Maxime Ouellet

AR/VR software engineer at Facebook Reality Labs (hand tracking). Formerly at Microsoft on HoloLens apps. Expat Québécois.

Opinions are my own.

[Maxime Ouellet @maxouellet]

@RobinVanina Creating skeletal meshes procedurally, with code that works in editor play mode and in the compiled game.

Trivial to do in Unity. Hundreds of LOCs in UE needing undocumented APIs, and way tok hard to actually make work without any crashes

[Maxime Ouellet @maxouellet]

@bmalicoat @festivevector A similar thing applies to string comparison. String.Equals has an overload that allows you to specify a StringComparison for compatibility across languages

[Maxime Ouellet @maxouellet]

@BlakeDGross But you're spoiling your future enjoyment of the game when it comes out in the west! Unless you played it in JP already

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Guess what I can finally talk about the Sail Forth RELEASE DATE and it is 🚨🚨 RIGHT NOW!!! 🚨🚨

I've been working on this game for over 6 years, this doesn't even seem real lol. It would mean the world to me if you could share this! Link and thread about the game below 👇

[Maxime Ouellet @maxouellet]

@bmalicoat Yeah. Wife and I also use it for other types of lists, such as "stuff to bring on a trip".

For example, we have a list of things we need to go camping with our family of 5, which we reuse and update across trips. Makes packing much more efficient.

[Maxime Ouellet @maxouellet]

@brunoborges @shanselman The new TMNT game is great, accessible to 5 y/o and maybe 3 y/o (can watch otherwise) .
Paw patrol on a roll is a good intro game for very young kids. Very simple platforming, no deaths. Not co-op: my kids just take turns.

[Maxime Ouellet @maxouellet]

@YZ2009 Le système québécois est assez brisé que ce n'est pas surprenant. Et tout le monde est syndiqué, donc difficile de faire certains changements nécessaires. Je n'envie pas la personne qui essaie de fixer des décennies d'erreurs...

[Maxime Ouellet @maxouellet]

@ForrestTheWoods I subscribe to PS+ mostly to get the free games. 1 year sub at black Friday is cheaper than buying the games, and I play at least 1 a year... Nintendo is way more frustrating, barely any free content and not having the sub makes Mario Maker 2 mostly useless

[Maxime Ouellet @maxouellet]

@BlakeDGross Or maybe RE Village VR? RE7 had a VR mode, I was surprised Village didn't.

[Maxime Ouellet @maxouellet]

@BlakeDGross It's vague, yes. I think it's meant as more of a long term vision statement for the entire industry. We'll see how it evolves, but it's definitely a 10-20+ years vision. Hard to be super concrete for such a timeframe

[Maxime Ouellet @maxouellet]

@PierreNick Bosses can be hard, but at least the game restarts you right next to them!

I find the EMMI chases pretty cheap, and kinds random: it highly depends on where EMMI is when you enter the zone. The game is very good overall, but EMMI chases are not adding to that fun IMO.

[Maxime Ouellet @maxouellet]

@Hy0uzan Controversial opinion: TWEWY is highly overrated. Battle mechanics are clumsy, exploration repetitive, story is okayish. Hope you enjoy though!

[Maxime Ouellet @maxouellet]

@PierreNick People do that in Seattle too. Maybe a PNW thing.

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@felixgv Oh, why did I never think of that?! Buying a few of these for my place right now!

[Maxime Ouellet @maxouellet]

@Hy0uzan Enjoy! Heavensward is great!

[Maxime Ouellet @maxouellet]

@BlakeDGross I thought Stormblood got much better towards the end and in its patches. But in any case it's worth it to get to Shadowbringers!

[Maxime Ouellet @maxouellet]

@BlakeDGross Zero and Ao are both great games . Zero has a really good fan translation now, and Ao has a decent one too with a better one coming very soon. Play them!

[Maxime Ouellet @maxouellet]

@BlakeDGross @SideQuestVR Two finger pinch is a little more complex to track accurately (and differentiate from 1 finger pinch) without a depth sensor. Same with most heuristics really, there's just more noise to the hand pose (for now!). But yeah, a really cool prototype!

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@BlakeDGross @MrZulubo Dependency injection at least lets you write unit tests if you care for that.