Aurelio Puerta Martín

I'VE BEEN SELECTED TO HOGWARTS! Or at least that's how I felt when experiencing this famous scene in #MixedReality😆

@gracia_vr @tipatat Super cool! Relighting needs to be a feature on the Unity SDK please 🙈

Early prototype for Gaussian Splats relighting. It's a baseline implementation that lets you harmonize lighting between the 3D scene and Gaussian Splat-based objects. More sophisticated relighting techniques, including self-shadowing and multiple light sources, are still a work in progress.

@Dilmerv That is crazy cool! I need to try the MCP!

Last year I built a full Unity VR/MR demo for our talk and the Meta booth, and it took me around 3–4 weeks to complete. This year, with only a week left before GDC, I was definitely feeling the pressure. Surprisingly, I ended up building a full VR game with AI in just one day. The tech stack 👇

@hybridherbst @marcel_wiessler But is the tracking free to use now and integrate into any experience?

This is great, but somewhat misleading. The tracking is NOT open source, nor will it be. (this was announced earlier, and is left out from this post for some reason – it is on the website with an asterisk)

@xuwu I really really hope they don't cut back on the FOV, it is one of the core pillars of immersion...

I’ve always hoped Meta Phoenix would rethink a few things. First, slim/light and comfortable aren’t the same. Weight and comfort aren’t linear, there’s a threshold. A “100g glasses-like” design that puts most of the load on the nose pads may look great, but it’s not necessarily more comfortable than a 200g headset. Second, we shouldn’t sacrifice the core experience just to chase a glasses form factor. Cutting FOV is way too expensive. Once the FOV shrinks, a lot of existing VR/MR content and ecosystems simply stop working, and you end up turning what could be a new immersive medium into a portable big screen. That’s not evolution, it’s regression. This is the part I most hope Meta will change. Just because it looks good doesn’t mean it feels good on your face, and that still doesn’t guarantee it’s actually useful. For headsets, optimizing for comfort is enough. There’s no need to chase ultra-thin, ultra-light at all costs. It’s just not worth the tradeoff.

Noviembre: — OpenAI saca GPT-5.1-Codex-Max — Anthropic publica Opus 4.5 Enero: — Spotify: «nuestros mejores desarrolladores ya no escriben código» — Anthropic: «La IA romperá el coste de modernizar Cobol» y las acciones de IBM se desploman Febrero: — Taalas demuestra ~17 000 tokens/segundo — El Gobierno desclasifica los papeles de 23-F y en 48 horas hay media docena de aplicaciones funcionales «vibecodeadas». — Block (Dorsey) despide al 40 % de su plantilla (4000 personas) por la emergencia de la IA El mundo al revés: ahora mismo hay más futuro y estabilidad profesional en ser un autónomo adaptativo libre ejerciente que en un contrato laboral con sueldo fijo en una TIC potente. Mi profesión, tal como la conocía y la he ejercido más de 20 años, ha cambiado para siempre. Es todo tan efervescente, que adaptarse a los cambios en la profesión tecnológica es ya un trabajo en sí mismo. Las horas no dan para trabajar y formarse a la vez. El maremoto está engullendo ahora a los ingenieros de software. Pero nadie está a salvo: la siguiente ola sísmica llegará en semanas y transformará tu trabajo y el de todos. No hay nada que temer, pero es necesario adaptarse. Ayer compré un monitor panorámico. Mi portátil de 14 " ya no es práctico para la nueva programación agéntica. Para los que vivimos cómodos en la incertidumbre, arranca una época áurea. Resistirse es absurdo: ¡abracemos los cambios y el mundo que viene! ❤️

@TheEggman64 That is not true at all, for example the Xreal One have a dedicated chip that basically just adds 3DOF, but it is basically an external screen. Same could be done for Switch

@aurepuerta_dev It would have to do all its own processing then, making it much more expensive. Nintendo always go for the cheaper more accessible option.

Have a crazy prediction that Nintendo will release a VR mod for Switch 2. Basically a unit with goggles, cameras and head-strap that the Switch 2 slots into. Nintendo would just make a bunch of experimental mini games and Pokemon AR stuff, and devs could port their Quest 3 games.

@unitycoder_com Amazing, didn't know they had finally added 3D Gen models. I guess it should be possible to trigger these generations at runtime?

Testing Unity AI Beta 3D Generators (image to 3D)

Check out this tutorial if you want to do it yourself! youtu.be/rGiCJMeDoDw?si…

As the full FOV feed isn't available I paired it with some passthrough styling and faded edges and it looks quite trippy! Here is the same approach but as if we were looking though a #GameBoy camera

Now that the #VirtualBoy is back, what if use it as a real life filter? I finally had some time to play with Quest #PCA and implemented this shader in stereo!

@javilopen Brutal, menuda pinta!!!!!!

⚡ WE ARE SO BACK 🔥 Magnific Upscaler For Video 🔥 (BETA TESTING) Seedance at 720 res wasn't cool. You know what's cool? Seedance at 4k res! FINALLY. The most anticipated Magnific feature of all times 🧵👇

Smartglasses + Airpods with cameras means almost 360 view of your environment for AI? 😱

This is quite exciting, the era of true smartglasses is almost here!

@ZiyangXie_ @theworldlabs That is crazy! Are you going to make to tool available?

I build a pipeline that can turn any monocular video into a fully immersive 4DGS scene that you can explore it in realtime. Stop watching videos. Start playing with them! @theworldlabs #4DGS

This is so crazy! Still needs some polish but next model is going to be indistinguishable from a real movie

@DSkaale Does this run on top of the aras-p UnityGaussianSplatting repo? Could this be run on a Meta Quest 3 for example? Maybe baking the lighting?

After more than 2 years of work! and a lot of request! IT IS FINALE HERE! — Unity Re-light Splats is here for Splat Box Editor. 🔗 Get it NOW: #gaussian-relighting" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">simulacrum.dk/Shop#gaussian-… You can now change light attenuation on 3D Gaussian Splats in Real Time, directly in Unity. Gaussian Splatting — a full aprox. re-lighting attenuation plugin built from the ground up on my research paper A Novel Approach to Dynamic Lighting in Billboard-Based Volumetric Rendering. #articles" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">simulacrum.dk/#articles 🔦 Real-time dynamic lighting — no surface normals 💡 Directional, point, spot & planar lights 🎮 90+ FPS ✨ Shadow attenuation & SSAO 📦 Works ONLY with Splat Box Editor as a add-on #unity3d #gamedev #GaussianSplatting #AI #worldLabs #3DGS #indiegames #GenerativeAI #madewithunity @80Level @theworldlabs

Complete nonsense

Okey, this video model finally feels like that it has passed the Uncanny Valley of GenAI videos, it is really really good! 🤩

@XREAL_Global When is this releasing in Europe? Pleeeeeeease 🫣

Switch games just hit different when they’re on a giant screen 😎 Pair the XREAL Neo with XREAL AR glasses to turn your favorite Nintendo worlds into a massive floating display you can take anywhere. With that kind of setup, what’s the first game you’re starting? #XREAL #Nintendo #PortableGaming