Andrew Eiche

If you're building for VR, build something so good that people buy a headset purely to use your thing.

VR’s narrative is being set by people who don’t build in VR, don’t spend time in VR, and don’t see the small teams quietly winning. VR’s best news happens in huge Discord servers, not on social or news articles. Jump into the culture for the good news.

@CitizenZ_1000 social != metaverse

@buddingmonkey You are saying VR doesn't need the Metaverse. So, it doesn't need social experiences. What does VR need, my friend? I can't imagine it is that great at the moment with the capability of my own brain.

The “metaverse” being handcuffed with VR has done at least a decade of damage. Thank VR Jesus for Gen Alpha 🙏

@CitizenZ_1000 VR is here and great. It doesn’t need “the metaverse” to succeed

@buddingmonkey Yikes! That is genuinely rough. Maybe VR is 20 or 30 years away.

@CitizenZ_1000 Yes. This weeks news is proof. I worked on Metaverses for the Army and yes they are hopeful it works someday but also faking it.

@buddingmonkey So the army, anduril, and meta are faking it?

@CitizenZ_1000 Pure uncut delusion. I wish I had better news for you, but I’ve been doing this for 20 years. It ain’t gonna happen. At least not in the way you picture it.

@buddingmonkey What about taking on the entire muslim world population (1billion), Russia, China, generally >1/2 the world? Rumor of 60$ billion valuation from the army. techcrunch.com/2026/03/14/us-…

@CitizenZ_1000 As Meta, rec room, Roblox, second life, VR chat, PlayStation home, dreams, core, Fortnite, and countless others have shown this tech is expensive to build. Without mass market adoption or government investment it’s not worth the effort. Your use case is not compelling enough

@buddingmonkey I don't see why a quest 3 or AVP cant display, albiet from more powerful hardware, a scene that augments a real place with simple, Immersive scene relighting and material handling. We can do lights and materials, now augment real scenes, and make better hardware.

@CitizenZ_1000 That is science fiction like the warp drive or teleporter. The technology required to attract the masses to a “human experience replacement” might as well be magic.

@buddingmonkey I see the (social?) gaming side of the internet as your definition of the metaverse. I was supposed to be able to go places in real life with VR hmd augmenting the world to scenerios me and my firends want to take part in by now. Or at home! We got shit on by meta/apple.. reality

@CitizenZ_1000 We are already a digital society. The Metaverse is the second self that exists only online. It’s not the corporal representation that matters.

@buddingmonkey huh, imo metaverse means nothing, but if its not brought to us through VR, how do we experience it lmaoo

@technxgga If you’re looking for support for some Oasis like dystopia you’re in the wrong place. If you want to argue we’re already a digital society and there will be no “metaverse” I can get behind that.

@buddingmonkey Calling horizon worlds the metaverse has done a decade of damage lol. They are making chatrooms mobile only, thats it.

@evnphillips @nypost I don’t care about your take on screen time I have beef with you making up facts about Ms Rachel. Talk to grok if you want someone to blow smoke up your ass.

@buddingmonkey @nypost I don’t think I implied that. Seems like you have beef with my take on screentime for kids. You do you man.

YouTube star Ms. Rachel shows off her 1-year-old daughter's advanced vocabulary - now other parents are upset: 'I feel like I failed' trib.al/jXIDTcP

@evnphillips @nypost If you don’t know anything about the show or her why did you imply you did? Saying nothing is free.

@buddingmonkey @nypost Maybe, but this ‘confession’ sort of implies she doesn’t do it often. She tried for two hours to not give her kid a screen. Not necessarily trying to drag her, I don’t know anything about the show or her. I do think screen use for kids under two is bad for them.

@evnphillips @nypost She absolutely does and is open about it instagram.com/reel/DOMCRXFji…

@nypost The fucked up part is that personal screen use (phones, tablets - both in children and their parents) is becoming by more and more correlated to speech and other developmental delays. Ms. Rachel probably doesn’t let her kid watch Ms. Rachel videos.

@bygregorr @vasuman Gorilla Tag begs to differ

@vasuman The problem wasn't middle management, it was that "young people" were the wrong target. Gen Z already had their metaverse it's called Roblox. What real legs did it have that Roblox didn't already own?

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.

@shadesofsilver The talks were full again, which had been declining for years. I heard about some investment seeking, but based on my networks most studios that didn’t have investment for all of 2026 shut down or laid folks off in Jan.

@buddingmonkey Really tough to compare. It was good to streamline the passes, but it seems like the show has become less about finding a job or investment. Looking on LinkedIn, I can't really tell what the benefit was. Lots of just "Another GDC in the books!" mixed w/ doom & gloom.

Seen much speculation but I'd like to point something else out: This was the first time in years there were no crypto-related talks. Maybe there always were 20k gamedev attendees, but also 10k techbros looking for get-rich-quick ideas and investments.

honey I’m this old

@morningstar2651 @chhopsky Interesting! That definitely seems like a major contributor. Fewer passes at a higher price.

@buddingmonkey @chhopsky They don't offer the expo pass anymore. Most people would attend with expo passes and not go to the talks. Now the cheapest pass gets you into all of the talks.

this number is very low btw. last few years all around 30k