Former 🍏 Vision Pro Engineer
Founder @ Volumetrics
I mostly just boost from my primary account here.
| Primary account | @Michael |
I have a growing and seething hatred for short form video. It’s become a choice between isolating myself from major platforms I once loved, or allowing my brain to be scooped out bit by bit.
So far my best solution has been to only use the browser apps, but it’s not a perfect solution.
I can also see it improving if the software is decoupled from the hardware, similar to the PC and android ecosystem.
I’ve gone from being a decade long XR zealot to a nay sayer pretty much overnight.
XR is in its desktop phase which requires an open ecosystem, but each major player is trying to shoehorn it into the walled garden, iPad phase.
It’s dead in the water until the hardware gets 10x lighter, or someone builds a desktop class OS.
First internal hackathon with @lobau & @hanbollar in the office 
I’ve been trying to play through the last of us for over a year now, but every time I open it I chicken out. I’m not even out of Boston yet.
And of course a more complex example! Cloning the VisionOS UX as a point of reference.
Text courtesy of #troika, and built in, courtesy of #rapier!
All of this is built on top of #WebComponents, #rapier, and #threejs, and a (hopefully) easy to use ECS. Along with a few more out-of-the-box features I’ll share later.
Still lots to implement (button, image tag, scrolling, gestures) but v0.1 release is on the horizon!
Still cracking away on MR.js. Here’s a look at the improved WebComponents layout API.
I’ve rewritten it to be responsive so windows/panels can be resized. Nothing innovative, but a clean API I can be proud of.
Any and all feedback is welcomed, and once I have it up on github I’ll share the link! Hopefully I can get some devs that are much smarter than me to contribute!
And here’s a screenshot of the early syntax for responsive UI layouts.
it's all WebComponents & THREE.js and has a built in ECS! So it’s extendable and (hopefully) familiar to devs at all skill levels.
I’m currently integrating AMMO.js for physics based interactions. This will also be accessible to devs.
I’ve got a few TODOs (text, 3D syntax, gestures), but once I’ve got the foundation done, I’ll #opensource the library & create a spatial dev environment to build apps on headset!
michael 
Michael, that’s it