Hello Everyone! 👋👓 📢 Today, I am very excited to announce a new chapter in my career. I’ve made the big decision to join Meta as a Developer Advocate 🎉 to support developers and products as well, all in an effort to help build the future of computing. Many of you know that I’ve been creating YouTube content specifically for XR over the last 5 years. For the first 3 years, it was a side hobby, but then I quit my developer job to focus 100% of my time on YouTube. I also launched Learn XR, where I’ve taught and continue to teach people around the world about VR and AR development. Honestly, it’s been a dream come true, and that part of my life isn’t changing. With my acceptance of the position at Meta, you'll see me more at events and on Meta-owned channels, continuing to support you in building for XR and beyond. 💡𝘿𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙄’𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙏𝙪𝙗𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩? Absolutely not. I’ll keep creating content for years to come, that’s part of who I am. I love learning new tools, SDKs, programming languages / features, and sharing that knowledge with all of you. I’ll continue sharing on YouTube, X, Instagram, and other social platforms because I truly believe there will always be a need to help developers overcome barriers through educational content. 💡𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙄 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙣𝙤𝙣-𝙈𝙚𝙩𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩? Absolutely. I’ll be shifting my focus from hardware to purely development, which is how I started on YouTube. I made tons of AR Foundation and XR Toolkit videos that were hardware-agnostic, and I think that’s what made my channel so helpful to many of you. Moving forward, I’ll focus on XR tools within game engines, AI, and programming tips, as those apply to pretty much any device on the market. 💡𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙮 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙄 𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙈𝙚𝙩𝙖? Ever since I started making XR content, I saw so much interest from so many different devs in building XR experiences, but the cost of entry into XR was incredibly high. XR devices were practically unreachable for indie developers or hobbyists. Meta has been lowering those barriers with more accessible hardware and tools. Their ability to move fast as a company, create amazing products, and pivot to make XR practical has been truly inspiring. In talking with the team, they really care about developer success. Your success will enable the future. You're going to build the cool and exciting experiences that will bring all the people to come back day after day. And, I'm excited to help you do it. This is a decision that took me half a year to make a reality. While I’ve loved working as a solo creator, I soon realized that to make a bigger impact, I needed to pivot. In my mind, this change will allow me to help even more people, not only through videos but also by participating in many future in-person events. I’ll continue making plenty of XR content (which I love), though probably not as much at first since I’m going through onboarding. But as I get more familiar with my new Dev Advocate role, I’ll gradually bring it back to a regular schedule while adding more content on Meta channels as well. I’m super excited about the 👓 FUTURE! and I can’t wait to keep helping you bring your ideas to reality! Best, Dilmer #developers #meta #xr

Honestly, these are the most practical smart glasses with AI available today. I’ve been using this special edition version with live translations for a month or so and they’re extremely useful! 👉 I’ll be posting a full review & how I use them for development and other tasks on YouTube this week.

I’m very excited to be part of this upcoming event focused on AI and XR! This is a pre-session to help warm up for the main Harvard XR event happening on April 19th. I’ll be running a workshop and talking about XR and camera access! Sign up below 👇

Hi everyone! I will be at Reboot Develop Blue 2025 this coming April 14-16! I’m really excited to meet VR/MR developers working on some of the most beautiful apps and games we all love to play! 💡 If you’re a developer and want to meet, feel free to DM me! I’m more than happy to collaborate, test your game, provide feedback, or discuss any improvements you’d like to see with Meta SDKs. 📌 I’ll also be part of a panel discussing video creation for VR/MR! #xr #devs

Hi All, I am super curious, for those of you who do XR design and like to get something mocked up but functional before building in a game engine. 💡Which XR design tool do you currently use or have used in the past? #xr #developers

I will be doing a talk at a very incredible University in a few weeks. Honestly, I never thought I’d be in this position, and super excited about this opportunity.

This new ChatGPT image generation model is pretty crazy! Even the letters and backpack logo came just perfect 🤯

This a very cool idea and it reminds me of the Project Setup Tool but taking it to a deeper level where it helps you with VR optimization!

Hello everyone 👋 HUGE NEWS DEVS! Passthrough Camera Access has been one of the most requested features by developers for years. Today, I'd love to give you a full rundown of all its features, including a few showcases and a step-by-step tutorial on how to implement it in your own Unity Mixed Reality projects. 🎥 Full video: invidious.tiekoetter.com/lhnuP6lJ_yY 📌 The demos shown today will include: - CameraViewer: Shows a 2D canvas with the camera data inside. - CameraToWorld: Demonstrates how to align the pose of the RGB camera images with Passthrough, and how a 2D image coordinates can be transformed into 3D rays in world space. - BrightnessEstimation: Illustrates brightness estimation and how it can be used to adapt the experience to the user’s environment. - MultiObjectDetection: Shows how to feed camera data to Unity Sentis to recognize real-world objects. - ShaderSample: Demonstrates how to apply custom effects to camera texture on GPU. 💡In addition, we’ll be building a new Unity demo using Meta SDK + the new WebCamWebTextureManager, which utilizes Android Camera2 API behind the scenes. Passthrough Camera Access GitHub samples are available below 👇

Many people at GDC mentioned how much they appreciated this video. It offers an inspiring talk and practical tips you can apply to land a job in XR, though it honestly applies to any tech role. I highly recommend watching it below! 👇 #xr #jobs

Well, that’s a wrap for #GDC 2025 🎉! It was my first time speaking at a major conference, and honestly, I can’t wait to do many more presentations and workshops. When I arrived on Monday, I was laser-focused. I got to the conference room super early, spoke with the AV staff about the setup, tested my computer, grabbed my clicker, and walked around the room to make sure I felt comfortable and I’ve got to say, it paid off. This year, I’ll be at every major event, with a strong focus on education. I’ll continue covering what I teach today on YouTube, but also create a two-way feedback loop: sharing what developers are asking for or struggling with directly with engineers at Meta, while also bringing new tools and updates from the inside out. Super hyped 🔥 for the next event, and it was such a pleasure meeting so many amazing professionals and students throughout this incredible experience!

The key is not to aim for perfection, but to know that you can always deliver and improve every single day. Imagine how much progress you can make by simply getting a little better each day. Focus on that, and make sure you’re building and creating something to show along the way. 💡Why do I say this? Because too many people build in a vacuum, and that doesn’t work today. Build in public and bring value to the world. That alone is an incredible skill to develop. Trust me on this: do it, and in a few years, your life and most importantly the lives of those you’ve helped will change completely!

We’re working on so many exciting new SDK improvements at Meta, it was incredible to see all the amazing things currently being built. I wish I could share more, but I can tell you the near future looks super bright. The tools are getting better, new features are on the way, and there’s a lot more to come soon!

Snap and Meta friends 😉 XR skills are our superpowers! @alessiograncini

We wrapped up another day at #GDC 2025, and once again, it was an incredible experience. Today was especially cool because developers got to try the GDC demo I created right at the booth. It was so fun to see them drawing and testing the new Passthrough Camera Access for the first time.

Wait time is over! ⌛ Introducing 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐀𝐈 𝐇𝐚𝐜𝐤athon, where 𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠-𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐈 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐗𝐑 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬. The reactions towards the recent camera-access announcements prove that developers and studios are eager for truly context-aware experiences. Last year at 𝐗𝐑𝐀𝐈 𝐇𝐚𝐜𝐤, our brilliant team managed to create a Unity plugin that connects headset cameras to LLMs— paving the way for hackers to build 25+ compelling XR & AI use cases. The results blew our minds and showed us we are just at the beginning of a genesis moment and how much potential and different use cases can be unleashed with the superpowers of MR and multimodal AI. This year, we’re going all-in on the 🧠 AI+XR duo 👓 Multimodal AI and digital sensing capabilities will be front and center at the SensAI Hack, where top AI engineers and researchers team up with XR prototyping masterminds to demonstrate what is possible with the next generation of context-aware apps. Ready to push the limits of XR and AI? Then apply for your ticket to explore the context-aware future: sensAIhack.com