. Virtual Desktop's Guy Godin corroborates many of the claims first made by Matthieu Bucchianeri
voicesofvr.com/1526-allegat...