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A new era for immersive 3D content. This event marks the moment anyone can begin building connected, persistent 3D experiences on their own servers - not inside a walled garden. luma.com/qiuzwowh #SpatialInternet #metaverse #AugmentedReality #virtualreality #AndroidXR

A new era for immersive 3D content. This event marks the moment anyone can begin building connected, persistent 3D experiences on their own servers - not inside a walled garden. luma.com/qiuzwowh #SpatialInternet #metaverse #AugmentedReality #virtualreality #AndroidXR

A new dynamic seat system is coming to Basis VR @BasisVR! It includes support for any size avatars on any size seats, in any orientation, with the legs and spine at any angle. This uses the same data as in the @open_metaverse OMI_seat standard. PR: github.com/BasisVR/Basis/…

Immersive X 2025 is coming! From Nov 11–13, global innovators will gather to explore how XR reshapes the way we live, learn, and connect. We’re thrilled that our director, Julian Reyes, will join the stage to speak on Preserving the Legacy of Digital Culture through the Virtual Worlds Museum™ Living Archive, in a session hosted in Spatial. This is one of the most important conversations of our time: how we ensure immersive worlds are remembered, celebrated, and accessible for the future. 💫 Shoutout to our team members and partners that will be part of this gathering! Full session details and booking options start today. Learn more about Immersive X: immersive-x.de #VirtualWorldsMuseum #preservingvirtualworlds #ImmersiveX2025 #XR #digitalculture

🚀We're bringing Gaussian Splats to glTF with Khronos Group, Open Geospatial Consortium, Esri & Cesium. This is how open standards win. Let’s build the future of 3D together. 🔗khronos.org/blog/khronos-o… #GaussianSplats #NianticSpatial #glTF #SPZ #3DStandards #GeospatialAI #RealityCapture #OpenSource3D #SpatialComputing #OGC #Khronos #Cesium #Esri

I pitched this idea to Meta for @BeatSaber , but there are other games it could also work for. The Global Frequency The fuzzy abstract vision of the Metaverse, and cinematic visions like Ready Player One, almost always involve crowds of people having a great time. While I remain “the champion of the power of isolation”, I acknowledge that there is real value there, and VR has so far failed to deliver it. For a lot of reasons, it isn’t going to happen inside Horizon Worlds. I propose a concrete, focused experience built on Beat Saber. Playing with friends is great, but the random online servers are tough to match paid music packs on, and the current players tend to converge on Camillia songs, which is offputting for casual players. My suggestion: In addition to the current online play modes, offer a “global frequency” that plays a schedule of songs that an arbitrary number of people can join at once. Thousands. Tens of thousands. Actually, two frequencies: one with just the free tracks, and one with all the paid music packs. The schedule should be viewable in game and on the web, so you could decide to join when your favorite music pack is playing. The nature of Beat Saber offers a unique capability for multiplayer – you can switch difficulty or modifiers between songs at will, and still be playing with the same crowd. The song is forced, but it doesn’t matter how you play. This is key for the Global Frequency, but I would also suggest it as an option for regular multiplayer. In the 60 second intermission between songs, everyone is in “the club”. If you sit out a song, or fail out (and don’t have no-fail enabled), you also drop into the club. Music is always playing in the club, either the current song, or the hook from the song just completed, so everyone has something to move to. Beat Saber avatars are very lightweight, and it should be possible to render hundreds of them, giving a good palette to render the optimally cool crowd scene, which would be the core design question. It would be a fun tech challenge to represent the entire set of thousands of players, but just intelligently picking a hundred good neighbors would still look amazing. Any explicit friends you have that are also playing should be near you, and some effort should be made to allow you to “recognize regulars” that you have played together with before. You should probably be able to walk around and even fly up in the air like Walkabout Mini Golf so you can appreciate the crowd. There are leaderboards up in the sky, with spotlights and other effects highlighting players in the crowd. Someone “wins” the song on each difficulty level, and is celebrated, but everyone has the opportunity to achieve first-completions, personal bests, and full-combo perfection, which result in visible effects for all to see. Every intermission manifests joy for some of the players, which is contagious. The play field should default to the multi player field, with the giant avatar hologram of the global lead player (for your difficulty level), and the other players that were closest to you in score on the last song surrounding you, automatically giving you a competitive field and ephemeral rivalries, but there should be an option to let people play with the single player environments if they want. I would play the hell out of that, and I suspect potentially millions of others would too.

To be honest, when I started @threejs I didn't know the handedness concept yet. But even if I had mostly used 3dsMax up until that point, I knew Y up was the way to go. The Z to "coming out" of the screen felt good too. I'm glad glTF and USD also went with right handed Y up.

we spoke with Brandon Jones about @WebGPU in #WebXR an his call to action is start testing it! Let's get this into #XR ASAP. @mrdoob chose Brandon as our '21 Lifetime honoree, followed by @pjcozzi. @neilt3d, and @gfxprogrammer. @powersimple is @ @ARealityEvent save 20%: POLYS20

At @theworldlabs, we built a new Gaussian splatting web renderer with all the bells and whistles we needed to make splats a first-class citizen of the incredible @threejs ecosystem. Today, we're open sourcing Forge under the MIT license.