James Clifford Kane
@jamesckane.bsky.social
https://jamesckane.com
Technical & creative director, developer, designer & audio for Webby winning #WebXR titles Escape Artist (https://esc.art), In Tirol (https://intirol.game), Above Par Mini-Golf.
New game out now: https://theshadowoftheczar.com
Technical & creative director, developer, designer & audio for Webby winning #WebXR titles Escape Artist (https://esc.art), In Tirol (https://intirol.game), Above Par Mini-Golf.
New game out now: https://theshadowoftheczar.com
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New post on how to do real-time diffuse global illumination using surfels and #WebGPU: juretriglav.si/surfel-based... #threejs
January 29, 2026 at 12:22 PM
New post on how to do real-time diffuse global illumination using surfels and #WebGPU: juretriglav.si/surfel-based... #threejs
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 🚀
January 29, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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 🚀
My #WebXR + #WebGPU demo got picked up by 80 Level! More to come, especially as three.js adds support
80.lv/articles/esc...
80.lv/articles/esc...
Interactive WebGPU Pool Demo With XR Support
Check out James C. Kane's project.
80.lv
January 28, 2026 at 8:35 PM
My #WebXR + #WebGPU demo got picked up by 80 Level! More to come, especially as three.js adds support
80.lv/articles/esc...
80.lv/articles/esc...
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@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.
Also, the browser doesn't always show the immersive scene even though I'm producing frames.
January 26, 2026 at 11:53 PM
@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.
Also, the browser doesn't always show the immersive scene even though I'm producing frames.
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVVk...
DefunctTV: The History of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
YouTube video by Defunctland
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November 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVVk...
📻 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 🕵️
‘Shadow’ is the jazz-infused film noir-style narrative game made for @bmildenhall.bsky.social and Dr. Fei-Fei Li's AI research team 🕵️
November 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
📻 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 🕵️
‘Shadow’ is the jazz-infused film noir-style narrative game made for @bmildenhall.bsky.social and Dr. Fei-Fei Li's AI research team 🕵️
My new game launches this week
Don't let it sneak up on you
Don't let it sneak up on you
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
My new game launches this week
Don't let it sneak up on you
Don't let it sneak up on you
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Gaussian splats are the connecting thread everywhere. Meta doing room scans. Apple doing Personas and spatial scenes. Closing in on reality being scanned in
New from me: I talked to Apple about Personas, and it makes me think once again about how ahead they are with telepresence. All we need now are more ways to access it. www.cnet.com/tech/apple-t...
Apple Vision Pro's Persona VR Avatars Are Evolving
Apple's Vision team met me inside the VR headset to chat about how unique telepresence Personas have evolved and where they're going.
www.cnet.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Gaussian splats are the connecting thread everywhere. Meta doing room scans. Apple doing Personas and spatial scenes. Closing in on reality being scanned in
Shoutout to East St. Louis, giving y'all the ole "toodle-oo" for at least 100 years
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archive.org/details/07-d...
archive.org
October 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Shoutout to East St. Louis, giving y'all the ole "toodle-oo" for at least 100 years
archive.org/details/07-d...
archive.org/details/07-d...
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
🏃➡️↗️➡️↘️🛏️
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
🏃➡️↗️➡️↘️🛏️
October 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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
🏃➡️↗️➡️↘️🛏️
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
🏃➡️↗️➡️↘️🛏️
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.
September 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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.
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
September 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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
Reposted by James Clifford Kane
Meta says browser use in headset is up 28%
September 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Meta says browser use in headset is up 28%
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!
September 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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!
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?
Last barrier to me using it in production is the WebXR-to-WebGPU bindings, which I believe is in proposal phase?
September 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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?
Last barrier to me using it in production is the WebXR-to-WebGPU bindings, which I believe is in proposal phase?
Reposted by James Clifford Kane
📡 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...
#XRJobs
liquidcity.notion.site/Character-An...
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...
liquidcity.notion.site
September 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
📡 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...
#XRJobs
liquidcity.notion.site/Character-An...
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
OpenAI confirms they're helping make an AI-generated movie called 'Critterz'
• Goal is to finish production in 9 months
• Budget is ~$30M
• Plan is to debut the film at Canne
• 'Paddington 3' writers penned the script
• Art will be fed into Chat GPT 5 and other image models
(via WSJ)
• Goal is to finish production in 9 months
• Budget is ~$30M
• Plan is to debut the film at Canne
• 'Paddington 3' writers penned the script
• Art will be fed into Chat GPT 5 and other image models
(via WSJ)
September 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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
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
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...
arxiv.org
September 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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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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.
September 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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.
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...
The overall look reminds me of my old DOS Tandy from the early 90’s, which is to say 🥵 www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZCMX4R...
September 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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...
The overall look reminds me of my old DOS Tandy from the early 90’s, which is to say 🥵 www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZCMX4R...
I'll be at Meta Connect in SF from Sept 16-20 talking #WebXR to anyone who'll listen, hope to see you there
📢 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...
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.
developers.meta.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I'll be at Meta Connect in SF from Sept 16-20 talking #WebXR to anyone who'll listen, hope to see you there
📢 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...
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.
developers.meta.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
📢 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...
Cool to see Vienna among the top cities playing In Tirol globally each week
August 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Cool to see Vienna among the top cities playing In Tirol globally each week