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J Dakota Powell
@jdakotapowell.bsky.social
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Writer/director, 3D artist, XR dev | Founder TimeWave Studio, Prev: XR Lab (US), TimeWave (UK), Velocity Lab (UK), BNW on Bway (US), Yale #OculusStart
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🧪 M Curie (VR), The Golden Toad (VR), Atom Smashers (MR) on Quest
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Turned a room into the inside of a cloud chamber in mixed reality. User can take snapshots of particles - electrons, muons, alpha, forked and antimatter - via hand gestures. It's fun. #xr #mr #vr #Quest3 #unity3d #immersivestorytelling #science
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Working on UI/UX & gestures on an atom bomb format in #mr.. yesterday battled with quaternions & euler angles to rotate the scrapbook panels correctly around the camera every time you pull it up. #xr #vr #immersivestorytelling
October 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Creating a version of "The Golden Toad" with only hand tracking. It means conjuring some new mechanics... the hand ray is fun. Just used a custom hand pose to shoot a laser. #xr #vr #mr #unity3d #immersivestorytelling
August 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Shuffling between #MR and #VR becomes simple as pie when using Meta's #MRUK tools/shaders. Just make sure to disable the passthrough layer when in VR mode. #xr #interactive #immersivestorytelling
August 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Playing in #MR with hand tracking. Lighter isn't real but it looks and feels real. Don't need instructions - the instinct is to simply grab the lighter. The ghostly images are virtual. #xr #vr
July 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Don't know who at Meta created microgestures for low-cal teleporting (hand tracking that mimics controllers), but it's brilliant. Avoids tiring out your hands and you don't have to think about it. #xr #mr #vr #unity3d
July 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Experimenting with Meta's MRUK & Interaction SDK - it's a powerful mix. A flick of hand casts ray to populate walls with blobs. #unity3d #xr #mr #vr #interaction #handtracking
July 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Playing with Mad Wax ray gun in MR. Destroying one's room with a laser beam is fun. #xr #vr #mr #unity3d
June 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM