Unseen Reality VR

@Play_for_dream Great read. The best VR is the kind you forget you're wearing. Comfort and form factor are the real barriers to mainstream adoption — not just specs on paper. Excited to see this becoming a design priority 👏

@RtoVR This is huge for VR gaming. Cloud streaming at 90 FPS across multiple headsets means access to high-end PC games without the hardware investment. This could be a real game changer for adoption 🎮

NVIDIA's Cloud Gaming Now Supports up to 90 FPS on Quest, Vision Pro & Pico Headsets See more 👉roadtovr.com/geforce-now-qu…

@NathieVR Really sad news. Lynx was one of the few pushing standalone MR forward with a genuinely unique approach. Losing independent hardware makers like this is a blow to the whole ecosystem — we need more competition, not less. Hope the team lands on their feet 🙏

Super sad to hear that Lynx has entered liquidation. It was the first headset where I truly experienced mixed reality, opening my eyes to how VR and AR could one day merge.

@Microinteracti1 The metaverse concept isn't dead — Meta's execution of it was just fundamentally flawed. Real VR innovation is happening in gaming, social apps, and indie studios that actually understand what users want. The future of VR won't be built by throwing billions at legless avatars 💀

Eighty billion dollars. Gone. To build a digital ghost town where legless cartoons stood around doing nothing, because Mark Zuckerberg looked at Facebook – a website people use to congratulate their guinea pig on its birthday – and thought: what this needs is a worse version of reality. He was wrong. Historically, catastrophically, trouserlessly wrong.

@UnityCodeMonkey VR is definitely still niche but the community is passionate and growing! A Getting Started tutorial is a great idea — more beginner-friendly content is exactly what the space needs to bring in new developers 🔥

Sadly it seems interest in VR is still low, it's an awesome magical industry but I guess still quite niche. I will still do a Getting Started tutorial though

The numbers really put things in perspective. Both Meta and Apple went big on spatial computing but the market just was not ready yet. The key question now is who will get the form factor and price point right to bring it mainstream. Lightweight, affordable XR glasses could change everything.

Meta 12.5兆円、Apple 約9割減産、Microsoft撤退。 GAFAMがメタバースに突っ込んだ結果がエグい。 Meta：累計12.5兆円の赤字、予算30%カット。 Apple：Vision Pro約9割減産、開発1年凍結。 Microsoft：HoloLens生産終了、220億ドルの軍事契約も移管。 Google：まだ本格参入すらしてない。 で、一番ダメージが少ないのAmazonっていう。 Amazonは「メタバースを作る側」やなくて「作る人にインフラを売る側」で参入してた。 ゴールドラッシュで整理するとこうなる。 Meta：金を掘りに行った（12.5兆円の赤字）。 Apple：最高級のツルハシを作った（50万円で誰も買えん）。 Microsoft：軍に売ろうとした（兵士が頭痛と吐き気を報告）。 Amazon：ツルハシを売った（AWS経由で黒字）。 Google：鉱脈の調査だけした（損失最小）。 ちなみにMicrosoftの220億ドル軍事契約を引き継いだのはAnduril。 創業者のパーマー・ラッキーさんはOculus VRをMetaに20億ドルで売った人。 Metaが手放した「人材」が、別の会社で最大の軍事契約を引き継いだ。 同じ市場で5社の判断がここまで割れる。あなたの事業、「掘る側」と「売る側」どっちにいる？

@SkarredGhost End of an era for Horizon Worlds on Quest. The VR version had so much potential but the execution never quite matched the ambition. Hopefully this means Meta will focus their energy on what actually works for Quest users going forward.

RIP Horizon Worlds on Quest #VirtualReality #Meta #MetaQuest

@SadlyItsBradley Apple clearly has people on the visionOS team who genuinely care about the developer experience. Good release notes make such a difference when you are building for a new platform. Shows they are investing in the ecosystem beyond just hardware.

Give the guy who wrote these release notes a raise They truly have their priorities in the right places

@BenGeskin VR sim racing is one of those experiences that instantly sells people on the technology. Once you feel that sense of speed and depth in a headset, flat screens just can't compete. Great to see first timers having that reaction!

My younger brother came over to the studio to try VR sim racing 🏎️ He’s been racing on a simulator for a while, but this was his first time in VR, and he was impressed. “It’s a whole experience,” he said. Way more immersive than a flat screen. You actually feel like you’re inside the car, and the sense of speed hits completely different. He loved it.

@dreamwieber NVIDIA CloudXR 6.0 with native Swift support is a game changer for Vision Pro developers. RTX level graphics via wireless streaming opens up so many possibilities for high fidelity XR experiences. Really exciting times for the visionOS ecosystem.

More fun stuff coming to visionOS

The pivot from VR to smartphone only is a bold move. Dropping 3DGS import too makes it feel like Meta is stepping away from immersive experiences altogether. Curious to see if the mobile version can retain the same creative community that made Horizon interesting in the first place.

なんと。Metaが社名すら変えて取り組んでいたメタバースの「Horizon World」ですが、VR=Quest向けを廃止してスマートフォン対応に完全に方向転換するみたいですね 3DGSのインポートも廃止されて元のHyperscape Previewアプリでの鑑賞に戻るようです communityforums.atmeta.com/blog/Announcem…

Really insightful take from someone who was actually inside Reality Labs. The disconnect between what builders wanted to create and what management prioritized is probably the biggest lesson here. The tech was never the problem, it was the vision for how people would actually use it.

As someone who worked at Reality Labs: the Metaverse had real legs but was obliterated by middle management completely out of touch with how young people actually use technology. I built a V1 tool that game developers genuinely needed, and the moment it was done, it got shipped to a team in London (to die), and I was reassigned to a "higher-priority project" that zero developers asked for. Multiply that by every team, and you'll understand why this never took off yet cost 80 billion.

@AugmenosAVP @AppStore Congrats on the App Store feature! Museas 3 looks like a fantastic use case for Vision Pro. Bringing museums into spatial computing is such a natural fit. Will definitely check it out!

For all museum lovers out there: last week I launched Museas 3 and it's been featured on the @AppStore "New this Week" on #AppleVisionPro 🙂. Please give it a download and drop a review if you enjoy it! apps.apple.com/app/museas/id6…

Shutting down Hyperspace captures so quickly after launch is really frustrating for creators who invested time into it. Meta keeps pivoting faster than the community can keep up. Would love to connect, we are building in the VR space too and always looking to chat with fellow creators!

Just a few months after launching Hyperscape captures, Meta is shutting down the co-experiencing feature at the end of March.

@kenn Great analysis. The platform dependency on Apple and Google for mobile distribution is a real challenge for Meta. It shows why owning the hardware layer matters so much in this space. Curious to see how the shift to mobile only plays out for Horizon long term.

Metaはユーザー接点で苦しんできた ブラウザには動かせないWeb標準の制約があり モバイルはApple様やGoogle様の言いなり 月間35億人が使うプラットフォームの広告収益も その下にいるプラットフォーマーの気まぐれで 3rdパーティークッキー止めますと言われたら バリュープロップの半分が死ぬみたいな 結構な薄氷の上を歩いている危機感がある それを克服するためにVR界では帝王となり ユーザー接点のデバイスを借り物ではなく 所有しているポジションを取りたかった ところがAIエージェントの台頭で システムを使うのが人間じゃなくなる未来がチラつき UIの面を取ることの価値が揺らぎ始めてしまい VRどころじゃなくなった 実際、AIへのインターフェースが音声主体になるだけでも Metaのビジネスモデルには大打撃となりうる ユーザー → サービス から ユーザー → エージェント → サービス という中間層が爆誕したことで 「エージェントの面を取る」のが急務となった 今、世の中では これまでのあらゆるビジネス基盤がぐらついている

Totally agree. Giving creators more freedom to build what they want is what made platforms like VRChat thrive. It is a missed opportunity for Horizon. We are working on lightweight VR glasses in the same space, would love to connect and exchange thoughts on where social VR is heading next!

Meta Horizon WorldsのVR版が終了へ。結局、最後まで迷走し続けましたね。VRChatのようにクリエイターに自由を与えて勝手に作らせればよかったのに、自分らでコントロールしたいという気持ちが強すぎたのが最大の失敗。まあ、Metaのいつものやり方ですが。

@sutoroveli_news Atlas keeps getting more impressive with every update. The fact that it can now autonomously correct its own movements through deep learning is a huge leap forward for humanoid robotics. Exciting times for the whole robotics and AI space.

【速報】Boston DynamicsのAtlasが人間を超える動きを見せている。360度回転する関節でジャンプ後の着地をミリ秒で補正し深層学習で歩行を自ら最適化する段階に入った。

Sad to see Horizon Worlds leaving Quest headsets. It was one of the first social VR platforms we tried. As Horizon will still be available on mobile, we are launching lightweight VR glasses this summer that connect to your phone, so you will still be able to enjoy Horizon and other mobile VR experiences in a fully immersive way.

Horizon Worlds is officially being discontinued on Meta Quest headsets. You will no longer be able to access Horizon Worlds at all on the headset and unfortunately Hyperspace co-op rooms are going away as well which is a real travesty. This is both exciting and sad honestly. Sad for those who spent so much time building worlds. Exciting to see Meta continues its streamlining of the Quest platform towards VR gaming.

The transition from bulky goggles to sleek sunglasses form factor is the key to mass adoption. Once VR headsets become something you actually want to wear outside, everything changes. Pancake optics and split compute architectures are making this possible faster than most people realize.

From Goggles to Glasses: VR's Makeover Has Begun 🕶️ What if your VR headset one day looked just like a pair of sunglasses?

@TinaDebove @studiomeije @tom_krikorian Love seeing visionOS development happening across different cities. The spatial computing developer community is growing fast and it is great that teams like Studio Meije are building cool apps for the platform. Can't wait to hear more about what you all are working on!

the @studiomeije dev team is flying to hamburg today, for another visionOS project we're finally going to talk more about our apps in the near future!