Rob Whitehead

CEO @MSquared_io, Co-Founder & CTO @improbableio

[Rob Whitehead @RJFWhite]

Great recap of what we've been up to over the past few years - taking the best of @UnrealEngine and extending it into the mass density backbone of @MSquared_io , capable of 20k+ unique players in one spot.

UE5 dev platform early access coming later this year!

[Rob Whitehead @RJFWhite]

@SoftEngineer Loved this technique in UE5, thanks for porting it into the web ecosystem!

[Herman Narula @HermanNarula]

Seeking a founding AI native designer for new ai first messaging platform in stealth. Great pay, total freedom, tiny super cracked team, infinite funding. Email: [email protected] with something awesome you've designed.

[Rob Whitehead @RJFWhite]

@4JDunk @Escapation Amazing to see others running with the idea ❤️

[Rob Whitehead @RJFWhite]

@gfodor We went from “man the computers in Star Trek are so unrealistic, they wouldn’t understand natural language so well” to “man, Star Trek is so unrealistic, the computers wouldn’t be so stupid” in like 2 years..

[Rob Whitehead @RJFWhite]

@4JDunk @Escapation https://t.co/WNmiEwhP7I

[Rob Whitehead @RJFWhite]

Amazing to see this on @Somnia_Network - this came out of us realizing that although EVM was great it was missing key pieces to actually build fully decentralized applications. Something as simple as listening to transfers of a token and triggering on-chain logic was impossible until now.

[Devs.somi @SomniaDevs]

Somnia Reactivity is now live on Testnet.

Reactivity allows dApps to subscribe to on-chain events and state changes, receiving instant callbacks when updates occur.

This replaces polling, cutting down on RPC calls and reducing latency.

Key aspects:
• Events and state updates arrive from the same block for consistent, low-latency reads.
• Supports both off-chain (WebSocket) and on-chain (EVM invocations) delivery.
• Subscriptions are configurable with filters, delivery options, and coalescing to manage load.

We'll cover the details (implementation, examples, questions) in next week’s Dev Hangout, here on X.

Learn more in the Reactivity docs:
https://t.co/mr3WBR15cO

[Rob Whitehead @RJFWhite]

@rauchg Loved it when even your websummit booth was dark mode

[Rob Whitehead @RJFWhite]

Coding in 2026 be like

[Rob Whitehead @RJFWhite]

@shawmakesmagic “Yo I have a start up idea, please sign my NDA”

[Rob Whitehead @RJFWhite]

https://t.co/zAvl1cDaag really excited to share the news about @yugalabs in-housing the Imporium team and unreal creator platform powering @OthersideMeta and the ODK. @msquared efforts in 2026 will double down on leveraging the open capabilities of the web (especially WebGPU) and advancing our MML interoperability standard to be ready for an AI-first development future

[Rob Whitehead @RJFWhite]

@RoustanXYZ @opdotxyz This is so cool to see

[Rob Whitehead @RJFWhite]

@nicbarkeragain Totally, I find graduate engineers suffer most which I think may be down to classic OOP education being the trivial “student is a human” type examples

[Rob Whitehead @RJFWhite]

@Escapation @MSquared_io Just some test assets for the webgpu renderer!

[Rob Whitehead @RJFWhite]

2025 has been amazing for @MSquared_io and the open metaverse - over 300,000 interoperable MML (and VRM!) avatars now on-chain, and a growing number of worlds that use it. Want to share what’s in the oven right now for 2026 - it's just the start.

[Rob Whitehead @RJFWhite]

Finally, we’re looking at all the game vibe coding projects out there - while ThreeJS is a great renderer, LLMs have to vibe code extremely complex systems on top like physics, pathfinding, rendering, audio, that all interact in subtle ways. Our MML engine framework solves this, along with providing local or remote multiplayer out-of-the-box.

[Rob Whitehead @RJFWhite]

Our open source web world renderer is being overhauled to leverage the visual fidelity and performance of WebGPU. It’s starting with things like lighting and post-processing but this opens up far more possibilities over time.

[Rob Whitehead @RJFWhite]

@Gratefulape @MSquared_io @AKarlssonMusic @HermanNarula @0xPaulThomas Memrs

[Rob Whitehead @RJFWhite]

@prollynuthin @MSquared_io SPOILERS!

[Rob Whitehead @RJFWhite]

@TimSweeneyEpic My bet is this is perhaps a dry run for how UE6 publishing to Fortnite will work in coming years 👀