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Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

I'm deleting this account in a few days. I haven't used it for a while, and at this point I don't want to have my name or data associated with what this place has become.

You can find links to my profiles on other social media sites at my home page, https://toji.dev

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Brandon Jones - Graphics and XR on the web

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Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

A quick #WebGPU PSA: the async method adapter.requestAdapterInfo() is being replaced with the attribute http://adapter.info. You can try it now in Chrome Canary!

Read more about the reasoning behind this change in this Mastodon thread:

https://mastodon.social/@tojiro/112570642063796608

Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

I don't post here any more, but today BlueSky is opening up to anyone who wants an account, no invite needed. You can follow me there if you'd like! https://bsky.app/profile/tojiro.bsky.social

Though I'm probably most active on Mastodon.
https://mastodon.social/@tojiro

Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive (@tojiro.bsky.social)

This is an archive of my Twitter posts, preserved here after I delete my Twitter account. I will not be posting new content here, for that you'll want to follow my main account: @toji.dev

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Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

Happy (US) Thanksgiving, y'all! I prepared a tasty article all about using WebGPU Render Bundles, just for you! https://toji.dev/webgpu-best-practices/render-bundles

WebGPU Render Bundle best practices

Brandon Jones - Graphics and XR on the web

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Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

Had the privilege of giving another lecture on WebGPU to the University of Pennsylvania CIS 565 program again this year. Had to do it remotely this time, but that at least made for better audio capture.
https://youtu.be/41pC1MLMVdA

Introduction to WebGPU - CIS 565 GPU Programming Fall 2023

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Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

WebGPU support in Unity is now in early access! https://forum.unity.com/threads/early-access-to-the-new-webgpu-backend-in-unity-2023-3.1516621/

Early access to the new WebGPU backend

Greetings from the Unity Graphics team. We’re excited to announce that starting with Unity 2023.3, the Unity Web Player now provides experimental support for the new WebGPU graphics API. The introduction of support for the new WebGPU API marks a significant milestone for web-based graphics acceleration, and paves the way for unprecedented leaps in graphics rendering fidelity for Unity web applications. In this post, we share some useful information on how to enable WebGPU, along with vario...

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Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

Landed the change that will enable WebGPU on the first batch of Android devices today! Had one false start but I think this one will stick.

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/5005063

Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

Gonna beg @Sketchfab once again to give us a way to filter photoscans. I think they're great, and it's cool to see so many real-world objects captured like that! Definitely think they have a place on the site. But if I'm looking for game-ready assets they're just clutter.

Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

This flew under my radar at the time of release because I didn't have a Quest Pro, but if you recently picked up a Quest 3 you owe it to yourself to try this delightful and very well made #WebXR, mixed reality experience! http://spatialfusion.io

Spatial Fusion is Mixed Reality for the Web

A Mixed Reality WebXR technology showcase designed in collaboration between Meta, and PHORIA and LUSION.

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Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

Oh, wow! I had no idea this was on its way. I'll try and get some passthrough comparison shots with the Quest 3 up on my Mastodon soon. #LynxR1 #WebXR

Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

Question for my XR peeps: Have you encountered any apps which use hand gesture-based teleportation for movement in a way that feels really good and doesn't interfere with other actions?

Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

I haven't been paying any attention to Twitter lately. But I hear there's More Drama recently, so here's my occasional reminder that Mastodon is a great alternative, and I also have some Bluesky invites if you're interested.

https://mastodon.social/@tojiro

Brandon Jones (@[email protected])

1.97K Posts, 121 Following, 1.01K Followers · WebGPU/WebXR dev @ Google "The downfall of modern civilization." - Joystiq

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Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

Just published version 1.0.14 of the webxr-input-profiles assets repo, which includes rigged controller meshes for the Quest Touch Plus and YVR Touch controllers! See them live at https://immersive-web.github.io/webxr-input-profiles/packages/viewer/dist/

Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

Posted some Quest 3 demo impressions on Mastodon.

https://mastodon.social/@tojiro/111139830840983731

Brandon Jones (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image After a *very* long wait, got to try one fairly brief Quest 3 demo, but it was a good one! Multiplayer title called "Drone Rage" which was a Mixed Reality wave shooter.

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Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

Apple has been a big proponent of USD(Z) for realtime models, including on the web via the <model> tag proposal. But it's worth mentioning that when they needed a high-quality, material-accurate, realtime model of the iPhone 15 for their site, they used glTF to deliver it. 😉

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Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

If you're looking to migrate off this site I recommend Mastodon, but if BlueSky sounds like it's more your speed I have a couple of invites for mutuals.

Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

"Average US President is indicted on 2 felony counts" factoid is actually just statistical error. Average President is indicted 0 times. Indictments Don, who lives in Florida and was indicted on 91 felony counts, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

Added a page to the #WebGPU samples demonstrating use in a web worker. (Spoiler alert: It's basically the same as WebGPU on the main thread, with a couple of extra postMessage() calls) https://webgpu.github.io/webgpu-samples/samples/worker

Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

I managed to snag a Bluesky invite, so you can find me over there at https://bsky.app/profile/tojiro.bsky.social if you'd like! I still prefer Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/@tojiro) I think, but I get why it doesn't click for some people.

Anywhere is better than this sinking ship, though.

Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive (@tojiro.bsky.social)

This is an archive of my Twitter posts, preserved here after I delete my Twitter account. I will not be posting new content here, for that you'll want to follow my main account: @toji.dev

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Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

https://twitter.com/LunaFoxgirlVT/status/1682528260872101888 https://t.co/hsupeakLq3

Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

Wrote a new #WebGPU doc, this time covering patterns for handling vertex data processing in compute shaders (ie: for compute skinning).

https://toji.dev/webgpu-best-practices/compute-vertex-data

Using WebGPU Compute Shaders with Vertex Data

Brandon Jones - Graphics and XR on the web

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Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

Great thread about rendering considerations on low-end mobile devices vs. newer desktop GPUs! A lot of this will be applicable to WebGPU when it becomes generally available on mobile. https://twitter.com/SebAaltonen/status/1680496009783263233

Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

Friendly reminder: I'm at @[email protected], just in case you're hitting your daily ration of Twitter.

Brandon Jones, Twitter Archive @tojiro.bsky.social · Nov 21

At this point Will's excellent WebGPU/glTF series and my own post make great companion pieces. He covers all of the parsing/setup details to get the model on screen but points out that the render method isn't particularly efficient. 1/2 https://twitter.com/_wusher/status/1672715643114901504