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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Crush a coliseum w/ your bare hands 🏟️ #WebGPU + #WebXR physics stress tests on Apple Vision Pro 12k bricks, 100 ragdolls, rope & cloth Based on @juretriglav.bsky.social's work on AVBD (rec'd by @codybennett.bsky.social). The scale is amazing + little-to-no clipping. Fun to play w/ on next gen h/w

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Enjoy a slice of hand-chopped physics jelly 🪼 Gel, water & sand simulation running on Apple Vision Pro #WebXR + #WebGPU via three.js Thinking about game mechanics w/ this stuff Try here - fwiw I've only tested on desktop & M5 AVP visionOS developer beta 27 jameskane05.github.io/kora-fire-th...

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Another hotfix from @cabanier.bsky.social & I've got three.js #WebGPU + #WebXR running on Apple Vision Pro M5 Testing w/ real-time voxel flame sim w/ compute shader solver based on @wetafxofficial.bsky.social's new SIGGRAPH paper M5 has the horsepower to do v cool stuff in XR w/ WebGPU 🔥 More soon

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Gorilla Tag @gorillatag.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_QQ... On repeat recently: Madvillain - Books of War - ft. RZA, Jeru The Damaja, Guru, Talib Kweli, DMX Such a smooth beat and slide guitar lick

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Free afternoon in SF before World Labs hack-a-thon tomorrow. Good buildings, beer and weather in this town. Very happy to be here

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Watch your six! Soon I'll launch STARSPEED: Zero-G Aerial Combat in partnership with WorldLabs.ai 🚀 Multiplayer & campaign inspired by Descent/DOOM w/ a gripping story & synthwave OST 🎹 Here's a peek at the making-of w/ SparkJS + three.js -- early access is days away!

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Jure Triglav @juretriglav.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

New post on how to do real-time diffuse global illumination using surfels and #WebGPU: juretriglav.si/surfel-based... #threejs

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

New game approved! It's such a banger. Cross-platform but will be killer in XR, single & multiplayer, building in public. Real announcement soon! In the pipe, five-by-five 🚀

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

My #WebXR + #WebGPU demo got picked up by 80 Level! More to come, especially as three.js adds support 80.lv/articles/esc...

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Interactive WebGPU Pool Demo With XR Support

Check out James C. Kane's project.

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cabanier.bsky.social @cabanier.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

@toji.dev I'm trying to hook up WebGPU on WebXR in three.js using my Galaxy XR. The first frame always comes in with a null XRFame. Is that a known issue? Also, the browser doesn't always show the immersive scene even though I'm producing frames.

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Idk, there are 20+ good fitness rhythm apps on Quest and even free via WebXR. Mechanics well-known and easy to copy. The hard and expensive part is music licensing. And as a longtime Supernatural user and fan, imo big hardware improvements (100g HMD max) are is still needed for wider audience reach

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Blast from the past to start the day. That the number one children's show for years on end was detective-themed is... interesting to me personally www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVVk...

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DefunctTV: The History of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

YouTube video by Defunctland

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

📻 Brazen brute bashes bank! Czar’s zealots embezzle zillions! Cops can't quell criminal caper! theshadowoftheczar.com is at large for @worldlabs.bsky.social launch! ‘Shadow’ is the jazz-infused film noir-style narrative game made for @bmildenhall.bsky.social and Dr. Fei-Fei Li's AI research team 🕵️

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

My new game launches this week Don't let it sneak up on you

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Scott Stein @scottstein.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Gaussian splats are the connecting thread everywhere. Meta doing room scans. Apple doing Personas and spatial scenes. Closing in on reality being scanned in

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

This was Ellington's first charting hit! And evidently was originally pronounced "toad-low" and referred to a dance, not a goodbye But I like the phonetics of "toodle-oo" better so let's stick w/ that courses.suchsweetthundermusic.com/ee12-east-st...

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12 - East St Louis Toodle-oo - Ellington Effect composition workshops

David Berger analyzes Duke Ellington's composition East St Louis Toodle-oo in detail.

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Shoutout to East St. Louis, giving y'all the ole "toodle-oo" for at least 100 years archive.org/details/07-d...

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I've always liked the device - best HMD display there is. I had one at my old workplace but lost access when I left. I will probably wait for a true form-factor successor to spend my own money, but M5 is serious horsepower... Confident I could have some fun with it

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

New game announcement soon! It'll be desktop/mobile-only at launch for a change, but of course I had to develop a mixed reality "stunt capture app" for it using WebXR 🤷 Check out that process along w/ a sneak peak of my next original title, and keep an eye out for more 🏃‍➡️↗️➡️↘️🛏️

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Sincerely doubt they have the organizational patience to make it successful at the scale they want. I bet they roll it up within a couple years. Everybody wants Roblox’s numbers but they don’t want to put in the decade-plus to build market share and platform

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

After two days at Meta Connect, where I tried on the new Meta Ray-Ban Display, I visited the Computer History Museum and saw relics like the first mouse and keyboard and the first web server. Just a few decades of steady, incremental progress separate these devices. Play the long game.

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Pretty cool to walk around the Saint Louis Zoo’s free 90-acre campus and see users and signs for the one-of-a-kind 3D web map with search and GPS navigation that I architected, built and sold to this client using open source web tech - check it out: map.stlzoo.org

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Amazing! I just went there yesterday for the first time. Thanks for your work on this!

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Scott Stein @scottstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Meta says browser use in headset is up 28%

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I'm heading to Meta Connect! Last year the game I directed was featured in the keynote and WebXR sessions. Will 'In Tirol' be recognized this year? Stay tuned, and let me know if you'll be in town!

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Cool to see WebGPU demos on iOS Safari without a flag! This is still beta but should ship widely next week. Considering Apple didn’t ship WebGL 2.0 until like 2021, this is great to see Last barrier to me using it in production is the WebXR-to-WebGPU bindings, which I believe is in proposal phase?

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Keiichi Matsuda @liquidcity.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

📡 We’re looking for a freelance mid-senior level Character Animator / Technical Artist to help bring a digital character to life across a series of VR prototypes, developed in Unity for Quest. Remote OK. Recommendations and signal boosts welcomed! #XRJobs liquidcity.notion.site/Character-An...

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Character Animator / Technical Artist (VR) - Freelance | Notion

Liquid City is a speculative design studio working at the intersection of AI, spatial computing and immersive media. We prototype future interfaces, virtual characters and intelligent environments, co...

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I actually love this b/c it’s only going to demonstrate that even with pro writing, a real production schedule and a legitimate Hollywood budget, this shit is still going to suck

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

This has been my feeling for a couple years: LLMs are at or near their ceiling for capabilities, and will not improve dramatically from here, for reasons technical, practical, legal and economic. Recent evidence: arxiv.org/abs/2507.19703

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The wall confronting large language models

We show that the scaling laws which determine the performance of large language models (LLMs) severely limit their ability to improve the uncertainty of their predictions. As a result, raising their r...

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m₂ @msub2.com · 03/09/2025

My game "Grappler's Gauntlet" is now live on @viverse.com! Use your grappling gun to pull yourself up to the top before anyone else can stop you! You can play now at worlds.viverse.com/QTrnrXw and join the Discord at discord.gg/ccWHZtBXpA.

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

My keyboard has a tiny LED screen to display gifs and other info and it is admittedly dumb but also makes me happy The overall look reminds me of my old DOS Tandy from the early 90’s, which is to say 🥵 www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZCMX4R...

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I'll be at Meta Connect in SF from Sept 16-20 talking #WebXR to anyone who'll listen, hope to see you there

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

📢 Meta published my guest piece on their developer blog! I wrote about making ‘In Tirol’ as a one-man band, including inspiration, script, art, score, voiceover, development and launch at GDC: developers.meta.com/horizon/blog...

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Go Behind the Scenes with James C. Kane to Explore the Road to ‘In Tirol’

Get an inside look at ‘In Tirol’ with Webby-winning developer James C. Kane as he shares his design and technical process for building the WebXR hit.

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Whereabouts are you now? Closer to London? I will always have a fond memory of Lewes thanks to you!

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Cool to see Vienna among the top cities playing In Tirol globally each week

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Monetization. They need an OS-level wallet that works in the browser - like how on Android/iOS you can purchase a product from Instagram within a webview in two clicks w/ a trusted interface. Vision Pro launched w/ this but has no users or content promo. Meta still has a pure gaming platform PoV

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

My Voices of VR interview is out! I spoke to @kentbye.com at @awexr.com about my game, WebXR broadly, and publishing on @viverse.com. I'm a huge fan of this podcast b/c of Kent's journalistic objectivity and ethics, but also his genuine enthusiasm and deep experience voicesofvr.com/1615-viverse...

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#1615: Viverse’s WebXR Publishing Strategy with James C. Kane & “In Tirol” Game – Voices of VR Podcast

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Kent Bye (Voices of VR) @kentbye.com · 03/08/2025

I published 41 interviews from 2018 to 2025 on the Voices of VR covering Augmented World Expo Past & Present. I cover XR & AI like a hyperobject over space & time through the modality of oral history, and this series is 24.5 hours long spanning lots of topics. See my cheat sheet with tags & metadata

List of interviews in a 41-episode series on AWE Past and Present.

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Bela Bohlender @belabohlender.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Github Repo: github.com/pmndrs/viverse Docs: pmndrs.github.io/viverse/ Super excited for this launch since it enables every threejs dev to get started with VIVERSE! Let's show them the power of the threejs community ❤️

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Bela Bohlender @belabohlender.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Introducing pmndrs/viverse and react-three/viverse 🎉 A Toolkit for building @threejs.org and React Three Fiber Apps for VIVERSE and beyond with only a few lines of code ⟁

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

It's just CapCut and a dream, @mattcool.tech, but thank you, I appreciate the encouragement!

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James Clifford Kane @jamesckane.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Hand-painted light-and-shadow alpha textures - I traced over real shadowmaps with Krita brushes on a pressure-sensitive tablet. Again, position and intensity were randomized to mimic flame light. Cheaper and stylized in line with my expressionist art direction

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