Over 220.000 lasers have been tripped since Laser Dance's release last week!

Thank you all for playing 🙌

Laser Dance is just around the corner🕺

Make sure to catch the Early Access release on Meta Quest 3/3s tomorrow!

👉https://bit.ly/3W0huQf

Are you a creator actively making XR content, or know someone who is?

Want to try out Laser Dance before its early access release on Nov 6th?

Shoot me a DM or contact me at thomas@laserdancegame.com!

Cubism is a launch title on Galaxy XR! 🎉

Here's what the game looks like on device, playing in MR with hand tracking.

Get it on Google Play here ➡️ bit.ly/49dLaA6

soon you can.

(you'll need to put Thé à la Menthe on yourself though)
@laserdancegame.bsky.social #metaquest

I'll be attending #Gamescom this Wednesday for one day only!

Shoot me a message if you want to chat about @laserdancegame.bsky.social, @cubismvr.bsky.social or Mixed Reality development in general!

If you ever wondered if your room is big enough to play @laserdancegame.bsky.social, here it is running in a tiny hotel room in Brighton.

(Also I'll be at #DevelopBrighton tomorrow and Thursday! Shoot me a message if you want to talk Laser Dance or MR dev)

Thanks!

A big inspiration for making this game was struggling to find enough space to play roomscale games on the HTC Vive back in 2016. The nice thing with MR is games can try and adapt to the space instead :)

(e.g. here's a recent clip of me testing the game in a small hotel room in the UK)

Hey #PitchYaGame 👋

I'm making LASER DANCE - a game built from the ground up for Mixed Reality to turn any room of your house into a laser obstacle course!

It's coming to early access later this fall, but you can already wishlist it here 👉 bit.ly/3W0huQf

For more complex shots with moving patterns, we'd draw patterns on the floor rather than tracing the laser.
For example, for this shot we just drew the grid the lasers traced on the floor.

8/9

The solution we found was to run OpenBrush in the player's headset, and have them draw spatial stage markers for the laser pattern they'd be about to traverse.

Here's me and @nixer87.bsky.social tracing out the main lasers and the button for the opening shot.

6/9

The challenge we still needed to solve was how to choreograph the player, as they can't actually see the game in their headset.

Early on I tested little pieces of tape on the floor, like in this test shot - but this wasn't versatile enough for more complex laser patterns.

5/9

The footage we shot for this video is different in that we had an actual player in the footage.

The camera runs the game, and the "player" just wears a quest in passthrough. Because of dynamic occlusion, the "player" appears between the lasers without the need for any additional compositing.

4/9

A lot of R&D and experimentation preceded this video, and I think we finally figured out the workflow for quickly recording smooth "3rd person" MR footage.

Before anything, a huge shout out to @nixer87.bsky.social and @xanderbestondal.bsky.social for helping me with the shoot!

2/9

Laser Dance is coming to ✨Early Access✨ later this fall!

More details to follow soon, but be sure to wishlist the game on Meta Quest in the meantime 🙌

➡️ bit.ly/3W0huQf