Jonathan Hale

You were all... correct! #WebGL bistro.wonderlandengine.com

Will this run on the web? ~3M vertices with baked GI. Comment yes/no below. @WebXREngine #WebGL #GameDevJS #WebGameDev

New blog post: A Decade of Slug This talks about the evolution of the Slug font rendering algorithm, and it includes an exciting announcement: The patent has been dedicated to the public domain. terathon.com/blog/decade-sl…

Fix our Books. Make no mistakes. x.com/squareys/statu…

This is absolutely incredible! Runtime texture encoding on WebGL 🎉 Insanely cool work by Ignacio here. Check it out!

We’ve shipped the features behind our recent Wonderland Engine × @ZapparApp webinar. Wonderland Engine 1.5.3 adds Zappar-based WebAR templates as the default tracking tools (image, face, world), plus we’ve added the full webinar recording and short clips for each tracking mode to the release notes. Details and links: wonderlandengine.com/news/release-1…

@willeastcott "open binaries" 😁

Closed source is the new open source. 🙃

@SebAaltonen @alightinastorm 💯

@alightinastorm With WASM based data structure + renderer + physics, you can still write game play code as Javascript just like you do with three.js. And integrate all Javascript libraries. WASM module gives an afficient Javascript interface to the scene data structure.

ThreeJS > Launches instantly > 200 KB > No overhead > Runs in the browser > WYSIWYG > Has no accounts > Fully free What's the point of any other engine?

Wonderland Engine 1.5.3 is now available! 🎉 New AR templates, UX improvements, and bug fixes. #webgl #wasm #webxr #webgpu #webgamedev #gamedevjs #gamedev Find the full changelog here: wonderlandengine.com/news/release-1…

133M polygons running in the browser on WebGL2, coming in 1.6.0. @Gamedevjs @GamedevJSWeekly @webgamedevs #webgl #wasm

In order to start diversifying your timeline from AI-only content, here is a video of the next @WebXREngine version. Both showcase meshlets with hierarchical culling, roughly 32*32*130K tris, nicely frustum / LOD culled. Running on #webgl via Wonderland Engine

Wonderbricks splits roles: • Wonderland Engine → C++/Wasm web engine, perf + tooling • @Novelab → interaction design & UX for VR + WebMR Open on HeyVR.io in VR, or tap AR to switch into mixed reality and anchor blocks in your real space. We documented the main tech/UX calls: Interview → youtube.com/watch?v=SlwAee… · Code → github.com/WonderlandEngi…

WonderBricks: a complex WebXR/WebMR demo built with Wonderland Engine and @Novelab. Runs fully client‑side in the browser. On HeyVR.io, hit AR to place blocks in your room via the camera feed. Full project is open‑source: github.com/WonderlandEngi… #WebXR #OpenSource #WebGL

Excited to finally share what we’ve been building with the @ZapparApp team: high‑performance WebAR powered by the new Wonderland Engine–Zappar integration. 🗓️ 26 Feb, 4:00 PM UTC 🔗 Register: zap.works/webinars/build… Very practical session for devs currently fighting performance issues in #Threejs and similar setups. #WebAR #WebXR #3DWeb

Wonderland Engine 1.5.2 is now available! 🎉 Audio encoding, quality-of-life changes and stability improvements. #webgl #wasm #webxr #webgpu #webgamedev #gamedevjs #gamedev Find the full changelog here: wonderlandengine.com/news/release-1…

@SoftEngineer @Sketchfab @matousekfoto Very nicely done! In the implementation I did for @WebXREngine, I used Basis Universal (usually ASTC4x4) for faster uploads to the GPU, and lower CPU memory footprint (compared to RAW images). What does your tile feedback pass look like?

Virtual Textures in the Browser. This is a WebGL 2.0 implementation I did in 2023. The car model is from @Sketchfab by @matousekfoto. It's a worst-case for virtual textures because the texture is generated from photogrametry software and has pathologically bad UV layout. The texture is 16,384 x 16,384 pixels, which is 180 Mb of PNG data. Loading this in Blender would crash Blender for me back then. The GPU memory requirement for this texture is 1 Gb. The VT displays the model after loading just 34 Kb (one tile). The other tiles are fetched in via a smart priority queue in the background as you move camera around the scene. The physical page texture is 2k, which is 16 times smaller than the source. The solution supports multiple separate virtual textures, and has GLTF integration. Texture filtering as well as anisotropy are fully supported as well. You can try the demo yourself here: company-named.com/dev/prototypes… Here's a writeup I did while working on this: discourse.threejs.org/t/virtual-text… The video recorded on a very crummy internet connection and I intentionally reload the page in the middle. The delay comes from the geometry download, actual texture part is near-instant.

My favorite from this one is the new XR interaction template. Go check it out!

The automotive industry has been gaslit into $MM USD server costs/year. 💸 Until yesterday, the standard for high-end configurators was pixel streaming: rendering on GPUs in the cloud for $0.10-$0.25 USD / min / user. Great for the cloud providers, not so great for the OEMs! And still, the business case for 3D web configurators is strong enough, that we have many of those configurators out there. Today configurators became much much more accessible for vehicle manufacturers. Morgan Motor Company and Apache​ reconceived the standard with their Wonderland Engine based configurator that renders directly on the client device, providing a much better, lag-free user experience at negligible server cost. #webgl #webgpu #web3d

Wonderland Engine 1.5.0 is now available! 🎉 WebGPU support with full WebGL2 feature parity, probe volume scenarios, runtime baking, audio resources, and particle effect JS API. #webgl #wasm #webxr #webgpu #webgamedev #gamedevjs #gamedev Find the full changelog here: wonderlandengine.com/news/release-1…