Virtual Strangers

When a dude with an accordion rolls up on a lawnmower, you know it’s about to get real. Steve’n’Seagulls turn “Thunderstruck” into a hoedown and I am here for it.

I took an AVP spatial photo of my daughter during her newborn photography session (her first week of birth) I fed that stereo image into the model. And seeing the results nearly made me want to cry It’s amazing that I will be able to show her this splat when she’s older

I tried out that newly released Apple “single image to gaussian splat” model today It’s actually incredible. Unlike the current spatial scenes feature, you can actually WALK INTO the memory you captured on your phone It only took about 10 seconds on my MacBook Pro to generate

We shared an AUTOMA demo with a few VR creators & press today — with a twist: this version includes several brand-new immersive-sim interactions that weren’t in the announce footage 👀 So let’s make a bit of a game of it: Who’ll discover the new interactions first? @GAMERTAGVR @UploadVR @BeardoBenjoYT @bmfshow @VRtualStrangers, PSVR2 Without Parole Good luck! 🔍🤖 #AUTOMA #VR #PSVR2 #PCVR

Horizon Call of the Mountain on PSVR2 is STILL on another level visually. EVERYTHING feels cinematic. In hindsight (and current day) this was definitely a Day 1 masterpiece on #PSVR2. #HorizonCallOfTheMountain #VR #IWentInside @FirespriteGames 4K: youtu.be/DSVrEBhA6DU?si…

@theXRman But that $200 fee is a drop in the bucket next to the shit contract you probably agreed to so that you could have a nice phone for an affordable price. If they're faced with you eating the termination fee and leaving, they'll eventually bend.

@theXRman Kepp the $15 add on for a month or two, then call back and remove it. (I was this specialist for 3 years, in my younger days.) They are trained to give as little as they can to keep you content.

Help me make sense of this $629 phone bill nightmare... My wife just came out of surgery and wanted to call my grandmother to let her know she was okay. She accidentally dialed her landline instead of her cell phone and they talked for 90 minutes. A few weeks later, we get a bill from @TMobile for $300 for that single call. After spending another 90 minutes with @TMobileHelp, they said they could lower it by $20! But if I pay $15/month, then future calls like this would be “free.” 🤯 How is this still a thing in 2025? Charging hundreds for a simple call, to your own family, in the age of unlimited everything? #TMobile #PhoneBillShock #CustomerServiceFail #HowIsThisLegal

From day one, this community has been amazing. Thanks for backing our very first launch and supporting our mission to bring brilliant flatscreen games to VR. Happy birthday Trombone Champ: Unflattened! 🎺🎂

Congratulations to @AndrewEhrenrei1 for winning the Community Style Run 🥳 Thank you to everyone that participated, every clip was so fun and amazing to watch 🤩

Hey PSVR2 people, an update: Zero Caliber VR is entering its (hopefully) last round of certification next week - we're currently expecting an end of November, early December release. Sorry it's taking longer than expected, but it's gonna be 🔥

We’re officially entering the “can’t sit still anymore” phase. 🤩 🤖 Roboquest VR launches on PS VR2 and SteamVR in 1 week!

The offer still stands! Your dream Capybara farm in the middle of the jungle at 45% off.

Into Black is out now PS VR2! store.playstation.com/en-us/concept/… Loot, mine, craft and survive, solo or with up to four players co-op, and discover why critics are calling it “A deserving nominee for VR Game of the Year” #PSVR2 #PlayStationVR2 #IntoBlack #OutNow #SurviveTheDepths #VR

I wasn’t sure if we were the first game to support this! It could have been earlier, but working on the Switch 2 port took a huge amount of my time this year! I just couldn’t find the time to finish the feature - even last week it was 50-50 that this would make it into Voyagers!

Just a little taste of what’s possible in Sky Runner’s awesome level editor! 🚁

I know I'm not the only one waiting for the amazing team at @TheBinaryMill to bring RUSH VR to PSVR2! 🤣 Retweet if you're with me, so they have proof there is still interest. I'd pay for it again, even if there was no upgrade path. It's a VR CLASSIC! @parolePSVR #PSVR2 #PS5

UEVR Addons & Plugins Most people don’t seem to know about the rapidly growing collection of fantastic UEVR addons / plugins in ⁠ue-addons. You can make UEVR do almost anything you’ve wanted - markmon 's Index controller plugin adds a ton of quality of life features and abilities for people using UEVR with Index controllers, - hookman ’s auto scaler helps keep frame rates steady by dynamically changing the render scale throughout your play through (also see his screen percentage mod), - FPS Enhanced lets you see your game’s fps and frame times in a graph for your game to tweak and get settings just right, - joeyhodge ’s AltDpad adds additional alt ways of using Dpad buttons, - @黃大丙 Dabinn ’s freecam plugin lets you easily move around scenes and better see some of the beautiful things in games up close, - Universal CVAR plugin lets you easily browse through and change all of a game’s CVARS (hidden settings in a game). It also has a tab to save favorites and to compare against default settings that might improve performance, - UEVR DualSense lets you access all UEVR’s menus and settings with a DualSense controller, - UEVR Button & Gesture Mapper lets you easily remap any button to a key or button or turn gestures into buttons, - Cutscene fixer can detect cutscenes in a game and set ideal watching conditions for a more pleasant experience, - Only Show UE Games In Dropdown + Auto Inject adds a beautiful Fluent theme to UEVR and also makes it so it auto injects and never shows things other than your game in the drop down menu
, - + more!

It isn't everyday I get to interview an Emmy winner (for his work building an interactive VR entertainment experience called "Wolves in the Walls" that blew my mind. Was the first to hand me a virtual item in such and talk with me inside a Holodeck. So awesome to catch up with Edward Saatchi and talk about his new company @fablesimulation and where the Holodeck is going next. ChatGPT wrote these notes about what you will learn by watching my interview: ++++++++++++ 🎬 What You’ll Learn from Edward Saatchi, CEO of Fable and Creator of Showrunner: The Future of Storytelling How AI is transforming movies into playable, user-driven worlds—think of watching a show, then remixing it into your own scenes the next day. The Holodeck is Real (Almost) What NVIDIA, Meta, and creators like Saatchi are doing to make the sci-fi Holodeck a near-future reality—blending LLMs, VR, and generative video. From Cinema to Simulation Why the next art form isn’t passive film or gaming—but something in between: AI-powered simulations populated by intelligent characters. The Role of the Artist Has Changed Directors become world-builders. Think: “Build Springfield, and let Springfield generate The Simpsons.” AI’s Cultural Moment Is Not About Cheap VFX Saatchi argues we shouldn’t waste AI on cost-cutting Pixar knockoffs—but instead embrace it as the foundation for new art movements. Playable IP Is the Future Imagine watching a Star Wars movie Friday, and by Sunday, fans have made thousands of new episodes using the same AI model. That’s the dream. A New Type of Social Network? In the age of AI-generated shows, what happens when every high school has its own AI drama? You might get a million versions of “Akron High.” Virtual Beings with Real Context Why convincing characters need more than chat—they need lives, families, coworkers, and a world to live in. Art as Reflection of Chaos Like the modernists after WWI, Saatchi sees AI as the medium that can reflect our fragmented, insane 2025 reality. The Role of the Human Creator Humans may shift from being the writer to being the simulator—designing environments, rules, and emotional logic that AI then plays out.