I think we’ll get there eventually, but i believe VR could have been much bigger today if it hadn’t been overshadowed by the failures in the MR space.

The sad thing in my eyes is that indeed, Oculus figured out VR, then Meta decided to take it into a completely different direction the world wasn’t ready for yet.

The result was confusion. A great vision we fell far short of, with an industry loosing faith.

Dev stream 82 - Having a look at texture streaming YouTube video by Bastiaan Olij

Going to do a quick adhoc stream looking at TDaven's texture streaming PR. We'll see how far we get in an hour and a bit :)

youtube.com/live/BhiML1k...

I am literally as far away as a possibly can be, and thus so jealous. One of these years I will make it! I hope they will choose Amsterdam in future years.

IGDA Beer and pixels tonight, might see if I can make it, haven’t been for awhile

Godot Stencil Holo YouTube video by Bastiaan Olij

I had intended this to be a YouTube short, but it ran over a bit. Some might still find it useful. Focused on XR but works just as fine for non-XR use cases.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0_K...

Hey, april fools was a week ago!!! 😂

We demand a penguin plush!! ;)

Rofl, nope, but i am glad the versioning of the vendors plugin is now fully out of lockstep. Has caused way too much confusion over the years:)

Send me a dm and we’ll talk some more:)

Release 5.0.0-stable · GodotVR/godot_openxr_vendors IMPORTANT: This release of the OpenXR vendors plugin is for Godot 4.6 and later only Changes in this release (since v4.3.0-stable): Do not initialize light estimation extension if unsupported (#47...

The Godot XR team just released v5 of the OpenXR vendor plugin. This new release sees a number of big additions to the plugin. See the full list on the release page.

This version requires Godot 4.6 or later.

github.com/GodotVR/godo...

Proud to have had a hand in making this happen. Adding visibility to what is supported in middleware helps move the standard forward and give much needed clarity to developers.

Cool!! Congrats!

I’m not saying one is better than the other or that these are even the only outcomes, they are the extremes. The real solution might lie somewhere completely different

I agree, we have taken the humanity out of it all. The conquest of profits and enrichment of the few at the top, it’s a bad system.

Or you could argue that a society that requires people to be employed to survive is a broken society, that maybe hunan life and dignity should not be beholden to your job status.

That is under the assumption we can possibly gainfully employ the entire population. But yes, one could argue that technological advancements that lesson the need for employment are bad for society.

All in all, earths population is far outpacing job growth.

Even farms are moving more and more to automation.

We felt safe as we just move to higher skilled labor, but that now is at risk too.

With the latest being the crazyness around AI. I’m hoping it’ll be a bubbling bursting soon, but it feels different somehow.

I hope it is, so far most technological advancements have lead to more jobs replacing those lost. But we are seeing a tipping point.

Either manual labor is automated, or moves to low wage countries that do not have the labor protections we have.

No, i’m just extrapolating. It’s not UBI that causes the scenario i sketch, just that it’s a possible way forward.

The scenario is the path we are on where there is less and less need for humans to work.

*group of people

What I mean is, if the majority of the population is on UBI, and only a small geoup of people are required to perform labor to keep things running, will that lead to prosperity or collapse, thats the unknown

Which is why it’s so disappointing that we don’t properly tax the mining industry, but thats big money in politics, there is plenty of support for it amongst voters

It’s a very interesting concept, i have no idea how it will work at scale.

I also very much agree that cities might be detrimental to the human condition. But i’m biased having grown up in a small town, now living in a big city, and longing not too some day

I do blame the media, text is a horrible form of communication, it’s so easy to be misunderstood because you lack body language and tone.

I’ve gotten very cynical at my old age, and I am Dutch which seems that I come across to direct without meaning to.

Totally agree that a healthy debate where people respect eachothers point of view and try to learn from eachother is the right way. Sadly that is rare online.

I would be careful thinking Australia is much better off than the US. I think we’re better at hiding it here but it’s clear the mega wealthy have their hands big time on both LNP and Labor

There is a balance point, to few parties means nothing really happens, too many parties and you can’t make good plans. Holland defo went nuts with parties that only stand for one thing, instead of a well thought out plan.
And yes money in politics is evil:(

In the scheme of things, it’s not a long time imho:)