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Towneh @mr.town · 22/09/2026

Got the camera now I just need something to plug it in to @valvesoftware.com

Arcturus camera unboxed rear view with protective connector sleeve removed

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Towneh @mr.town · 09/09/2026

Spent the last few days cycling around Sparta in Wisconsin with the wife and in-laws. We finished a satisfying 50 mile ride from Bangor to the burnt out bridge outside Trempealeau. Now we’re heading north of Duluth in Minnesota to ride mountain bikes at Goosebury state park! 😅

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Towneh @mr.town · 24/08/2026

Duo tank crew action with the wife @captainc.at before the end of @thewardogs.bsky.social closed beta weekend! Very fun!

Ending scoreboard with top ranking shown!

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Towneh @mr.town · 05/08/2026

There’s at least 10,000 @basisvr.org demo clients connected in this screenshot. Peaked somewhere over 20,000.

Many default avatars shown in one BasisVR server instance.

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Towneh @mr.town · 01/08/2026

The 6am Saturday alarm is brutal but the payoff is worth it ☕️

Bicycle parked up outside a coffee shop with a flat white in the foreground

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Towneh @mr.town · 18/07/2026

30 miles in to the ride, it would be rude not to pull over and try the lemon drizzle cake.

Speedgate Farm’s coffee shop. Coffee and Cake, about to be devoured, in front of my bicycle.

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Towneh @mr.town · 04/07/2026

Just returned from an amazing few days of glorious weather in Brecon, Wales with @captainc.at

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Towneh @mr.town · 30/06/2026

@captainc.at and I went to the Isle of Wight yesterday for a bicycle tour! 🚲

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Towneh @mr.town · 16/06/2026

CEA-608 Closed Caption support now available in the @basisvr.org Media Player (along with native RTMP playback!)

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Towneh @mr.town · 13/06/2026

Two-thirds around my local countryside and had to stop in at Speedgate stables cafe for refuelling! 🚴‍♀️

With bike parked up outside a countryside cafe with cake and coffee

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Towneh @mr.town · 13/06/2026

MPEG TS over RIST transport with 7.1 multi-channel PCM audio is now supported in the most recent Developer branch of @basisvr.org

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Towneh @mr.town · 03/06/2026

Animators on avatars in @basisvr.org can be consigned to the history books. Authored motion provides a mechanism for moving non humanoid rigged transforms that works alongside physics and can scale across thousands of users. docs.basisvr.org/en/docs/avat...

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Towneh @mr.town · 25/05/2026

In New York city this week, starting off a little spooky!

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Towneh @mr.town · 25/05/2026

Drop any existing Animation Clip, that stores complex key frames rotations for bone chains, in to the converter to create a BasisMotionClip.

New editor window for creating BasisMotionClips

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Towneh @mr.town · 25/05/2026

Hoping to drop a couple of big features for @basisvr.org soon… 1) Tracker puck/chip support for Props 2) Creating an optimised motion driver that replaces Animators for cosmetic/secondary movements (e.g. ear twitching, tail wagging). Huge frame-time savings at 1000 CCU.

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Towneh @mr.town · 23/05/2026

"♫ Pull down your pants and suffocate the ants in an English country garrr-den ♫"

Superb conditions for cycling today. My road bike parked up in front of a gate, in the shade, whilst a tree and rolling fields provide a backdrop.

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Towneh @mr.town · 16/05/2026

The sun was out this morning so it was a great opportunity to break in the new bike! The larger 40c Gravel King semi-slick tyres managed to deal with the North Downs potholes quite well.

Gloria Cyling All-Road titanium frame
Zipp carbon wheels & finishing kit
SRAM Force AXS XPLR E1 1x13 groupset

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Towneh @mr.town · 16/05/2026

Unfortunately I am unable to!

Screenshot of starting a new chat but showing the user cannot be messaged

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Towneh @mr.town · 08/05/2026

The cool thing about FOSS VR is that if you need to replicate simple machines, such as dials, clocks, levers or gears, you can build the interaction surfaces yourself. @basisvr.org

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Towneh @mr.town · 02/05/2026

The Caad needs some TLC.

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Towneh @mr.town · 02/05/2026

It’s been a while since I was last here at one of the world’s oldest cycling tracks. 🚴‍♂️

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Towneh @mr.town · 25/04/2026

Consider this a soft release! Realtime lighting from video render textures in URP 17 (Unity 6.0+). github.com/towneh/Video...

Unity video player playing Big Buck Bunny with the VideoAreaLight system casting reflections on to thee surrounding Lit materials.

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Towneh @mr.town · 25/04/2026

I don’t neeeeeeeeeed it… 😳

Gloria Cycling All-Road Titanium using SRAM Force XPLR E1 group-set and Zipp 303 carbon wheels + SL finishing kit.

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Towneh @mr.town · 11/04/2026

The latest @basisvr.org developer branch builds across so many OS platforms that I’m starting to lose track!

Basis built simultaneously on Win x64 and OSX ARM64, prior to testing Android ARM64!

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Towneh @mr.town · 05/04/2026

We were lucky to have amazing weather to finish a late season ski trip in Colorado! Thankfully there was just about enough remaining snow across Arapahoe Basin, Keystone and Copper Mountain to keep the runs interesting. Next time I’ll try to get some fitness in beforehand 👀

Skiing on top of Copper Mountain in Colorado

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Towneh @mr.town · 16/03/2026

The best coffee in New York City.

Flat White with Oat milk at Dae Day Coffee in NYC

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Towneh @mr.town · 15/03/2026

Back to New York City for a week!

View from the Virgin Atlantic Lounge at Heathrow

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Towneh @mr.town · 09/02/2026

So I heard we're heading back to IRC?

Picture of an miRC client connected to the basshunter.se channel on Quakenet. Original pic from Basshunter.

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Towneh @mr.town · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year from London! 🚀🧨🎆

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Towneh @mr.town · 11/12/2025

Breakfast 40 floors up with my team at Duck & Waffle in the City of London

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Towneh @mr.town · 29/11/2025

Well it turned out to be a fairly terrible experience as usual with Kickstarters. Been saying this the last 30 mins. Also no option to buy multiple kits @fluxpose.com ?

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Towneh @mr.town · 28/11/2025

Attempting to work out what is needed for couples VR full body tracking before the @fluxpose.com kickstarter kicks off. I had to draw a diagram for myself in the end. 👀

MS Paint level diagram of 2x PCs and 3x FluxPose kits

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Towneh @mr.town · 15/11/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7q2... through to 13:32 that they are already considering users additional needs for extensibility from the base version is a powerful statement to me, as a face tracking & full body tracking enthusiast, that I should strongly consider this for my next HMD.

Edited picture from the Valve Frame product website with the face strap module highlighted, which represents the area I'm keen to see aftermarket solutions for mounting face tracking cameras, FluxPose trackers & premium audio speakers/cups, as some examples.

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Towneh @mr.town · 12/11/2025

For anyone grumbling about the @valvesoftware.com Frame controllers using AA batteries, know that these do exist.

USB-C rechargable AA form-factor batteries

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Towneh @mr.town · 12/11/2025

Seeing Joy Lyons talk about the modular design of the @valvesoftware.com Frame, it makes you think of the possibilities from bedroom 3d printing up to premium after-market options. These could provide not only a more fuller audio solution, but also a sturdy mount position for face tracking cameras.

Still screencap from the Tested interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7q2CS8HDHU)

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Towneh @mr.town · 06/11/2025

github.com/VirtualBrigh... video player running the @vrcdn.live demo stream flawlessly in a @basisvr.org project in Unity 6000.2.10f1 😘

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Towneh @mr.town · 28/09/2025

So @basisvr.org now has functional Eye and Face Tracking courtesy of @just.hai-vr.dev which required only adding a single component to the Avatar in the Unity editor and hitting a button.

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Towneh @mr.town · 15/08/2025

Visiting the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park was very cool! Learned about WW2 code breaking, saw the world’s first digital computer Colossus and remembered how old I was when I saw my first PC and mobile phone on display. 😅

The bombe counting machine, to decipher the code of the day for the Enigma coded messages

Colossus the worlds first large-scale digital computer built at the end of WW2

Assorted personal computers from the 70s and 80s

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Towneh @mr.town · 15/08/2025

I agree about activations, probably more insightful.

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Towneh @mr.town · 13/08/2025

Experimenting streaming @vrcdn.live with github.com/VirtualBrigh... by @stopand.run in the @basisvr.org framework. Seems good!

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Towneh @mr.town · 11/08/2025

This is what 545 concurrent users looks like in @basisvr.org

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Towneh @mr.town · 10/08/2025

Yesterday I took a train and escaped to the countryside for the afternoon to enjoy food and festivities with friends and family!

Etchingham train station exits to Kent countryside

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Towneh @mr.town · 09/08/2025

Quick reminder about the @basisvr.org load test that is taking place tomorrow (Sun 3rd August 22:00 UTC+0) with the goal to break the previous record of 294 concurrent users! Further details here discord.com/events/12392... Please DM Dooly on Discord for Steam keys to the demo client.

Scenic view of the default Basis Demo world with a video player running in the corner

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Towneh @mr.town · 06/08/2025

Age verification discovery is terrible, unless you google search for it to find the link or don't know about it. Otherwise the process with Persona was quick and straight-forward.

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Towneh @mr.town · 06/07/2025

The last two weeks have been amazing! Getting married to the love of my life @captainc.at, immersing ourselves in Minneapolis Pride and hitting the cycling routes around Lake Minnetonka ❤️

Married and freshly adorned with gold rings

Pride parade at Hennepin Avenue and then pictured above is the festival in Loring Park

Fresh asphalt on McGinty Road bringing out the cyclists

View from a bridge crossing Lake Minnetonka

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Towneh @mr.town · 04/07/2025

St Louis Park MN pregaming their July 4th celebrations on the evening of the 3rd! 👀

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Towneh @mr.town · 25/06/2025

Counter troll move: Mexico renames Gulf of California to Gulf of Mexico

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