@hetisniels I’m the Eng Manager for the Quest Browser team at Meta. You can email me with details/repro steps at davehill@meta.com.

I've always kept to #PCVR, but I actually tried #WebXR recently, and while the stuff I played itself wasn't revolutionary, the convenience is insanely high. Cross platform flash games but for #VR that are just 3 clicks away after putting on my HMD.
Awesome!

Hit testing will use as much information from the device's environment as possible.
- if you ran room setup, it will hit walls, furniture, floor, etc
- Otherwise, it will hit the floor of the guardian area
- If there is no guardian, it will hit the floor area 10m around the origin.
There's always a floor 🙂

#Quest browser 25.3 is out to 100% with support for #Webxr hit testing. Try it on in #google's modelviewer site: https://modelviewer.dev/examples/augmentedreality/index.html
#xp

When we live through difficult times it can be easy to succumb to despair, to see nothing but darkness on the horizon. But one day, in happier times, songs will be sung of those who persevered. Strive to be sung about as one who brought hope, and carried light over that horizon.

Ah, this is wild and I didn't see that one coming. Screenshots from @AFrameVR are png and on the Quest Pro the background is transparent. So... I'm pointing at an in-#XR screenshot (no camera feed) overlaid on passthrough.

PS: moving tiles around with passthrough is fun too. cc @webxr

@Flux if we’re lucky, maybe it also grants us the wisdom to accept that it can be okay to be an amateur provided we take satisfaction in the learning and the doing. Less so if you’re after a career change, but certainly can be true for hobbies.

Plenty of new ideas over the weekend. Can't wait to try and see if a sandcastle🏰🏖️🧰🧠🫶 can be built, with code, in #XR using another set of asset tiles!

In fact loading a set of tiles via a URL then sharing the result back, as a new URL, is itself an exciting prospect.😅

#WebXR continuation of https://mastodon.pirateparty.be/@utopiah/109682335533196369

I’m going to tell you the story of the man who solved a crime.

Not, like, a cop who put together the clues and got his man, but a person who took a crime as old as civilization and fixed the problem where it got you in trouble.

The man: Artur Virgílio Alves Reis.

The place: 1920s Portugal.

The crime: Counterfeiting.

The problem he fixed: That the money is counterfeit.

(This is going to be a long 🧵 . Just trust me.)

Discoverability tip: if you want your posts to be eligible to trend and show up in Explore, make sure you've enabled "Suggest account to others" in Preferences under Account.

So if you want to get the word out about your projects, you'll probably want that enabled :blobcateyes:

Easiest way to access this option if you can't find it, is to log into the web app and click [Edit profile] on your own profile. It may not be available in other clients. (thanks @glassbottommeg )

@seanmcbeth IIRC, @jamesckane was looking to hire some WebXR folks.

Hi folks! I'm looking for a new job.

I'm a technical project manager and TypeScript/C# hacker with too much experience to list in a 500 char toot. Highlights include GIS apps, enterprise web apps, and VR apps with WebXR. I've even done a little hardware prototyping (haptic gloves, an RFID reader for cattle, a couple of small museum installations).

I come to every job with a can-do spirit, respect for business value, and deep concern for the people who use my software.

https://seanmcbeth.com

As much as you aspire to glory for yourself, seek to inspire others to achieve their own. Go out and make deeds worthy of song, aid your comrades in theirs, and we shall all sing in celebration, together.

Me: We've sped up the FOFA process, so now we can fuck around and find out at *the same time*.

@annaleen: It's Moore's Law for fucking around and finding out. Every 18 months the FOFA cycle doubles in speed.

This photo gives you an idea just how big a Bald Eagle's talons really are!

#BaldEagle

photo credit Peter Sharpe

Thanks to @Bette for supplying the photo credit info

I finally got an end-to-end demo using WebXR Compositor Layers in Three.js, replacing the "TV screen" in my boxing app to use a quad layer.

The quality improvement when using the quad layer is dramatic. As a bonus, I only need to re-render the layer when something updates on the tv screen (roughly once a second vs. every frame).

You can compare with/without here (on Quest 2/Pro):

With Quad Layer:
https://davehill00.github.io/box/dist/index-beta.html

Without Quad Layer:
https://davehill00.github.io/box/dist/index.html

#webxr #threejs

When the history of crypto is written, this should be the cover image on the book.

Trajectory of Silicon Valley VC investment culture.

2000s: Useful products, good businesses & investors get rich (Facebook, Salesforce, Amazon, etc)

2010s: Useful products & investors get rich (Uber, Casper, Blue Apron, etc)

2020s: Investors get rich (crypto)

Whether the new year fills you with hope or with dread; whether this past year has been full of triumphs or defeats, know this: A true warrior does not just let the future happen, but strives to fill it with hope, with triumph, with glory. Let us stand together and fight for it.

#Blender lightmaps → #threejs from a fresh model to a baked scene in the #web in < 1 minute 😊

#b3d #needle #webgl #webxr #rendering #webdev #webdevelopment