Road to VR

JANUARY 22, 2021

Even before Facebook moved to require all new Oculus users to sign in with Facebook , Oculus headset users were rightfully worried about the company’s treatment of user privacy. “Today Microsoft is considered perhaps the most trustworthy software vendor in the world. I think this is a model for us at Facebook.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2019

A year ago, in response to Sony consistently delivering high-quality exclusives for PS4, Microsoft made a commitment to rejuvenating its first-party game development efforts and went on a shopping spree, acquiring a handful of respected studios to bolster its first-party game development talent under the Xbox Game Studios banner.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2019

I’ve been pondering solutions for a viable Metaverse since at least 2004. I used to program mainly medical software and still do sporadically, but I try and focus on next-gen virtual worlds. But, as I mentioned in a previous question, I plan on releasing the Minecraft teleportation software before the end of this year.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2019

The digitization was accomplished in 2004 with generous support from the Andrew W. Mueller developed the first software package offering “procedural city modeling,” that is, software that automatically populated a digital model of the terrain and streets of a city with buildings similar in appearance to those in the real city.

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