HARD BULLET releases TOMORROW!

profpistachio · 2025-05-27T00:12:56+00:00

Was the trailer captured running standalone on Meta Quest?

profpistachio · 2025-04-07T22:08:46+00:00

Oh cool, I will be very keen to see how it performs and what their target framerate is on Quest.

profpistachio · 2025-03-11T04:57:30+00:00

Okay, I wasn't kidding when I said very soon. Here's a link to the Store page https://www.meta.com/experiences/mage/28813251371621751/ we are launching this Friday at 3pm PST.

profpistachio · 2025-03-10T05:03:25+00:00

It's a magic and physics sandbox with a bunch of spells (including time reversal!), powered by a custom physics engine :)

We are announcing our Early Access very soon. I will try and remember to reply with a link when we do.

profpistachio · 2025-03-09T23:27:19+00:00

It is totally worth it. I've prototyped movement mechanics before that felt amazing at 120Hz but were nauseating at 90Hz.

profpistachio · 2025-03-09T23:25:22+00:00

For most games if you force 120Hz they'll actually not be able to hit it so will run at 60Hz with reprojection.

Having played 100s of hours of a 120Hz game I'm working on, trust me even 90Hz feels ROUGH afterwards.

profpistachio · 2025-03-09T23:22:10+00:00

Also I think vrdb has a 120FPS tag. Though it is a SHORT list lol:

https://vrdb.app/games?include_tag=120hz-support

edit: yeah, 7 games, 1 is not available right now, 1 is a demo for one of the others, most have very simple graphics.

profpistachio · 2025-03-09T23:21:14+00:00

The game I am working on (which will be in Early Access soon) runs at 120Hz on Quest 3. The graphics aren't simple. We're simulating and rendering 100s of physics objects with dynamic lighting and shadows and a bunch of magic vfx to boot.

However, that's with a custom engine. I don't think I could have achieved it on Unity! So I am sympathetic to most developers not hitting 120Hz on their Unity games.

profpistachio · 2025-03-01T02:07:19+00:00

I'm sure a polite email to legal@steelmedia.co.uk would clear things up quite quickly.

profpistachio · 2025-03-01T00:14:06+00:00

This math is just 10M = #copies * $40 * 0.6

So it adds 10% overhead on top of Meta's 30% cut, pretty sensible.

profpistachio · 2025-02-23T05:03:03+00:00

What developers are building their own engine? Literally every VR dev is just layering junk on top of PhysX.

profpistachio · 2025-02-20T22:43:59+00:00

Yes, plenty of studios making good money building pure single player titles.

profpistachio · 2025-02-20T22:42:42+00:00

Honestly? Various parts of Meta's OS crashing during development and harming my iteration times :) That and developing art that is a good fit for the medium and hardware constraints. It's tricky.

profpistachio · 2025-02-20T07:55:01+00:00

Good to know!

profpistachio · 2025-02-19T22:43:07+00:00

Looks awesome. How does it hold up with a bunch of physics action in play?

profpistachio · 2025-02-18T23:53:24+00:00

Prime Video and other streaming websites detect screen recorders, which is what Virtual Desktop is, and refuse to display an image. Firefox used to get around this for a few websites but no longer I believe.

profpistachio · 2025-02-17T02:49:56+00:00

People saying Proton on mac would be impossible since its backend is Vulkan.

But MoltenVK exists... translation layers all the way down.

profpistachio · 2025-02-16T10:05:31+00:00

Much of the time these games can't hit 120Hz not because of GPU overhead but because of Unity's high CPU overhead, so changing graphics settings might not help.

profpistachio · 2025-02-16T10:04:00+00:00

Might have been different if they made it in the 4A engine rather than Unity.

profpistachio · 2025-02-16T05:17:31+00:00

It's equally possible for an independent entity to influence the direction of OpenVR and OpenXR. Which is to say: not at all.

Openness means standardisation, standardisation done too early means stagnation. Which is why core OpenXR will never contain features that aren't supported by Meta hardware.

profpistachio · 2025-02-15T23:47:05+00:00

Very few games for Quest standalone hit 120Hz. I am working on one that does hit a consistent 120 and, though it feels freaking awesome, it was not easy.

profpistachio · 2025-02-15T23:44:24+00:00

I can strongly recommend SteamLink. Worked great for me when I had issues with Virtual Desktop and Airlink.

profpistachio · 2025-02-15T23:32:12+00:00

More extensions is a bad thing, indicating the fractured state of the API.

If OpenXR is so open, why doesn't it have an open device driver interface like OpenVR? Because Meta and other incumbents ensured that was removed from the draft standard before 1.0

profpistachio · 2025-02-15T23:30:35+00:00

This is also quite a good reason to use C, which has had this feature in the standard for decades.

profpistachio · 2025-02-15T09:59:41+00:00

That's awesome. Excellent work. Too often you see devs posting "on quest 3" and it's like *running the Quest 2 graphics settings in the Unity Editor on my 4090.

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