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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You can see the foveated rendering better on a thin light~

JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Experimenting with a circular froxel grid. Cone? Does it perform any differently? No, not really. Why? For science... and built-in fixed foveated rendering... and I suppose it breaks up the aliased edges a bit differently... 🤔

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Made some knobs recently too. Got fed up with sliders. They can control any arbitrary float, or material property, any range. Free rotate or add end stops, you can link them together, synced or local. You can drag desktop or mobile like a slider, mouse wheel on desktop, or grab and twist in VR.

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Haven't posted here much recently, but I've been futzing with a very lightweight froxel-based volumetric fog for VRChat. You CAN use your hands and feet - the cube-onna-stick is only required for Clientsim. @sim.red will be releasing their own version... but I may still use mine in one of my worlds~

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Have been attempting to translate some of the old Amiga cracktro effects int o GLSL. The pallete swapping bounce ball and sinewave text which displays as many phrases as you like, baked into a texture file and font sheet. Scanlines, CRT curve. Works in VRChat too of course, I have it on my shirt~ ¦D

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Picked up one of these little Waveshare S3 Audio Board thingers. Works suprisingly well! Runs microWakeWord for instant responses, 2 mics, 2" speaker is nothing special, 7 RGB LED light ring looks fine. I'm using it with Nabu Casa and Gemini here, but you can run it entirely offline too. Yeah. Neat!

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

British Gas are running a campaign at the moment, and have ads at my local tube station. It features a pair of hairy blue balls. Now, obvious jokes aside.. they have to be the absolute barest minimum effort character designs I've ever seen since Fury of the Furries released in 1993. THEY had mouths.

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

It might sound petty, but... Are McDonald's so completely detached from reality now that they don't know what food looks like any more? That's - I suppose - a sad looking pork burger. This is what a sausage sandwich looks like and is about the same price from a normal café.

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I gots me one of those 3D printed segmented floppy otters~ ¦D

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

In another episode of "Why are you like this?" Had some old potatoes in the cupboard, so threw them into a flowerbed thinking they'd decompose. Well, they grew instead. Left them until they started looking a bit sad, then dug them up. And made tiny tater salad! They were actually delicious~ 😂

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Oh wow~ The #CatMansion had a new guest last night! 🦡

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Using Bakery realtime preview by @guycalledfrank.bsky.social to check area lights... to be baked into volumes for Light Volumes by @sim.red ... to THEN be used to provide the walls, fog and avatars in #VRChat with realtime light information from the screen. The FUTURE baby~ ¦D

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

In todays episode of "Why are you like this?": After throwing corner shop bird seed into a garden planter for the birds, it somehow grew into wheat. Never one to miss an oppurtunity, Jay decides he's going to make pancakes with it. As so - with impromptu minor blood sacrifice - it became so. ¦9

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Todays project: Convert dead GH guitar into an ESP32 bluetooth gamepad to play Clone Hero. - Got 5 buttons, strum up/down, select, start working - Dpad, LEDs and whammy wired up, but not added yet An 18650 battery pack for power. I'll put that inside with a switch sometime. It works great too! ¦D

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Google AI overviews also tells you how to disable Google AI overviews~ 😂

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Yeah, that's how I've been trying it. I've dropped the fog samples and step size down... obvs hardware plays a big role, but it's still only getting 1/3 of the FPS than without in VRC. Same world, left w/o LV and fog, right image is with both. I got ~50fps with VRSL meshes and projectors.

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

The latest pre-release of VRChat Light Volumes now includes analytical (per pixel) lights, for improved spotlights! They look soooo much better~ ¦D

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

VRChat Light Volumes by @sim.red go hard as club lighting. Nice and lightweight too~ ¦D

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Got some good 😺 #CatMansion action last night! A curious Foxo visit... then some SexyRaccoon stick-kicking action... and then FatAngry swung by to use the facilities in the morning~ ¦3

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

When you realise that the MC Escher "Hand with Reflecting Sphere" is basically just a matcap... You HAVE to try it, right? 😂 #Blender3D

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I took the Groove Armada bunny out for a spin too. It's so fucking cursed~ 😂 #VRCLightVolumes #VRChat

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Threw @sim.red light volume data onto a super basic particle shader as a test. Very noice~ ¦3

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I'm doodling out the Groove Armada bunny as a bit of modelling practice. I'm very rusty~ I'll give out the model for free and throw up a #VRChat public when it's done too. Maybe we can get an army of them dancing at #Furality? ¦3

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

UK mobile data is FAR too saturated. I can barely pull 10Kbs these days. I'm pretty sure I got faster internet from a 56k modem over 20 years ago~ ¬_¬

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

OK, right... I may be a bit 3 sheets to the wind right now, BUT... I just got a new media PC remote today, and I'm testing it out. I tried to type the word "smallpox" and... realised that I couldn't?? I could NOT for the fucking life of me figure out how to type that word on this keyboard;

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Whaaaat... What games are YOU playing? I think they look great! ¦O

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Aaaaa, @senjicat.bsky.social printed and hand painted my ottr and I love it! 🤩 I've always wanted a model... but never got the opportunity to make it happen. Thank youuuu~ ¦D

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Hmm... what kind of cat is this? 🤔 #CatMansion

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

We got our first fox last night at the #CatMansion Pretty big one too! Just curious for now, but he's welcome to visit more~ ¦D

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

A couple of better photos of the #CatMansion cats: Angry grey tank - which we've taken to calling Cheeseburger as an explanation for his size... and the little friendly black one we're calling Kuro-kun, who just wants to come in.

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This little black one is a regular at #CatMansion. He's SUPER friendly, and will come running to greet us. He REALLY wants to come into the house too, and will sit at the window staring at us.

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This is raccoon tailed socks. Visits the #CatMansion occasionally, wears thigh-high socks and has a weird raccoon tail.

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This is angry grey tank. He's a regular at #CatMansion, but he's very beat up and hissy. Probably a cat mob boss.

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

When I moved house I acquired a greenhouse which I wasn't using. Noticed a lot of local cats passing through the garden too. I have lots of cat furniture no longer being used, so... I set up a cat mansion! Warmth, food, beds and scratching posts for the kitties to hang out~ (plus motion webcam) ¦D

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Was reminiscing about old programmer humour, sparked on by the reason Git is called Git. Lamenting that silly crass humour has no place in the workplace anymore. It suddenly put me in mind of an asset management solution I was developing some time ago originally named TITS, but then later TIP. ¦D

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

From a work Slack channel... H-how do people NOT know how static electricity works in 2025? Do they not teach this stuff in schools anymore? Fucking... HAND MOISTURISER?? 🙄

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JayOttr @jayottr.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Perfect use-case for needing an ultrawide monitor; Making visemes for my wudwud~ ¦D Say EEEEEEEEEEEEE~~ 😬😬😬

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