David Deraedt

Obsessed with VR dev, indie game dev, creative coding and tools, AI. I work for Adobe, but opinions voiced here are my own.

[CoffeeVectors @CoffeeVectors]

Tests using a #metahuman from #UnrealEngine5 with #stablediffusion Multi-ControlNet. Applied diff. amounts of deflickering in #DaVinciResolve. Mainly seeing how it handles 3D camera moves. #aicinema #controlnet #aiia @UnrealEngine #aiphotography #MachineLearning #DeepLearning

[David Deraedt @davidderaedt]

Will give this a try this week-end, alongside hand tracking 2.1

[Russ Maschmeyer @russ_maschmeyer]

To help you prototype your own XR ideas we're open-sourcing a free tool: 👋Handy 🎉

Hands are difficult to animate manually, but Handy makes it as easy as putting on your headset and hitting record. Download: https://t.co/xxDLIr6pQx

[David Deraedt @davidderaedt]

@davrous As-tu essayé de prompter en anglais plutôt qu’en français ? Bien que chat GPT se soit beaucoup amélioré, je doute qu’il soit aussi precis qu’en anglais vu son dataset.

[David Deraedt @davidderaedt]

@johanvinet Impressive. And well deserved, as the video is really good, short and original, and highlights a unique selling point of the game.

[David Deraedt @davidderaedt]

Tip to Unity / Quest 2 devs : if you’ve been dealing with shadows disappearing in URP, I’ve tracked and filed a bug (confirmed by Unity). A workaround is to remove (not just disable) SSAO from your render asset.

[David Deraedt @davidderaedt]

@UBadler @krajzeg Thanks !🥳

[David Deraedt @davidderaedt]

@benz145 While software is definitely lacking and hurts retention, as others pointed out, comfort is still a major blocker to adoption. Both should be improved before computational performance.

[David Deraedt @davidderaedt]

For context in my experience the Quest2 typically suffers as soon as you approach 1M tris (on screen, not in the scene) before you even run anything else. I personally typically target 500k as a default.

[David Deraedt @davidderaedt]

Great UE5 demo. This isn’t 250M tris running on the Quest, but an originally 250M tris scene automatically lowered to a mobile compatible poly count, which is already pretty awesome.

[Alex Coulombe @iBrews]

here's what happened when I took a 250+ million triangle scene with Nanite in Unreal Engine 5.1 and built it to Quest without changing anything.

[David Deraedt @davidderaedt]

@SkarredGhost Best of luck and I’d love to read that post mortem!

[David Deraedt @davidderaedt]

I’m now using #ChatGPT on a daily basis (for coding). I never use the generated code directly - I use it to learn about new APIs and techniques I’m not familiar with. I think this habit is here to stay.

[David Deraedt @davidderaedt]

@SkarredGhost @Forbes We’ve had functionally similar tech for years and it‘s not proven very useful. It brings none of the benefits of VR (full stereoscopic immersion) or AR (augmenting the whole world around you, not just a video feed on a tiny screen)

[David Deraedt @davidderaedt]

Game dev legend Masahiro Sakurai marvelling at The Last of Us remaster accessibility menu for 10 minutes straight👌 https://t.co/i7JSTdYepT

[George Jijiashvili @GioKinto]

Christmas Meta Quest app download numbers are in! Here are some highlights in relative terms:
⬇️26% decrease on 25 Dec '22 vs '21
⬇️26% decrease in 1-26 Dec '22 period vs '21
⬆️31% INCREASE in 1 Jan-26 Dec '22 period vs '21 (thanks to more downloads throughout the year!) 😯
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[David Deraedt @davidderaedt]

100% agreed - many assumptions inherited from screen-based apps simply don’t apply in VR/AR.

[rygo6 @_rygo6]

This is a great VRC tech demo, but it's also showing something many of those outside of VR miss, that being, Interactivity > Visual Fidelity. That, yes, a single interactive cartoony piece of cloth will run miles in engagement around infinite, static, photorealism...

[David Deraedt @davidderaedt]

@ALEXEIMARTOV Not a game, but my Passthrough app to let you draw / paint IRL is available on AppLab https://t.co/uFXDNPWyLS

[David Deraedt @davidderaedt]

To be clear this isn't a VR drawing app - like the excellent @VermillionVR - my app lets you draw / paint in real life by placing a PNG in AR using the #Quest2 Passthrough

[David Deraedt @davidderaedt]

After nearly a year of pre-release my Quest2 XR app to transfer digital art to real life drawing / painting is available on AppLab ! Yay !
https://t.co/uFXDNPW0Wk

[David Deraedt @davidderaedt]

Still one of the best hand tracking UX I've seen so far

[Cubism @CubismVR]

A puzzle a day keeps the doctor away 🍎

#MetaQuest #AR #HandTracking #madewithunity