Roger Küng

Implementing networking with hand tracking through the new avatar system of #Oculus makes the experience immediately more expressive and immersive (networked physics helps too 😉)

@tovanbo @QuestWithMatt Congrats on the release!

Laser Dance is just around the corner🕺 Make sure to catch the Early Access release on Meta Quest 3/3s tomorrow! 👉bit.ly/3W0huQf

I have been working on a turn base poker combat game the last few weeks and a playable version is finally available on itch (made in #bevy). It can be played in the browser directly and feedback would be highly appreciated! holonautic.itch.io/poker-slice-ad… #gamedev #indiedev

@verociity @bmfshow All us developers wanted was a section for applab games, not a merge of the two stores.

@bmfshow I don't mind having junk games in the app lab as it allows for innovation as some may be real winners, it's only a problem when all that unproven and uncurated junk sits among the actual quality games. There needs to be a separate section for app lab games again.

The Quest store downright sucks to be frank. Look at this list of the most recent releases on Quest. How in the world can there be so many GT clones. Half of them even use the same thumbnail as each other! This is just the last few days.

@EricPresidentVR You want your controllers to be wired to the headset? That sounds very inconvenient.

I love wireless VR I am irresponsible and will never have my battery management under control Please, no more battery based controllers, I only have so many remotes to borrow from and they are low also now I beg Plead🙏🙏🙏🙏

@daddy_muphasa @NathieVR Not unless you have a dev kit from Sony. You can apply for one.

@NathieVR Psvr won,but is it possible to test my indie game project on there ?

Quest 3 vs. PSVR2 hand tracking

@ArmedJ0y As a gamedev, I really like how valve enforces rules which allows us to continue to produce premium titles which can be sold at reasonable prices.

Double the Valve monopoly I don't care. We're coming off of news stories a few months back of AAA Devs wanting to start putting ads in games, and Valve just slams the door. Here for it, fuck off.

@AndyMorphs Thank you for worrying about us. It has indeed changed a lot. We are about to release our next game (beta starting this week), and really hope we manage to find a way that people can find it 😅.

I'm worried about VR Devs at the moment. Unless you build your game inside Horizon Worlds I don't see much getting pushed via the app

@bozoid @NathieVR Playing Civ 7 when it comes to the headset? I see myself out…

@NathieVR gaming is dead on Meta Horizon headset... tho I'll be celebrating to the death of this platform in Civilized form...

What ever happened to the official Meta Quest Gaming account? It’s been locked and the last post was back in September last year.

@MikaMobile Finally!

It's with both excitement and a lot of nerves that I can say that the DEMO of Zombieville USA 3D has now launched on #Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/1801520/Zo…

@GAMERTAGVR I would suggest Mr Gamertag rather than Gamertag MR ☺️

The terminology times be changing…

@benz145 I have seen many VR folks over at Bluesky, but haven’t found all of them yet. Hope it’s that and not that the interest in VR news is going lower, we barely have Christmas behind us.

I don’t know if VR Twitter is just quiet right now, or left Twitter for other platforms, but engagement on my posts seems way lower than usual over the last few months. Maybe they changed the algorithm 🤷‍♂️

@Heaney555 That is indeed not certain, then let’s assume they get 0%. Then still the reality labs part only grew revenue by 12% in 2024, this is not enough to be considered worth while to focus on for meta. So they have to shift strategy and focus on a segment with more growth potential.

@Aranir_Swift No, the massive flaw in this is that you're assuming Meta gets all the glasses revenue. In reality, we don't know it's shared with EssilorLuxottica.

Roughly the same number of people have bought Ray-Ban Meta glasses as have played the bundled Quest 3S game, yet the former is considered a "hit" and the latter is not 🤔

@Heaney555 Calculations are based on their last investor presentation and the leak of the number of ray bans sold. If you track the public numbers of reality labs you can see that the quest total revenue (including store etc.) appears to have decline since a while.

@Heaney555 Retention numbers and ray band glasses have growth, quest had roughly a 12% decline last year (based on my estimates). If quest is already declining with such a low cost device, and absolute hits like Batman, meta seems to have lost interest.

@Lunayian @James_Abev You mean because they put horizon world into the quest app instead of making it a separate app? Or because they have to compromise the visuals to be able to support VR at the same time?

@James_Abev I mean you can't have the "Metaverse" if the core is not also accessible (and appealing) on mobile. This is an area where things like Roblox, Fortnite, Rec Room etc. were very much ahead of the curve. That said, I think Meta's current strategy for mobile is very flawed.

@UploadVR He doesn't even mention VR or the Quest in his memo? Only Horizon Worlds... on mobile?

In a leaked memo, Meta's CTO told staff that 2025 will determine whether its hardware & metaverse division is "the work of visionaries or a legendary misadventure": uploadvr.com/meta-cto-to-st…

I made a thing, and it’s called Fling a Ding (working title 😅). It’s a physics based Highscore chaser, which my friends tell me is slightly addictive and made for mobile! Please check it out on itch: occuros.itch.io/fling-a-ding And let me know what think! #gamedev #indiedev

@rejotalin @halfof333Ai @PicturesFoIder Heavily depends where in Europe.

@halfof333Ai @PicturesFoIder If the taxes paid abroad are less than in the USA yes. So, if you move to Europe you’ll never pay, taxes are higher there.

1 day vs 10 years in the USA 📹: Radical Living

@_LucasRizzotto @Heaney555 Sometimes it feels like you are the only person that can actually read XR news.

@Heaney555 They are literally saying it's mostly driven by wearables dude lmao

Yet more evidence that Quest 3S is a huge success for Meta so far.

@AntoniaRForster Noooooo, not you too… but I can understand. I wish you the best on whatever comes next, let’s hope our paths cross again sometime.

After an amazing four years, I've decided to move on from my role at Unity. It feels surreal to write this. Unity didn't just change my career, it completely changed my life. Learning this engine (and C#) catapulted me into the tech industry, where I got to work alongside world experts, develop for cutting-edge devices, and help tens of thousands of creators bring their visions to life. I met and collaborated with people/studios that are a huge inspiration (and tried not to be starstruck!) - from @OwlchemyLabs to YouTube educators (@jweimann , @UnityCodeMonkey, @TurboMakesGames, @samyam_youtube) to @XR_Bootcamp, to the @creaturedotpage team, to countless industry stars. That's what I'll miss the most - meeting brilliant creators whose work I admire. I hope we stay in touch. 💗 Some people have called me “the face of Unity in XR" (!!) which is flattering but inaccurate. Firstly, because I am part of a huge collective. My colleagues at Unity are some of the most talented, brilliant and passionate folks I've ever met. But ultimately, the face of Unity is YOU, the community: the developers, artists, engineers, and dreamers who bring their ideas to life every day. This is especially true in XR, which is constantly evolving, shaped by your ideas and innovation. It's been a privilege to be part of that. I’m very excited about my next chapter! I'm staying in the world of XR as an engineer, focused on hands-on dev and deepening my technical skills. I'd like to continue sharing my expertise to help others too, at events or online. Now that I'm a free agent, I could even start a YouTube channel! 👀 To everyone who’s been part of this journey - thank you. Whether you are a colleague, collaborator, you used my tutorials, or we met at an event, I am so unspeakably grateful to all of you. And to anyone considering starting your own journey with Unity: go for it. You never know where it might take you. 🚀 #Unity3D #XR #GameDev @unity @DigitalTwin @unityAEC