Rune Berg

Haven't posted an intro yet! XR Developer, ex-Valve contractor on SteamVR/OpenXR, now a Khronos OpenXR Advisory Panel member. Sharing vids I couldn’t import from Twitter. Currently working on a #MixedReality project powered by my custom #OpenXR library. A thread 👇 youtube.com/shorts/EtRna...

Got OpenXR running on Apple Vision Pro with vision-openxr, my experimental runtime. Godot uses Metal, my C++ xrlib demo uses Vulkan via MoltenVK and shares OpenXR code with Meta Quest. github.com/1runeberg/xr... #OpenXR #visionOS #Vulkan

Spending the weekend chilling with some games on Vision Pro. With TFT, it took a bit of finagling to get everything hooked up since it doesn’t have native Mac support and there’s no Steam Link, but got it working nicely now. Note: no work context involved here, just for fun!

Been getting into TFT over the last 3 weeks after my Riot Games denewb. Did a test Twitch stream today and caught myself hitting Silver I! 🥳 Follow to see if I can reach Gold at some point - or fall back to the depths of Silver 😅 Either way it'll be a fun ride. www.twitch.tv/videos/26604...

First… the Steam Deck Now… Steam Controller, Steam Machine & Steam Frame. Welcome to the family you awesome and powerful lil siblings. So proud of all the hard work of our Hardware department. Smart, creative and genuinely great people🥳 m.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKr...

Now in Sydney for a new job adventure (more soon)… for now, enjoying the first bbq of the season! 🍖🌉

Any NZ devs here attending #NZGDC? I'm going and would love to hang out with Kiwi #XR devs. Also, come to my talk 🙂

Updated my native (C++20) OpenXR library + Vulkan renderer to support several new spec extensions - incl. first & most recent official standards I co-authored for Valve: Hand Joints Motion Range and Hand Interaction. youtu.be/SY8_EadeGvI

Polyarc is hiring! 💚🎮 We are a flexible remote studio committed to collaboration, mentorship, accountability, and creative expression. 🎨 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆! 🎯 Principal Project Manager 🎨 Creative Services Director #gamejobs #gamedev

Love the portability of the #SteamDeck, but sometimes you just want a giant screen - #AppleVisionPro currently fills this gap.

Landslide! Thrilled to see Labor win. Normally don't mind the usual swings between Labor+Greens and Liberals+Nationals, the Liberal leader's recent dog whistling pushed me to vote Labor instead of my usual Greens. Bonus: Lost his seat held by Liberals for 24 yrs! Go trumpin get a thumpin I guess?

Australia votes … only in Aus 😂 Photo by Jessica Hromas/The Guardian

One more week before the Godot XR Game jam starts! itch.io/jam/godot-xr...

Want to see something cool? We revisited the real library that inspired the one in Moss! (Location: Suzzallo Library on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, WA) This would be perfect paired with the Moss Book 2 soundtrack: youtube.com/playlist?lis... #GameDev #MR #VRgaming #cozygame 🎮

At SIGGRAPH Asia, we hosted an OpenXR Birds of a Feather featuring the latest advancements, challenges, and best practices in leveraging #OpenXR's versatile framework. The BOF was recorded and is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXYe...

Coming up, Episode III

Testing input, render modes & PBR tonemap in my latest #xrlib demo, with some #mixedreality magic ✨ xrlib is my lightweight #openxr C++ wrapper and renderer for native XR apps. 🔗 Code & demos: github.com/1runeberg/xrlib 🎮 Join XR dev chat: discord.gg/PNRFThSVrj 📺 Demo: youtu.be/gKtBfLZGCbk

Hey Bsky, we're giving away a Quest 3S headset for every new 1,000 followers we gain during the holidays. 🎁🎄 To enter: 1️⃣ Follow us! 2️⃣ Repost this post! 3️⃣ Tag 3 friends who you think deserve a headset this holiday! We'll announce the winners in January!! #games #indiegame 🎮 #vr #gaming

A special Christmas message from Richie himself! 🎄 We're giving away over $2000 of prizes in Richie's Plank Experience and all you have to do is play the new Santa Simulator mode. The highest scores will win! Good luck and happy holidays. 🎁 #VR #VirtualReality

Working on my skinning pipeline: GLTF → OpenXR+Vulkan → GLSL. Left: Decent result with just palm and wrist. Center: My actual hand with debug markers. Right: Lovecraft would be proud! Or perhaps I should just tag this 'Generative AI Skinning' and call it a day! 😅 youtu.be/gdzcg7_cTKU

Video premiering now. There is also a key giveaway :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xCo... #VR #AR #MR #MixedReality #games

I'm putting together a starter pack of individuals and companies championing OpenXR! 🙌 Are you working on an OpenXR based engine, runtime, extension, API layer? Writing docs or tutorials to help people get started? Please reach out and I'll add you to the list! go.bsky.app/LRHRUMo

An important message from our team at Toast Interactive.

Open-sourced my standalone interface app for #Ollama & #OpenAI LLMs. No containers/tools needed. Chats are managed as local json and optionally encrypt with assets. Executables in releases. No signing certs atm, so consider sponsoring if useful :) 🔗 https://github.com/1runeberg/confichat

Been tinkering w/ a privacy-focused chat app #ConfiChat . Handles local models via @ollama and online @OpenAI w/ local history encryption. Looking for beta testers but planning to open-source this w/e. Pls let me know if I should keep the "cutesy" branding. Not so sure about it

Always felt foreign language practice is a great use for #LLMs First attempt at fine-tuning Meta's llama3.1 (via @ollama ) to help with my now rusty German - lived in Germany for 5 years but have been away for as long. Great immersion substitute I think! (red: AI, yellow: me)

This got me curious if these models can generate doxygen comments, so I fed #ChatGPT and #ClaudeAI code from my OpenXR wrapper lib and url to the spec. Claude came up with "ok" results but chatgpt seems unable to access the spec. Not quite useable but seems getting there imo.

Been testing @ChatGPTapp & @AnthropicAI side-by-side for some of my more boring tasks. Here's an interesting one using a quick sparse prompt. #chatgpt4o provided an interesting name; #ClaudeAI is I guess an Apple fan 😆 Both hallucinated features but leaning on ChatGPT on this

Just tried the new ChatGPT model. My German's super rusty so thought I'd see if it can help with practice, from the basics. Perhaps my pronunciation is super bad as it thought I was speaking Japanese at one point 🤣 Here's the transcript: https://chatgpt.com/c/4a06c996-a0f0-464a-b71a-395bb141d02b

Portability, device agnosticism, and accessibility are hallmarks of modern actions-based input that has served the wider games industry well. #OpenXR is capable of this - happy to announce that we're working to unlock this potential for @thekhronosgroup beyondreality.io/projects/#kh...

There's been a sudden spike of interest with my @OpenXR provider lib & demos in @Github. It *appears* to coincide with the @Meta #Quest3 shipping date. I'm glad there's so much interest with OpenXR and if traffic is indeed Quest3 related, MR content specifically 🧵1/4

Happy that my #openxr provider repo is getting quite a bit of interest @github - however, it's eating up my bandwidth faster than I can purchase packs for it. The spike is so sudden, are these bots or some valid use (e.g. school)? I haven't really done any active promoting.

Happy New Year #NZ #Matariki !!! 🎉🥳🌌

Very cool - could've saved me from a dislocated shoulder when I was young. https://twitter.com/DavidMarakXR/status/1676839679180587008

One year on: "The cutest dog in the world" #midjourney vs #dalle

Nice! Anyone who can report back if MacBook Air is sufficient with the emulator that'd be great 🙏 https://twitter.com/DanMillerDev/status/1671615065152430080

Cool to see titles starting to embrace possibilities of passthrough and scene understanding! And even cooler to see the southern hemisphere representing 🍻 https://twitter.com/EspireVr/status/1669059012564795397

Why build a #vr game "editor" from the ground-up when you can just extend #Blender3d 🍩😁 Coming soon to my #openxr provider library!

Thanks for the feedback - still noodling. But as requested, releasing code & binaries early in a dev branch for folks who wish to follow along! Closest I’ve gotten to moving seamlessly in-and-out of different realities ala Star Trek’s holodeck. Enjoy!🖖 https://t.co/UNXZpHIBZC https://t.co/B...

Noodling a level transition mechanic for a WIP reusable app template+interaction demo for my #OpenXR library. Wanting something bespoke to #XR like The Lab’s orbs for #VR. What do you folks think of this? (Similar code to the eye tracking demo but switched it up a bit)

Bit of fun traversing realities: #EyeTracking #Passthrough and custom Vulkan graphics pipelines for my #OpenXR library This is Demo 9: Hidden Worlds. Code and binaries here: https://github.com/1runeberg/OpenXRProvider_v2 HAPPY WEEKEND EVERYONE🌞

Mixing Realities 2023 - There's just something compelling being able to traverse realities. I feel ppl who are VR-hesitant might feel more comfortable being able to peek out and see a comforting face #openxr #passthrough #xr #vr https://github.com/1runeberg/OpenXRProvider_v2

Mixing realities: Using multi-and-single vendor exts in my #OpenXR provider library - FB #passthrough and Hand Tracking. This was super fun! Notes here: https://t.co/VZvpJ9b4K4 Code and prebuilt apks: https://t.co/aLSI3Jlsm0

Decided to rewrite my #OpenXR library to support both PC-and-mobile (Android/Quest), and focus only on #VulkanAPI. Still WIP - but pretty happy with my PBR renderer which I plan to formally improve on as an optional module as it's a fun tinker 😄 https://github.com/1runeberg/OpenXRProvider_v2

🪲 https://twitter.com/RtoVR/status/1559570751648399361

Let's have some #vr / #openxr entries! https://twitter.com/UnrealEngine/status/1557467944342491138

"The cutest dog in the world" #midjourney vs #dalle Who did it better?😆