Cherish the people who bet on you first. Customers, mentors, friends, family and investors.

Seen in the Miami airport. #VR is happening. #VirtualReality #Metaverse

The metaverse will be looked back on in a similar way to the mouse, or the touchscreen. It's a superior human interface idea, emphasis on human.

Day 1 onboarding at Unity: "Let's be clear: every one of you has a responsibility that whatever the metaverse is, however it unfolds, that it's free, open, and accessible to everyone." I think I'm going to like it here

Blinking now included. 😏

Resist the urge to go for the quick win. In my personal experience, quick wins never last. It’s okay to disagree with what everyone thinks is cool in tech today. It’s okay to be different.

VRChat party celebrating one year of Open Metaverse Interoperability Group, and hanging out with friends of the Metaverse. World #77077, come join us.

"For a couple of years it seemed that every second day newspapers in Europe and the USA carried articles about how we would all move into Second Life, live out our dreams as avatars and virtual landowners, and earn immense amounts of money in the process." Tamiko Thiel (2011)

I'm constantly amazed at the number of products and websites that can't clearly communicate at first glance what they do. Friction to understand just results in people moving on

What I'm currently thinking about: - Open Metaverse Infrastructure - History of virtual worlds - VR's path to mass adoption - Cloud Gaming - Technology bottlenecks & inflection points - Effective governance structures - Network effects - Hiring great talent

Experimenting with Snap AR’s City Landmarker feature blew my mind 🤯 Pointing your phone at any street and it knowing where you are & the depth of every building around is crazy This is a huge step in developing outdoor environment-aware AR experiences

Our AR project has been accepted to the SIGGRAPH 2022 Immersive Pavilion.

The Khronos Group has officially announced that the glTF 2.0 specification has been released as the ISO/IEC 12113:2022 International Standard! Learn more: khr.io/z6 #standard ISO #isostandards

We're hiring a fractional CPO with experience in one of the following areas - XR / VR - Video games - Consumer Social If you're interested or know of anyone please reach out! #xrjobs linkedin.com/posts/matthew-…

STARLIGHT SPIRE IS HERE!! Just in time for the weekend! Available now on VRChat! We hope you all enjoy your stay in our lovely city <3 #VRChat_world紹介 #VRChat #VirtualReality #ExploreVRChat #VRC

Things Nintendo made before they stumbled on video games: - Hanafuda Playing cards (1889) - "Ultra Hand" (1971) - Remote control vacuum (1979) - "Ten Billion Barrel" (1980)

Not sure I've had this much fun with a series in the ~8 years we've been doing Acquired Podcast. Even discounting recency bias, I think it's up there with our very best work... especially this episode!

We're #hiring a principal software engineer! (remote) Exciting opportunity to work on the future of the video games industry. Who should we be talking to? #SoftwareEngineer #softwaredevelopment linkedin.com/jobs/view/3609…

It gets better: Grand Theft Auto games lower crime rates When a GTA game is released, violence & crime actually drop, as potential criminals stay inside to play (This applies to other big shooters, too, so the yearly CoD releases are actually good for the world, sorry to say).