Thomas Ratliff

Technical Artist on assignment @Meta | XR goblin | Developing Party Crashers!

[Thomas Ratliff @devtom7]

It's #PitchYaGame time! 🎉

Party Crashers is an asymmetric VR party game that's all about bringing everyone into the fun

📱Friends can join from any web connected device
🥽One headset, endless multiplayer fun
🪩 Think Mario Party or Jackbox games... but in VR!

[Duck and the Land of Flightless Birds  @DuckFlightless]

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After 13 years of development, Duck is finally taking off!

Be sure to wishlist to get notified when it releases. Retailing on Steam for $7.99 🔗 below

[Robi ᯅ @xrdevrob]

QuestCameraKit just crossed 400 stars 🌟 on GitHub 🐙 with almost 100 forks🍴

This is more than any Oculus or Meta Quest GitHub sample🤯 Devs are clearly interested in camera access and the new use cases that come with it, and we are continuing to make it more easy to build with it!

Check it out here: https://t.co/CmKIwcqigz

[Thomas Ratliff @devtom7]

@hthieblot This sounds awesome. Just moved to sf recently and would love to check it out!

[Thomas Ratliff @devtom7]

@AndyFidel_ 👋🏼 I'm working on a VR party where friends can join on their mobile phones on the web!
https://t.co/aQyPQZ7EFr

[Thomas Ratliff @devtom7]

It's #PitchYaGame time! 🎉

Party Crashers is an asymmetric VR party game that's all about bringing everyone into the fun

📱Friends can join from any web connected device
🥽One headset, endless multiplayer fun
🪩 Think Mario Party or Jackbox games... but in VR!

[Thomas Ratliff @devtom7]

Just moved. Who else building cool VR stuff out here?

[Thomas Ratliff @devtom7]

@Sacb0y Ah for camera access that was released a couple months ago with other samples:
https://t.co/Znha87TvF8

The reflections/lighting aspect of the video is just something I had made with it. I'm hoping it gets added as an official feature at some point

[Thomas Ratliff @devtom7]

Some more camera based reflection and lighting testing. You can see my desk and monitors being reflected in the helmet, definitely adds another layer of realism

#MetaQuest3 #MixedReality #Passthrough #MR #XR #MadeWithUnity

[Thomas Ratliff @devtom7]

@Sacb0y Not publicly. This is just a test I made using Unity

[Thomas Ratliff @devtom7]

One feature I'd love to see with the new camera access is dynamic reflection data generation

Here's a rough attempt... now to figure out how to smooth those seams

#MetaQuest3 #MixedReality #Passthrough #MR #XR #MadeWithUnity

[Sander Sneek @sandersnake]

Sneak peek at our latest experiment: exploring the fusion of Meta’s Environment Depth API with the Passthrough camera feed, aligned and processed in real-time using a custom compute shader pipeline.

#MixedReality #MetaQuest #Unity3D #XR

[Thomas Ratliff @devtom7]

You can now check out the camera shaders I've been experimenting with!

[Robi ᯅ @xrdevrob]

🚨 QuestCameraKit has a new contributor!

Massive thanks to @devtom7 for contributing his shader experiments to the repo.

If you'd like to contribute to the QuestCameraKit, we are still looking to cover other use cases such as stable diffusion, frosted glass shader, image to 3D, and more!

[Thomas Ratliff @devtom7]

Another fun camera shader idea 👾

#MetaQuest3 #MixedReality #Passthrough #MR #XR #MadeWithUnity

[Thomas Ratliff @devtom7]

Messing around with this today and oh man, this opens up so much for shaders in MR. And this is barely even scratching the surface of what's possible...

#MetaQuest3 #MixedReality #Passthrough #MR #XR #MadeWithUnity

[Thomas Ratliff @devtom7]

@xrdevrob Ooh that would be awesome, I'd love to!

[Thomas Ratliff @devtom7]

Messing around with this today and oh man, this opens up so much for shaders in MR. And this is barely even scratching the surface of what's possible...

#MetaQuest3 #MixedReality #Passthrough #MR #XR #MadeWithUnity

[Robi ᯅ @xrdevrob]

We have been working hard on something special for you guys - Access to the Meta Quest cameras👀

👨‍🏫 Learn all about it here: https://t.co/0nUjUwKGbp
⭐️ Check out my samples here: https://t.co/CmKIwcpKr1

Our official Passthrough Camera Samples: https://t.co/yrVt4cNDCo
Documentation: https://t.co/OJw4q6Dhby

[Thomas Ratliff @devtom7]

@xrdevrob Ha, no that shader is what I used for reference to make these!

[Thomas Ratliff @devtom7]

📢Playtesters wanted! 🪩

I'm opening up Party Crashers for a week starting today, and would love to hear your feedback on the current state of the game:
https://t.co/oKLYNZQ2VT

More info in the Party Crashers Discord:
https://t.co/xZbtB0S91U

#madewithunity #unity3d #IndieGameDev #VR #MetaQuest3

[Thomas Ratliff @devtom7]

🚨 Party Crashers Open Beta Alert! 🚨

I'll be opening up Party Crashers through the Meta app store for a full week starting next weekend🗓️2/8-2/15

🎉 Jump in, play, and share your feedback to shape the future of Party Crashers.
👉Join the Discord for more info on how to participate:
https://t.co/xZbtB0S91U

#madewithunity #unity3d #IndieGameDev #VR #MetaQuest3

[Thomas Ratliff @devtom7]

@LucaColonnello Thanks! Will take a look at optimizing for mobile

[Thomas Ratliff @devtom7]

New year, new portfolio site!

https://t.co/FMmGFOUOLL

[Thomas Ratliff @devtom7]

Made a big push on some build size optimizations for Party Crasher's web app that I'm pretty proud of. 3 seconds is all it takes now to load in browser on your phone.

No app to download, no account signup, no bs. Just jump right in with your friends!