Andy Biar

Unity OpenXR: Spatial Entities is live and supported for all Unity 6 versions! Thanks to Khronos for inviting me to share the news at SIGGRAPH 2026. youtu.be/V68nO3Vxok8?...

Today is an exciting career day -- I am now a published contributor to the OpenXR specification, joining another Unity colleague with our first credited contributions. On a personal note, I am proud to play my part as contributor to an open and interoperable XR ecosystem.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Hello world! I'm presenting some of Unity's latest OpenXR work at the SIGGRAPH Birds of a Feather event next week: www.khronos.org/events/siggr... I'll be sticking around for conversation afterward if anyone wants to chat!

Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ

🎥 NEW: Marc Elias spent years litigating Watson v. RNC all the way to SCOTUS. Today, he explains the Court's 5-4 ruling rejecting the RNC's effort to throw out mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterward and argues why every state should adopt this rule NOW👇

Introducing Unity support for XREAL AURA wired glasses, the newest addition to Google’s Android XR ecosystem! 👓 🔗 Read the full announcement post and get started: on.unity.com/WiredGlasses #Unity #XREAL #AndroidXR | @developers.google.com @xreal-global.bsky.social

If you are coming to LA for AWE next week and want to chat about Unity / XR / AR Foundation, hit me up! I don't have a conference ticket but I'll be around.

NEW XR JOB OPENING: Our last senior product manager was recently promoted, and now we need a new senior product manager! unity.com/careers/posi...

The images of the smoke over Tehran are shocking. billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-dark-and...

Our XR product team is running a survey right now. We'd love to hear from you if you are a Unity XR developer! discussions.unity.com/t/unity-xr-u...

BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/

Been thinking about this all morning. AI isn't just the sum of all human knowledge -- it's expanding human knowledge. openai.com/index/new-re...

Shout out to @codeforamerica.org for making www.getyourrefund.org/en. Free tax filing should be an option for everyone.

I'm out here dying of thirst for artistic iOS games. This looks super cool!

Live at the World Economic Forum: SUCK, an AR intervention by @drawing.bsky.social & me. Read more about it here: www.realitystudies.co/p/wef-davos-...

We’re deeply honored that HADES II is in the running for Game of the Year and more at #TheGameAwards tonight, especially since we’re in the company of such an amazing group of wildly different and beautiful games. Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

I've given the Roberts court the benefit of the doubt for too long. This is deeply troubling to say the least.

I haven't watched yet, but oh hey bookmark this talk! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEKm... The Road Map talk is a once-a-year glimpse into how Unity leadership thinks about the product, and what's coming up!

🔥Unity just announced XR Hands Package 1.7.0 that enables devs to create custom gestures even easier! The steps in Unity: 1️⃣ Connect your headset 2️⃣ Record the gesture on your device 3️⃣ Import the recordings into Unity

We made (a lot) of things! Come check out what we did for Android XR on the Galaxy XR Headset!

Mabel & I hope all our fellow Californians vote YES on Prop. 50! #FightFireWithFire

Selfishly, my favorite thing about the rise of AI is that traffic on the Unity forums that I monitor has noticeably declined. I hope you all are getting good answers to your questions out there!

Unity just released a really nice guide for landing your first role as a junior game programmer: cdn.bfldr.com/s5bc9y64/at/... A commendable effort I definitely thought was worth sharing.

Unity's accessibility team quietly doing great work. Native screen reader support for Windows and Mac just dropped. discussions.unity.com/t/native-des...

It's been a while. Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs. store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...

This decision sets our country back decades. Donald Trump is intentionally pushing unconstitutional policies and this Supreme Court is giving him the green light to do so. It must be condemned and Congress must act to stop him. www.npr.org/2025/06/27/n...

This week Khronos released the OpenXR Spatial Entities extensions, a new cross-vendor standard for mixed reality app development. www.khronos.org/blog/openxr-... The implications for AR Foundation are massive, and I'm excited to lead Unity's integration of the new standard.

BREAKING: A voting rights group is suing Montana over a new voter suppression law targeting college students Under HB 413, students must say they’ll stay in the state after graduation in order to register to vote. From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

My favorite Canadian clothing brand has discontinued shipping to the US altogether :/. The tariffs are a real shame.

Maybe all my mutuals already know of Marc. But in case you don't, you should!

Three weeks ago Hamdan Ballal accepted the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature alongside his Palestinian and Israeli creative team. Today he is detained by the Israeli military after settlers violently attacked him at his home. This is horrible. apnews.com/article/no-o...

PSA for Meta Quest users, please be aware that there is a regression in the v74 PC runtime that causes the environment depth provider (occlusion) to hang forever on Quest Link. This regression affects users of Unity OpenXR: Meta 2.1.0, and we have notified Meta. In the meantime, build to device!

Last plug for the Unity XR GDC talk! Because Unity is sponsoring the talk, anyone with an Expo pass can attend, which is rad! Tuesday 1:20pm schedule.gdconf.com/session/unit...

My favorite part about Meta's blog post: "As of Unity's OpenXR Plugin 1.14, the OpenXR Meta package has achieved feature and performance parity with the Oculus XR plugin," That's my team! :D We've been working on this for a while! developers.meta.com/horizon/blog...

www.erininthemorning.com/p/powerful-s... Rep Howell's speech joins the opening montage from Pixar's Up on my list of 5-minute videos that brought me to tears.

I'm excited to share I'll be giving a talk at #GDC2025 this year with @andybiar.bsky.social on cross-platform Mixed Reality! Going to be a bit more technical, talking about OpenXR, Meta Quest, AndroidXR and Apple Vision Pro More info on @unity.com #GDC stuff here: unity.com/events/gdc

Congrats to the Flow team for their Best Animated Feature win! I believe this is the first animated feature made in Blender to win an Oscar? A great day for free open source software!

The most important thing I read today: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Unity has asked me to co-present a refreshed "Immersive Experiences" talk at GDC! This is my first time speaking at GDC, any advice? Also if you are in the XR space and attending, let's meet up!

Applications are Open for the 2025 Unity for Humanity grant. This is still one of my favorite things that Unity does. unity.com/humanity

So this is later than expected, but we shipped a pre-release of Unity OpenXR: Meta that includes support for Meta Quest Link: docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com... If you are an AR Foundation dev on Unity 6, huge news! We're finalizing some occlusion work before we ship the final 2.1.0.

Senior Program Manager role is open on the Unity XR team: unity.com/careers/posi...

Excited to share the Unity OpenXR: Android XR package, our in-house AR Foundation implementation for Android XR. If you are developing for Meta Quest with AR Foundation today, you don't need to change any code to use the same features on Android XR. developer.android.com/develop/xr/u...

If you aren't familiar with me, hi! I'm a senior engineer on Unity's XR team, and the technical lead for AR Foundation and its ARCore, ARKit, and Meta Quest implementations. Here's our team's latest info from Unite 2024. (Pardon my nerves in the beginning hehe) www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW27...