Nick Klingensmith
@koujaku.bsky.social
XR at Qualcomm, author of http://stereokit.net, http://ferrlib.com, co-founder of Simbryo, ex: Microsoft MR, Zynga VR, Breach & Clear. he/him
Aaand I whipped up a markdown renderer for it too, for documentation and rendering output from LLMs!
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Aaand I whipped up a markdown renderer for it too, for documentation and rendering output from LLMs!
Naturally, it runs StereoKit :)
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Naturally, it runs StereoKit :)
I've been noodling with my own IDE! I made a Dear ImGui backend for the new StereoKit tech, and got carried away :)
Text editor with multi-cursor, and line numbers on the right!
Built-in cmake, with easy options for passing args when running!
Capture and embed app's window!
VSCode themes!
Text editor with multi-cursor, and line numbers on the right!
Built-in cmake, with easy options for passing args when running!
Capture and embed app's window!
VSCode themes!
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I've been noodling with my own IDE! I made a Dear ImGui backend for the new StereoKit tech, and got carried away :)
Text editor with multi-cursor, and line numbers on the right!
Built-in cmake, with easy options for passing args when running!
Capture and embed app's window!
VSCode themes!
Text editor with multi-cursor, and line numbers on the right!
Built-in cmake, with easy options for passing args when running!
Capture and embed app's window!
VSCode themes!
PBR never gets old! New renderer has a nice way to generate custom mips, so I can actually get good IBL this time around. Also, bloom!
October 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
PBR never gets old! New renderer has a nice way to generate custom mips, so I can actually get good IBL this time around. Also, bloom!
I've been working on a new Vulkan renderer for StereoKit! Just over two weeks in, and I've amassed a nice collection of little feature demos :)
Instancing, single pass rendering, stencils, compute, 3D textures, mips, cubemaps, threaded upload, and a whole bunch more. Can't wait to get this into SK!
Instancing, single pass rendering, stencils, compute, 3D textures, mips, cubemaps, threaded upload, and a whole bunch more. Can't wait to get this into SK!
October 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I've been working on a new Vulkan renderer for StereoKit! Just over two weeks in, and I've amassed a nice collection of little feature demos :)
Instancing, single pass rendering, stencils, compute, 3D textures, mips, cubemaps, threaded upload, and a whole bunch more. Can't wait to get this into SK!
Instancing, single pass rendering, stencils, compute, 3D textures, mips, cubemaps, threaded upload, and a whole bunch more. Can't wait to get this into SK!
Just uploaded the code for the little water sim demo I used for v0.3.10's promo video :) Nothing crazy in here, but may be of interest to some people!
github.com/maluoi/SKWat...
github.com/maluoi/SKWat...
September 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Just uploaded the code for the little water sim demo I used for v0.3.10's promo video :) Nothing crazy in here, but may be of interest to some people!
github.com/maluoi/SKWat...
github.com/maluoi/SKWat...
Quick sketch in StereoKit, 3drwny on Twitter made a neat gif and I really wanted to touch it! No AO like the original had, but I did slot in some shadowmap stuff I've been working on.
August 15, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Quick sketch in StereoKit, 3drwny on Twitter made a neat gif and I really wanted to touch it! No AO like the original had, but I did slot in some shadowmap stuff I've been working on.
Looks like the latest SteamVR beta update has the OpenXR controller model extensions! SK v0.4 builds use it now, animation and everything. Super nice! 🥳
June 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Looks like the latest SteamVR beta update has the OpenXR controller model extensions! SK v0.4 builds use it now, animation and everything. Super nice! 🥳
StereoKit v0.3.10 is out! This XR engine has never felt so good :) Visual quality improvements, performance options, new APIs, bug fixes, a whoooole lot of work went into this release!
Check it out!
github.com/StereoKit/St...
Check it out!
github.com/StereoKit/St...
February 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM
StereoKit v0.3.10 is out! This XR engine has never felt so good :) Visual quality improvements, performance options, new APIs, bug fixes, a whoooole lot of work went into this release!
Check it out!
github.com/StereoKit/St...
Check it out!
github.com/StereoKit/St...
Here's some shots from a recent trip to Bainbridge Island! Bainbridge itself was nice, but the Seattle Ferries are remarkably photogenic! So, these are all from the ferry itself :)
January 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Here's some shots from a recent trip to Bainbridge Island! Bainbridge itself was nice, but the Seattle Ferries are remarkably photogenic! So, these are all from the ferry itself :)
More photos from London, these are all from St. Paul's Cathedral! Delightfully, they let you climb _all_ the way to the top of this one, giving you some rather spectacular views of the city! Also, very windy, and _very_ high up, kinda like a lighthouse.
January 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
More photos from London, these are all from St. Paul's Cathedral! Delightfully, they let you climb _all_ the way to the top of this one, giving you some rather spectacular views of the city! Also, very windy, and _very_ high up, kinda like a lighthouse.
In my free time I've been noodling with a small app for editing photos via shaders! Basically a shader hot-reload editor plus a reflection powered panel inspector, and on-photo editing tools for certain pre-defined types.
It's been fun to noodle on, and I'm excited for when it's more feature rich!
It's been fun to noodle on, and I'm excited for when it's more feature rich!
December 11, 2024 at 4:40 AM
In my free time I've been noodling with a small app for editing photos via shaders! Basically a shader hot-reload editor plus a reflection powered panel inspector, and on-photo editing tools for certain pre-defined types.
It's been fun to noodle on, and I'm excited for when it's more feature rich!
It's been fun to noodle on, and I'm excited for when it's more feature rich!
More shots from London! Just some misc. things I got while out walking. Westminster Abbey, National Theater, Winchester Palace, and some street with nice lighting :D #photography
November 25, 2024 at 4:46 AM
More shots from London! Just some misc. things I got while out walking. Westminster Abbey, National Theater, Winchester Palace, and some street with nice lighting :D #photography
Here's Highgate Cemetery in London! A large portion of the cemetery looks like its residents get up and dance late at night, but then forget to close things up when they're done. It's a really quite a sight! #photography
November 18, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Here's Highgate Cemetery in London! A large portion of the cemetery looks like its residents get up and dance late at night, but then forget to close things up when they're done. It's a really quite a sight! #photography
A quick shot of the Westminster Cathedral (Not the Abbey!) I’ve never seen a cathedral made from brick before, this one had a really dark and warm sort of vibe to it!
November 10, 2024 at 8:03 PM
A quick shot of the Westminster Cathedral (Not the Abbey!) I’ve never seen a cathedral made from brick before, this one had a really dark and warm sort of vibe to it!
Whenever I travel, I like to pick up a “trophy” to remember the trip by. I just got back from London, where I got a silver denarius from 213 AD! Valid currency in London at the time.
A denarius was worth about a day’s wages, and this one features the bloodthirsty Roman emperor Caracalla! Neat!
A denarius was worth about a day’s wages, and this one features the bloodthirsty Roman emperor Caracalla! Neat!
November 10, 2024 at 3:30 AM
Whenever I travel, I like to pick up a “trophy” to remember the trip by. I just got back from London, where I got a silver denarius from 213 AD! Valid currency in London at the time.
A denarius was worth about a day’s wages, and this one features the bloodthirsty Roman emperor Caracalla! Neat!
A denarius was worth about a day’s wages, and this one features the bloodthirsty Roman emperor Caracalla! Neat!
StereoKit v0.3.8 is finally out, after a year of work, and quite a bit of life change! Lots of really fantastic features and improvements in here :)
I've attached builds of the StereoKitTest project to this release as well, so you can try out the demos!
github.com/StereoKit/St...
I've attached builds of the StereoKitTest project to this release as well, so you can try out the demos!
github.com/StereoKit/St...
September 27, 2023 at 3:36 AM
StereoKit v0.3.8 is finally out, after a year of work, and quite a bit of life change! Lots of really fantastic features and improvements in here :)
I've attached builds of the StereoKitTest project to this release as well, so you can try out the demos!
github.com/StereoKit/St...
I've attached builds of the StereoKitTest project to this release as well, so you can try out the demos!
github.com/StereoKit/St...
I'm still really enamored with vertex based lighting and the performance it provides, so I've actually revisited this concept in StereoKit, and I _did_ ship that! This one's in the form of an open source collection of code files for StereoKit: https://github.com/maluoi/SKLightBake
May 25, 2023 at 5:56 PM
I'm still really enamored with vertex based lighting and the performance it provides, so I've actually revisited this concept in StereoKit, and I _did_ ship that! This one's in the form of an open source collection of code files for StereoKit: https://github.com/maluoi/SKLightBake
Here's another plugin I worked on for a while, but never shipped! It was a vertex light baking tool, which I had built to help optimize a GearVR title I was working on. It was fast enough it could update in-editor live, or on game startup!
May 25, 2023 at 5:50 PM
Here's another plugin I worked on for a while, but never shipped! It was a vertex light baking tool, which I had built to help optimize a GearVR title I was working on. It was fast enough it could update in-editor live, or on game startup!
Here's an outline effect plugin I built for Unity and never shipped! I ultimately decided that I did _not_ want to do customer support for Unity shaders. It did however ship in Breach and Clear though :)
May 11, 2023 at 5:10 PM
Here's an outline effect plugin I built for Unity and never shipped! I ultimately decided that I did _not_ want to do customer support for Unity shaders. It did however ship in Breach and Clear though :)
Most of my pictures move, so I had to dig a little to find one that doesn't. Here's a project I'd love to revisit again someday, this was some visual experimentation for a VR arena shooter :)
May 11, 2023 at 5:01 PM
Most of my pictures move, so I had to dig a little to find one that doesn't. Here's a project I'd love to revisit again someday, this was some visual experimentation for a VR arena shooter :)