This is the first post in a new series that I’m starting called “A Vue into 3D”. Over the last two years I’ve shifted my focus towards front-end development. While I’ve spent time with several frameworks and libraries, Vue JS is the one that clicked for me the most. It allows me to leverage my…
I learned about the concept of weekly reviews first from a friend and later from reading Getting Things Done by David Allen. I don’t exactly practice the entire system described in GTD, but I did take some of the core concepts and make them my own. For me, the two most important of those concepts…
Yesterday I went for an early walk with my new Ray Ban Stories. Downtown Columbus is pretty much empty on Saturday mornings. I walked through the Audubon Park, along the river, around the Statehouse, then to the main library. Here are a handful of montages that I made with footage. I made these with the…
Spline is a 3D graphics tool that can be used in a browser. I decided to make something simple with it to see what its like. Here is my first project, a toon shaded 3D logo for the Extended Collection. While it looks great in the viewport, I could not find a way to export…
Yesterday I decided to revisit Fujii. It’s been about a year since I played this, when I was still using the 1st-gen Quest. This game is simple and joyful. It’s a wonderful place to unwind or destress while growing a digital garden. I love the contrast between darkness and the vibrant colors that make up…
A couple of months ago I came across a WebXR scene based on the novel The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin. I had never heard of the book but I was fascinated by the scene and added it to my reading list. Due to some physical issues with my hands I’m not reading much these…
I just played my first couple of levels of Skybinder and I love it. It’s simple and beautiful and clever. The developer recently released this on App Lap for Oculus Quest and you can get it for around $10 USD at the time of writing. I’m going to resist the temptation to play through all…
I listen to quite a few podcast but my favorite one is the excellent Voices of VR Podcast by Kent Bye. Yesterday Kent reached an impressive milestone: 1000 episodes. He celebrated this achievement with a retrospective on the many many answers that people have had to his question of the ultimate potential of VR. I…
Read on uploadvr.com/jesse-schell-interview/ UploadVR interviews one of my favorite game designers, Jesse Schell. Few people have truly believed in the potential of VR as much a him. If you want to learn more about game design, then I highly recommend his book The Art of Game Design.
I recently played through this VR classic. I’ve had it in my steam library for years but had never finished it. This time around I played it with AirLink on my Quest 2. This is one of those games that is way more fun without a cable coming from the headset. Windlands was recently released…
A method for loading WebXR scenes in WordPress. I know there are a ton of ways of getting WebXR scenes into WordPress sites. Here is my lazy-bones way of doing it using a static folder for the scene code and a shortcode to load an iframe containing the scene. I’m thinking of using this technique…
