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Created another mini game with mixed reality for my upcoming video! It took some work but I am enjoying these type of videos a lot. This time I will release a  #WebXR  version and I hope you like it!

Releasing later this week! 

I have been judging some of the entries submitted for the Meta Presence Platform, and honestly, wow! I just want to say, amazing job everyone! I didn’t get a chance to review every submission, but I did review 22 of them.

I was particularly impressed with the use of the real world in these submissions. Some did it in such a seamless way that it felt like just a part of reality.

There were some amazing uses of hand tracking; it felt like pure magic.

Great job and I can’t wait to hear about the winners this coming May 31st 🥳! 

This is a HUGE deal 📣!!!

Meta is rolling out networking building blocks with version (v65), and it’s as easy as just a drag and drop them into your Unity object hierarchy 🤯.

I saw this in action during a demo I had few weeks ago, and it allows you to decide between Unity Netcode for Game Objects or Photon. They also provide support to test networking capabilities right from the Meta XR Simulator which makes it super easy to test with.

📌 There are 2 critical use cases solved by using these components:

👉 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: which allows you to add multiplayer features where players join remotely.

👉 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: which allows players joining within the same space.

💡Additional details about the workflow here:  https://developer.oculus.com/documentation/unity/bb-multiplayer-blocks 

 #meta   #unity 

Slow but consistent progress 8,000,000 views achievement unlocked 🥳 

Hello everyone! 👋👓 

Today, I am excited to announce a new YouTube video series featuring Meta's Presence Platform. In this series, we will prototype small tabletop games and productivity apps with mixed reality. 

📌 Full video:  https://youtu.be/QHMtVEX9O0Y 

In the first 🎬 video, we’ll cover:

- How to set up a Unity project with Meta XR components using the project setup tool.

- Using core building blocks such as the camera rig building block, passthrough building block, controller tracking, hand tracking, visualizers, room mesh, and interactions.

- How to build a mixed reality tabletop bowling game from the ground up.

- Step-by-step instructions on how to set up and use the Meta XR Simulator with data forwarding features, allowing you to use physical controllers with the simulator.

- How to use synthetic environments with Meta XR Simulator for testing passthrough via sim.

💻 Unity project and video resources shown today are NOW Available on GitHub:

👉 Resources ONLY: 
 https://github.com/dilmerv/MetaXRTableTopGames_Resources  

👉 Full Unity Project: 
 https://github.com/dilmerv/MetaXRTableTopGames 

Let me know if you have any questions after watching this video, thanks for your time everyone. 

Would you be interested in learning how to migrate a game or productivity app created specifically for Meta Quest to Vision Pro? If so, what area specifically would you say is the most challenging? What can I do to help you there?

Comments appreciated as well 👇

 #visionpro   #unity 

📣 Changing things up a bit…

Meta Presence platform video releasing tomorrow May 18th at 8:00 AM MST 🚀 

Three weeks of fun prototyping with Meta Building Blocks summarized in one screenshot.

A new video featuring my latest work is releasing today 🥳 

This week I spent a lot of time going back and forth between Meta XR Simulator, Meta Link, and simply using play mode without the first 2 options. One thing I realized is how much time it takes to do this repeatedly and 𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 just took a big chunk of that time.

Well, I recommend using 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 which will cut that time significantly, specially if you are looking for very fast dev iteration which this enables when going into play mode.

To enable it go to 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁 > 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 > 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀

📌 Good info about it:  https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ConfigurableEnterPlayMode.html 

 #unitytips   #unity 

Take a look at Unity XRI 3.0.2-3.0.3 which are now available and 3.0.2 includes a lot of changes and fixes as well as a new VisionOS working demo.

👓 VisionOS XRI release notes: 

- Added Spatial Keyboard sample demo scene, scripts, and prefabs.
- Added visionOS sample, including a Volume demo scene, and a simple XR Origin Rig specifically configured for Mixed Reality, bounded and unbounded on visionOS.

📌 More info at:  https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.xr.interaction.toolkit@3.0/changelog/CHANGELOG.html#added 

 #visionos   #unity