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Peter Howell
@peterhowell
Developer Strategy - AR/VR Apps
@meta
. 2x Girl Dad. Developer of Lucifer’s Mask.
Redondo Beach, CAocul.us/2JLjbJ1Joined November 2008
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Peter Howell
@peterhowell
Love seeing this because it means a whole lot of folks are experiencing VR for the first time with their families. Some of my fondest holiday memories are trying a new platform for the first time and seeing my family’s reactions: NES, 486 w/ CD-ROM and Rift.
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Peter Howell
@peterhowell
.
@Dilmerv
is a great follow for folks new to XR or who want to know about the latest and greatest SDKs/frameworks like
@MetaQuestVR
Interaction SDK.
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Dilmer Valecillos
@Dilmerv
I am adding resources to blog.learnxr.io and will make sure to keep it up to date with everything that I am prototyping. 💡if that sounds interesting I've added a newsletter section where you will get notified of new content weekly. Thanks everyone #AR #VR
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Great
@MetaQuestVR
2022 dev resource round up. Some of my favs: ⚡️Application SpaceWarp for big perf wins 👋 Interaction SDK for rapid prototyping with Hand Tracking 👥 Multiplayer Features like Destinations, Group Presence & Invites More to come in 2023!
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Oculus Developers
@Oculus_Dev
Our 2022 Developer Resource Roundup has you covered with the guides, demos, and best practices you need to level up development in 2023 ➡️ developer.oculus.com/blog/2022-deve
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Peter Howell
@peterhowell
Extra perf for Christmas! ☃️🎁🎄
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Chris Pruett
@c_pruett
Happy to finally share that we've managed to up-clock the Quest 2 GPU for improved performance and graphics, with no changes necessary to existing software. Great work by our engineering teams to unlock more power for the Quest 2 chipset. developer.oculus.com/blog/boost-app
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Peter Howell
@peterhowell
Our
@MetaQuestVR
Interaction SDK (ISDK) is a must for hand tracking prototyping. Even if you’re already familiar with hand tracking, both the ISDK Samples & First Hands apps & Unity projects have novel interactions that you can crib from.
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Oculus Developers
@Oculus_Dev
Our new blog post walks you through the flexible Interaction SDK components, best practices for integration, and how you can try these interactions out for yourself with downloadable demos on App Lab and Github ➡️ developer.oculus.com/blog/interacti
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Peter Howell
@peterhowell
The clarity of Compositor Layers in particular can almost feel like using prescription glasses for the first time. 😎 If you want to understand what's happening under the hood,
@IRADICATOR
's '21 Connect talk breaks down the 2D Display Pipeline further.
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Peter Howell
@peterhowell
One of the lowest lift/high impact features not enough
@MetaQuestVR
devs leverage are Compositor Layers and Super Sampling to sharpen UI & text. Our 2D Panels App demystifies rendering techniques at your disposal to mitigate aliasing, blur & flickering.
oculus.com
2D Panels on Oculus Quest
2D Panels Demo is an experimental sandbox demonstrating high quality rendering methods for 2D panels for VR developers and designers. 2D elements like buttons, icons and text are almost universally...
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Peter Howell
@peterhowell
Some awesome building blocks in here for MR. Particularly, Passthrough Room and Virtual Frame. github.com/oculus-samples
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Oculus Developers
@Oculus_Dev
Last year we created a showcase demo called The World Beyond to show you how Presence Platform’s suite of AI and machine learning capabilities can boost immersion and presence in VR. Now we’ve added four mini-sample scenes to make it easier for you to modify and reference code 🧵
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Peter Howell
@peterhowell
Sending love and support to my fellow co-workers affected by the Meta layoff today. I’ve been there before and it sucks. Feeling extra fortunate to carry on the XR torch.
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@peterhowell
Team work make the dream work. #QuestPro
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andrés ornelas
@andres
since last year, we at the Metaverse Applications team have been working with an amazing group of developers to flex the Quest Pro's technology, enable new Mixed Reality use cases via Presence Platform, and bring you an inspired set of launch apps...🧵 twitter.com/RealityLabs/st
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Peter Howell
@peterhowell
Shout out to
@ArkioHQ
,
@ShapesXR
,
@nanome_inc
,
@GravitySketch
&
@ImmersedVR
for awesome Quest Pro showings today. Hardware isn't worth much without developers betting on you and pushing the envelope.
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James Senior
@jsenior
Wow what a day at @meta Connect! So very proud to have contributed to some of the things we unveiled today! The progress on VR and Apps for Work, Creativity, Fitness and more, is tremendous and that was on full display today. To all our developers and partners, thank you! #VR
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Peter Howell
@peterhowell
Excited to share this with the world today. Ergo and optics are incredible.
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andrés ornelas
@andres
behold! the first in our new line of high-end VR devices: Meta Quest Pro! featuring... 😎 premium ergonomics 🤩 Mixed Reality w/ color passthrough 🎮 self-tracked controllers w/ advanced haptics 🥞 next-generation optics 😉 natural facial expressions ⚙️ high-performance hardware
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product shot of Meta Quest Pro and Meta Quest Touch Pro Controllers
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Peter Howell
@peterhowell
Come work alongside myself on Cambria and more. 😎🚀🪄🎉
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James Senior
@jsenior
I'm hiring; come join our amazing team! We're delivering the apps & content for the Metaverse / Virtual Reality that help people further themselves at work and in their personal lives. For a taste of the work we do tune into our Connect keynote (11th Oct) metacareers.com/jobs/784735376
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Peter Howell
@peterhowell
Building a non-gaming app for Quest? Let's chat.
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Anand Dass
@ananddass
ooh and....if you are building VR or MR/AR Apps focused on Work, 3D creation, fitness/sports, mental wellness, learning, travel that are direct to consumer or hybrid (consumer+business) message me :-) #Oculus #MetaQuest #VirtualReality #mixedreality #AugmentedReality
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Peter Howell
@peterhowell
MR comes to life with Presence Platform. A great on-ramp to devs who want to experiment and productize.
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andrés ornelas
@andres
never been a better time to jump into Mixed Reality, which blurs the line between VR and AR 🤩🌌 here's how to get started! 👇 developer.oculus.com/presence-platf #Cambria #MetaQuest2 #mixedreality #passthrough
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Peter Howell
@peterhowell
If there’s only one feature you check out in
@ArkioHQ
, try components. It feels like a superpower.
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Arkio
@ArkioHQ
Design with components in Arkio. Coming to the @MetaQuestVR Store on March 31st. 🔴 Join our LIVE event on March 31st: bit.ly/Arkio-Live #VirtualReality #MixedReality #MetaQuest
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Peter Howell
@peterhowell
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@ArkioHQ
is a step change in collaborative environment design and scene assembly. 🤯 Intuitive UX 🚀 Unity, Revit, Rhino & SketchUp import/export 🏡 Passthrough support & LiDAR import 👥 Up to 24 editors in real-time A hearty congrats to Hilmar & co. on today's launch.
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Arkio
@ArkioHQ
🎉 We are now officially on the @MetaQuestVR store! Download it for free and start testing it! 👇 oculus.com/experiences/qu #MetaQuest2 #OculusQuest2
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Neel Bedekar
@neelbedekar
If you're a VR developer, check out my FB Connect talk, unveiling Application SpaceWarp! It can unlock a massive amount of additional CPU and GPU compute for your Quest applications. Feel free to try it out and let us know your thoughts! lnkd.in/giNASztR #Facebookconnect
metaconnect.com
Meta Connect 2022 | Metaverse Virtual Event | Meta Connect
Meta Connect 2022 is finally here! Join us on October 11th, 2022 to hear from Mark Zuckerberg about the future of VR, the Metaverse and Meta Horizon Worlds!
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Peter Howell
@peterhowell
If you’re at all interested in latency, streaming & connectivity, this interview with
@scrawford
is a great listen. Her book Fiber is well worth reading too. Think War of the Currents but today.
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Peter Kafka
@pkafka
I got to talk to super-smart broadband expert @scrawford about America's internet problem and how to fix it. - which is what her new book is about. amazon.com/Fiber-Coming-R itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/har
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