Gerald McAlister
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Gerald McAlister
@gemisis.bsky.social
Focused on #VR #MR #AI #Web3 | he/him | Software Engineer @ Meta Reality Labs | Previously @ Amazon Alexa | AR/VR side projects @ RGB Schemes | Opinions are mine
Every now and then I go through an old box and find some fun piece of nostalgia from the past decade in VR 🥰

It’s amazing how far we’ve come in such a short time!
April 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I’m really curious if they’ll use the IR cameras too for tracking, or if it’ll be limited to hand tracking only for drift correction. Same with exposing haptics APIs

In either case, this is great news for devs! Unified controls is awesome and the PSVR2 controllers are one of the highlights of PSVR2
December 8, 2024 at 10:24 PM
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To all my #VR #AR #XR developer friends:

If you have released a title this year / have updated your existing one and don't know what I am working on right now, please get in touch ASAP. DMs open!
November 28, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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I made accounts for @cubismvr.bsky.social and @laserdancegame.bsky.social - give them a follow!
Hi BlueSky👋

I run a one-man XR studio where I'm currently developing 'Laser Dance', a mixed reality game that turns your living room into a laser obstacle course.
Previously I made puzzle game 'Cubism', where you build increasingly complex shapes out of colorful blocks.

Follow here for updates!
November 14, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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Hey Bluesky👋

Laser Dance is a mixed reality game for Meta Quest that'll transform your living room into a laser obstacle course, straight out of a spy film!

Follow for updates 🙌
November 14, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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Hey Bluesky👋

Cubism is a deceptively simple XR puzzle game where you piece together increasingly complex shapes out of colorful blocks.

Out now on Meta Quest and other platforms (see link in bio) - follow here for updates!
November 14, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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We've now reached the limit for accounts we can add, so @henrystockdale.com will be creating a second Starter Pack soon. If you're not on the first and would like to be added, please let him know
New to Bluesky and looking for VR/XR people to follow? Our @henrystockdale.com has prepared a Starter Pack with some suggestions go.bsky.app/QSzCkRM
November 5, 2024 at 9:31 AM
So excited for the volume mixer launch!!! I’ve been pushing for this for so long, and I’m glad to see my work finally get released! 😊

www.meta.com/blog/quest/m...
Meta Quest v71 Update: A New Look for Horizon OS, Train Travel, A Calendar App, and More
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November 1, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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Hi to all my new (and old) followers!

I am Mark and I have been doing #VR, #AR and #MR stuff since 2012.

Just shipped Starship Home for #MetaQuest3S, but you might know me from "SUPERHOT VR", a Tilt Five launch title called "Mark's Magnificent Marble Maze" or my Quest launch title "Gravity Lab"
October 22, 2024 at 2:35 AM
Currently purchasing a new home and had this conversation:

Spouse: “We’ll need to get couches that are easy to move for the living room”
Me: “Why?”
Them: “So we can easily move it out of the way for VR space”

It’s been exciting planning out how we’ll make VR/MR a deeper part of our home this time!
October 22, 2024 at 3:38 AM
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Made a quick Starter Pack for the VR community! If there's anyone you think I should add, let me know! Also, if you don't mind, repost this so more people can see it, thus showing me more people I should add :D

go.bsky.app/LPyVNsN
October 19, 2024 at 7:08 PM
The positivity and seeing actual XR folks over here is really making BlueSky into a solid platform finally. It finally feels like we’ve got an alternative to Twitter that fits the proper niche. Threads was close, but the near-ness to Insta/FB meant I felt limited to what I wanted to post.
October 20, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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New to Bluesky and looking for VR/XR people to follow? Our @henrystockdale.com has prepared a Starter Pack with some suggestions go.bsky.app/QSzCkRM
October 19, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Alrighy, fun little app idea: so folks love building little emulators for older coding languages and runtimes like DoS right? We need that same thing, but punchcards in MR. Have it physically in the room and such. Maybe get some real world interaction going with some real world cards that work?
October 19, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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Algo test — who can see this message?

If this gets twenty likes I’ll start posting a lot more over here.
October 19, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Alright this is a pretty cool feature 😲
October 18, 2024 at 5:02 AM
Think it might be finally time to quit twitter altogether and go all in on here/Threads

Though I need to find a better balance on rants vs actually posting fun things 😅

Should probably just do progress pics on my side-projects finally? Do people actually find those interesting?
October 18, 2024 at 4:46 AM
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XR NETWORKING THREAD 🚨 If you’re in the industry and want to connect with new people coming in (or vice versa), drop a line here to introduce yourself so people can follow you. RT to spread this list around!
July 2, 2023 at 5:49 PM