Software Architect, XR @unity, formerly @TheWaveXR, @warnerbros & @NBCUniversal · interactive entertainment & geospatial AR

Joined December 2010
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9 Oct 2024
My Unite talk is live! It covers: - The latest XR features in Unity 6 - async/await - New package: XR Composition Layers - VR Multiplayer Template - Polyspatial 2 Link in 🧵
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Andy Biar retweeted
Just announced at Unity’s Unite 2025 show in Barcelona: Unity has built an amazing new networking protocol enabling Unity games to come into Fortnite next year. This will enable an incredible variety of games to reach a new audience in new ways!
19 Nov 2025
UNITY GAMES WILL BE COMPATIBLE INSIDE FORTNITE IN 2026
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I don’t talk a lot about Unity here, but I remain on the board and as a major shareholder in my old baby, now turned a young adult. It puts a big smile on my face to be able to announce a partnership with my old frenemies up in Raleigh 🥰 CC @TimSweeneyEpic
19 Nov 2025
Unity 🤝 Epic Games Developers around the world will be able to bring their games to @Fortnite while Unity’s cross-platform commerce platform is coming to @UnrealEngine soon. When ecosystems are open, everyone wins!
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16 Oct 2025
Most Republicans are good people. Most Democrats are good people. The White House says outrageous things to make you hate your neighbor. Your neighbor isn’t the problem. The White House is.
16 Oct 2025
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
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18 Aug 2025
Release day! I've been working on Unity support for the new OpenXR Spatial Entities extensions, and today we shipped a public native API in OpenXR Plug-in 1.16.0-pre.1: docs.unity3d.com/Packages/co… This API is a pure C# port of the OpenXR spec, currently limited to spatial entities.

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18 Aug 2025
If you are an OpenXR app developer working in Unity and you want the lowest-level control, this API will save you a lot of time otherwise spent on C# interop.
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18 Aug 2025
Unity will also depend on this native API for our own internal products, including future AR Foundation support for spatial entities.
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This is UNACCEPTABLE AND INSANE.
Effective immediately, all individuals applying for an F, M, or J nonimmigrant visa are requested to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media accounts to ‘public’ to facilitate vetting necessary to establish their identity and admissibility to the United States under U.S. law.
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Andy Biar retweeted
BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)
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13 Jun 2025
This week Khronos released the OpenXR Spatial Entities extensions, a new cross-vendor standard for mixed reality app development. khronos.org/blog/openxr-spat… The implications for AR Foundation are massive, and I'm excited to lead Unity's integration of the new standard.
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This is an absolute *must read* opinion from Judge Wilkinson on the Fourth Circuit - a very conservative judge - in the Abrego Garcia case. storage.courtlistener.com/re…

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16 Apr 2025
Recently I was targeted by an extremely sophisticated phishing attack, and I want to highlight it here. It exploits a vulnerability in Google's infrastructure, and given their refusal to fix it, we're likely to see it a lot more. Here's the email I got:
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15 Apr 2025
I think today was an inflection point - maybe small, but real. The President, having launched a global trade war, feted in the Oval Office a Central American dictator who runs a mega-prison known for starvation and torture - a prison to which our government has, by its own admission, sent at least one person "in error." They disappeared a man without a single criminal charge who's lived and worked here for 15 years - who was alleged to be a member of a gang based in a state he never lived by one anonymous informant. No other evidence. No trial. No conviction. Nothing but a legal order that he not be deported to El Salvador, where he's now serving a life sentence. The Supreme Court just ruled, without any noted dissent, that the government must facilitate the man's release. But Trump and his dictator friend said no. They laughed. They mocked the journalist who asked whether they'd abide by the Court's order. The Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the White House Deputy Chief all lied about the facts of the case. Then the President repeated his proposal to send American citizens to the dictator's prison, and asked him to build five more. The same day we found out that the government knowingly disappeared a PhD student for nothing but an op-ed, a man's 19-year old son who agents admitted was the wrong kid, and a visa-holding Russian scientist at Harvard who forgot to declare frog embryos at the border. But: it's all breaking through. It's getting more coverage. More people are paying attention. More elected Democrats are speaking up. More conservative pundits and legal scholars are speaking up. Even Joe Rogan thinks it's bullshit. Now we have to keep pushing. This is much bigger than immigration or deportation policy - this is about whether we live in a free country or a police state. It's the whole ballgame.
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12 Mar 2025
Last plug for the Unity XR GDC talk! Because Unity is sponsoring the talk, anyone with an Expo pass can attend, which is rad! Tuesday 1:20pm schedule.gdconf.com/session/…

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10 Mar 2025
I will also be at Unity XR Developer Night! This is actually my first GDC, so I'm looking forward to hanging out!
If you'll be at #GDC this year and are working in #XR be sure to come to the XR developer night hosted by @unitygames! It's Tuesday from 6pm-9pm. More details and registration here: unityxrdevelopernightgdc2025… I'll be there along with other colleagues!
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6 Mar 2025
Green: I have the best health care in the world. There are other people who have less than I have. I would have them have what I have. But I surely would not stand by and see them lose what little they do have.
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I'm excited to share I'll be giving a talk at #GDC2025 this year with @andybiar on cross-platform Mixed Reality! Going to be a bit more technical, talking about OpenXR, Meta Quest, AndroidXR and Apple Vision Pro More info on @unitygames #GDC stuff here: unity.com/events/gdc
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4 Mar 2025
First Best Animated Feature Film built in free open source software? Regardless, congrats to Flow and everyone who contributed!
3 Mar 2025
Congratulations to @gintszilbalodis and the entire Flow film crew for the Academy Award win! Flow is the manifestation of Blender’s mission, where a small independent team is able to create a story that moves audiences worldwide. Thank you for the shout out! 🧡 #b3d
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8 Jan 2025
So this is later than expected, but we shipped a pre-release of Unity OpenXR: Meta that includes support for Meta Quest Link: docs.unity3d.com/Packages/co… If you are an AR Foundation dev on Unity 6, huge news! We're finalizing some occlusion work before we ship the final 2.1.0.

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