John 🚀 VR/AR/XR

Desperately trying to survive the IT warzone, stumbling through VR/AR/MR/XR... don't know what to call it anymore. (We're calling it 'spatial computing' now?)

[Brad Lynch @SadlyItsBradley]

This right here is the magic of XR

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[Nathie 🔜 AWE @NathieVR]

Happy to report that Doom is now playable on Meta's smart glasses.

[Dilmer 👓 @Dilmerv]

📣 This solo developer who currently works at Pixar as a Technical Director is building a VR rhythm game called Sock Puppet Superstar for Quest as an indie project, and over the last week he has been going viral on TikTok!

🤖Features/Tech:
- Using Unity, OpenXR, hand tracking, and a custom voice synthesizer built in FMOD
- Raise and lower your puppet to control the pitch
- Works with hand tracking or controllers
- Customize your sock puppet with colors, fabrics, accessories, and voices

📌 Devs can achieve this using the Meta XR Interaction SDK or Unity XR Toolkit (XR Hands) to add full hand support like what’s shown here.

🚀 Share this to give this solo indie dev more visibility! I’ll continue this bi-weekly with more indie devs who deserve the amplification!

[Nathie 🔜 AWE @NathieVR]

Using Apple Vision Pro to draw and interact in 3D feels like cheating reality.

[UploadVR @UploadVR]

A group of independent researchers built a device that can artificially induce smell using ultrasound, with no consumable cartridges required.

Details here: https://t.co/RqlEdv9xDs

[Brad Lynch @SadlyItsBradley]

For those who missed it, there is a revival of the old DolphinVR emulator which allows you to play GameCube and Wii games in full Immersive like this

Outside of improvements of that comes from being brought to modernity — This one is thankfully being built with OpenXR

[Wu Xu @xuwu]

In 2021, I asked an executive at a major XR company what the real difference was between VRChat, Horizon Worlds, and Rec Room.

I had just started digging into social VR, and to me it felt like a fundamental question. But maybe big companies were just too confident at the time, because his response was: we can try them all.

Five years later, Horizon Worlds and Rec Room are gone, while VRChat keeps putting up new highs.

What still surprises me is that even today, many people in the industry seem unable to tell these three paths apart. It is not just the mainstream media. A surprising number of insiders still seem to think VRChat will end the same way.

[Meta Horizon Developers @MetaHorizonDevs]

We shipped a fully integrated AI workflow for building VR on the web.

Just describe what you want. AI builds it, tests it, and fixes bugs without you touching the code.

Try it yourself here 👉 https://t.co/wMkVEjWT6V

Discover how it works 🧵👇

[Sadao Tokuyama @tokufxug]

Apple Vision Proアプリ「Caradise 2.0」が登場。

名車のドアを開けて内装を探索し、空間オーディオでエンジン音まで体感できる没入型ミュージアム。

AIとの対話で色のカスタマイズも可能。

細部まで作り込まれた3Dビジュアルで、車のデザインを至近距離で見ることができます。

[Dilmer 👓 @Dilmerv]

Chris Pruett 🤯 just posted about our work at Meta to help train astronauts, more details 👇

[Brad Lynch @SadlyItsBradley]

Steam VR Beta released today. Huge datamine along with it

Valve added a ton of icons, driver preparation, and UX backend in preparation for Steam Frame

[Ben Mildenhall @BenMildenhall]

see around corners with Marble 1.1 Plus 👀

[Brad Lynch @SadlyItsBradley]

NBA continues to lead in adopt XR technologies to stream their games to fans

The most recent update to the visionOS app adds the option to watch games in multiple “World View” environments

It recreates every player in realtime, synced to the game video and audio at every angle

[VRChat @VRChat]

We're Here.

A message from our founders: https://t.co/o5Ap4WrBYK

[Nathie 🔜 AWE @NathieVR]

Cloud gaming on Quest powered by Geforce Now is an incredible experience.

[UploadVR @UploadVR]

Meta says the number of active Quest users hit an all-time-high in 2025, and more than 100 store apps made over $1 million.

"The rumors of the death of VR have been greatly exaggerated", the company declared:

https://t.co/joef6loiai

[Brad Lynch @SadlyItsBradley]

This Museas app will literally will let you download museum artifacts and place them in your home!

You can even play audio descriptions of each piece as well

Very great use case for Spatial Computing. And extremely well-polished!

[Nathie 🔜 AWE @NathieVR]

This developer built an assistant for smart glasses that helps you make cocktails.

[𝙂𝘼𝙈𝙀𝙍𝙏𝘼𝙂 𝙑𝙍 @GAMERTAGVR]

This is Emu VR. The magic of VR cannot be explained. You really have to try it yourself…

[aidan @Aidan_Wolf]

just installed the first DreamPark vending machine at Dave & Busters Hollywood turning the entire arcade floor into a game! This was just an idea one month ago and now it’s at a major arcade