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Alex Coulombe
@ibrews.bsky.social
architect turned XR-chitect crafting virtual spaces and the spectacles within | CEO, Agile Lens: Immersive Design, XR strike force | Unreal Engine Authorized Instructor & Toolmaker | Theatre is cool
Just posted the meetup page today & our December 4 Unreal NYC event is half full !

Run, don't walk, to sign up here: www.meetup.com/unrealengine...

Hosted @svanyc.bsky.social
Food & swag @epicgames.alt.store.ap.brid.gy

Andrew Delgado, Journey
Yu-Jun Yeh, Agile Lens
Ajinkya Hukerikar, Zero Density
November 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
It’s cool Meta is giving $100 off promo codes out, but weird that at checkout it says “this code is no longer valid” — the email says good thru December 31st.

I mean a refurbished Quest 3S for $169.99 would be an absolutely insane deal.
November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
We’re off to Vancouver to teach some Unreal Engine !!
November 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
wish us luck!!
give us those steam frames nom nom nom
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
In Galaxy XR I shared my view with Gemini to see if it could help me do better at Cyberpunk 2077
November 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I mean sure
November 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
My most popular use of Gemini so far in Galaxy XR ? Opening up games I haven’t played in a while and asking for help with the controls and reminding me where I am in the story.

It’s actually pretty good at this given enough context.
November 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
How do you know if a game is good?

Don't watch the game, watch the player-- a reaction like this is everything.

Can't wait for everyone to check out @laserdancegame.bsky.social from @tovanbo.bsky.social !!
October 31, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Watch me play pickleball with @ianhamilton.net for 11 minutes while I talk over the video in a late night ramble about the state of XR !

youtu.be/AMsg8nHjn4A
October 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Food Bank of NYC is matching donations at 5x today !

give.foodbanknyc.org/campaign/725...
October 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
And yes I’ve removed the spacer and I’m using just a leather forehead pad with velcro
October 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The tighter I wind the Galaxy XR, the wider my field of view and the more immersed I feel as the lenses get closer to my eyes.

The only problem? It becomes a blood pressure test for my head and produces a headache in roughly 60 seconds.
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Really feels like pickleball.

Also: Two people can play together using a single set of PSVR2 controllers (as long as one of you doesn't mind being left handed or holding the left controller w/ your right hand).

And if your headsets are part of the same Family? You only need to buy the app ONCE.
October 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Pickle Pro is already the game I've spent the most time playing in VisionOS. It's excellent mixed reality and gets your heart pumping!
October 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Right now we can get a floating 2D window of the OpenXR template to run, but it's not full VR and doesn't respond to any input. We've been studying the native libraries and the kind of AndroidManifest output by Unity, recompiling Unreal source to match it, but so far no luck.
October 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Hahah this guy asked Gemini what the Galaxy XR headset was and it told him it was a Meta Quest Pro
youtu.be/xpmiUR0_kgo?...
October 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
and more!
October 24, 2025 at 5:38 AM
More photos !
October 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Photos from Unreal NYC featuring brilliants talks from
@mattworkmancine.bsky.social
+
@woodydevs.bsky.social
&
a mind-blowing markerless mocap demo from Movin Tracin !
October 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM
holdddd on... you can just plug a Meta Quest directly into a monitor and get a direct feed to it ??
October 24, 2025 at 5:17 AM
What it actually looked like:
October 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
End of the Pickle Pro game @ianhamilton.net and I played today in Vision Pro. He was in M5 and I was in M2.

It felt good!
October 24, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Folks trying the M5 Vision Pro at Grand Central yesterday. My appointment started almost 30 minutes late and once the docent heard I use my M2 Vision Pro all the time he didn’t really know what to do with me.
October 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
A few quick thoughts on Galaxy XR before we lent our headset to @ianhamilton.net for the weekend (since it’s silly Samsung didn’t provide UploadVR with a review unit and the one they ordered at their own expense won’t come for weeks).
October 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Just booked a Moohan demo way out in Long Island for Thursday the 23rd. A little frustrating that I can't just go to the Google Chelsea office a couple blocks from Agile Lens, but oh well 😅

www.samsung.com/us/store/ins...
October 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM