Dan Miller

Can't believe this #WWDC Vishnu and I's little clock app for #visionOS got sherlocked by Apple! /s In all reality it was only a mater of time, it's exciting to see how widgets are expanding and I love the idea of more content persisting. Excited to download the beta!

Huge thanks to everyone who tuned in to the Creature Feature on @ign.com yesterday! We announced @laserdancegame.bsky.social is coming to Early Access in fall, and also showed off some new gameplay footage. Here's a short behind the scenes for how we shot it! 🎥 1/9 🧵

Laser Dance is coming to ✨Early Access✨ later this fall! More details to follow soon, but be sure to wishlist the game on Meta Quest in the meantime 🙌 ➡️ bit.ly/3W0huQf

What does this mean??? @antonhand.bsky.social finished a hotdog and then said "yeah" 🌭 H3VR finally coming out of early access?! 🥲 #CreatureFeature

Sometimes I forget hand tracking is part of #ARKit on #visionOS and thus requires an AR Session in Unity scene to work...spent way too long debugging that one...

I recently finished the @pikuma.com course on making a 2D game engine with C++, SDL, ImGui and Lua! 10/10 highly recommend it. It was fun to get a deeper understanding on how all the pieces fit together and really explore ECS from an implementation side. I made a tilemap level editor as a bonus!

Monday morning: Time for the quarterly slack channel purge

Did you know Anchors on #visionOS are persistent by default starting in 2.0+? Persistent anchors are also supported on #MetaQuest and #AndroidXR Learn about these features are more at @andybiar.bsky.social 's and I's Cross-platform Mixed Reality talk at #GDC25 happening next Tuesday!

Kick this off and going to make a coffee ☕️

If you'll be at #GDC this year and are working in #XR be sure to come to the XR developer night hosted by Unity! It's Tuesday from 6pm-9pm. More details and registration here: unityxrdevelopernightgdc2025.splashthat.com I'll be there along with other colleagues!

When debugging on #visionOS it can be helpful to view the eye gaze cursor sometimes. You can enable it via accessibility settings under Interaction / Pointer Control

Here is the first glimpse of Parabrain, our engine for designing and integrating AI agents into any application. Get in touch if you have an idea we could help with 👽 liquid.city

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

me looking at the last slice of pizza

slack is down, a corporate snow day ☃️

Here’s your semi-annual reminder to clean your keyboard(s)

I'll be giving a short presentation and on a panel at the Bay Area Games and XR Industry Symposium this Friday at Northeastern's Oakland Campus. More info here: www.eventbrite.com/e/bay-area-g...

fixed a small permissions issue on quest, thanks for the catch @virtualdario.bsky.social!

Some examples with other assets, you can really easily adjust density (point distance) and the prefabs that spawn

Have you ever wanted to put "stuff" in Mixed Reality? I implemented the poisson disc sampling algorithm for AR Planes in #Unity. It's setup to customize how content appears, what content and which surfaces. It's open source and supports #MetaQuest and #AppleVisionPro github.com/DanMillerDev...

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I really should check my email more often, I can't believe I missed this from 3 days ago! #EldenRing #NightReign

Did not expect to be a Macklemore fan, but after Hinds' Hall, Hinds' Hall 2, and now Fucked Up - I gotta say, this man puts his reputation, money, and skills to more ethical and just use than 99% of people with any level of influence on this planet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn9E...

Finishing up some documentation and videos but I'm excited to release this 🔜. A small collection of cross platform mixed reality features and utilities.

Two goals I have this year for personal development are to try and maintain a commit streak on github and learn Vim motions. The first one is just about showing up, I have lots of small projects but sometimes getting started is the hardest part. The second is something fun to learn and practice.

Just found out HasFlag uses boxing so it's not great performance wise! Special thanks to @andybiar.bsky.social

I thought I was being clever with early returning with enum.HasFlag(enum.None) but it turns out HasFlag will ALWAYS return true for the none value. Turns out it's "by design" learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet...

Had a big "this worked yesterday" moment and spent awhile trying to figure out what happened. Somehow my unity project Physics settings (DynamicsManager.asset) set the Physics GameObject SDK to None. 🙃 I knew something was weird when rigidbodys wouldn't fall in play mode

This year I want to prototype a few ideas I've had for Mixed Reality games and experiences. I just finished the first one. A tamagotchi-esque sim that lets you take care of a little emoji friend, feed him and play with him 🐢 #AppleVisionPro #XR #MixedReality

It’s calling to me

Sneak peek. Working on some documentation and samples and hoping to release it next week!

Was working on a rough implementation of a feature late last night and just couldn't get it working. Woke up this morning and remembered I'd hit this problem before and worked on a solution with my buddy Arturo. Found the old repo with the last commit from 3 years ago 😮

Valve is starting off 2025 with a bang, huge #Deadlock update with 4 new hero's. Lost as Calico and Holliday but won as Vyper sliding around super fast!

someone should make a video game based on this!

Switch 2 this, switch 2 that. How about you switch to something more productive with your life and go outside.

An unexpected power outrage really throws a wrench in your day. Time to return to the before times and open a collection of paper people call books 📚

Ran into a bug where things just totally broke when I loaded a new scene. Tried debugging it for a couple days and then got fed up and made a really small repo project...except it didn't repo 🙃 Finally figured out the issue by sharing some code and rubber duckying with a coworker 🦆