All I can so far it's the following :
- there's no release date of any sort yet "it's ready when it's ready"
- we don't want to show anything/much of it until it's really in stage that "you see it, you try it and makes your jaw/head/eyes fall"
- it has to be "the ultimate VLM" at least for quite another iteration
- it's so far "entierly Vulkan based" aimed to get "the max performance"
- it's fundamentally "a VR thing" but also possible to run in non-vr mode ( but it's not quite the same of course )
- it's a SYNTH aimed to be "a multi user PERFORMANCE thing" it's NOT just "a passive visualizer" in fact almost all you control it with your
movements/hands/etc. "in intuitive ways"
- it has an "easy put the headset and wave you hands and shit happens" mode as well as a more complex "editor mode" where you properly start messing "as a synth" connecting this to that and triggers and shit to this and that and "edit effects".
- it's a REALLY COMPLEX PROJECT that it's also going to be "our new game engine" for games to be
- so far it's been 100% developed in parallel on PC/Oculus Quest, Quest is in a way "our best target" in the sense we'd aim for a completely self-contained untethered system ideally "you bring with you to the party" and shit like that
- we are still working on it but it's meant to be a single/multi-user experience where "the crew" interacts as "one"
And now LAST BUT NOT LEAST, actually maybe "a very important issue" :
This project is ENTIERLY SELF-FUNDED i.e. we are eating our ( last/little ) money/savings for this, NO ONE at the moment is paying us ONE penny for it, this thing is done because IT HAS TO BE DONE OR IT'S NEVER DONE !
We don't even know if it's ever going to be "commercial" if it's ever going to "sell" or how but WE DON'T CARE AT THE MOMENT, it's all about GETTING IT DONE ! And it's all about GETTING IT DONE THE WAY *WE* SEE IT !
This is not "to pleasure a certain audience X" this is done "the way VLM was meant to be done" .. yes it will make your mind blow, yes it will make your eyes pop, yes it coud be "unsafe", yes maybe will twist your brain into dunno what, yes maybe you'll loose yourself into psychedelia forever ...
.. and this is exactly what is meant to be ...
THIS IS VLM 4.0 ! Full stop ! It's a thing "that has to be" and that maybe "no one else will ever do if not us" because "it has to be extreme as it needs to be"
However we'll see in a future "how it goes" would be nice to get "something" from/for it at some point, at least to be sure we won't be dying starving and/or trying to eat grass like the sheep because we'll ran out of food or such .. at least "leave us the electric power so we can still run the PCs" ..
But yes that's the state of VLM 4.0 "it exists in some form" for now and it's coming along good.
About the "will it be on other systems" .. well "it all depends on what we can do", if we'll be still alive, if someway we'll be still going, if we won't be on a street before all that.
TIMES ARE TOUGH, MONEY IS LITTLE that's "a fact" but we keep going.
Ah yes Moose Life I am still working on it, "in parallel", going good.
so instead, as a green-headed alien in one of those gouraud shaded games from the 90s once said:
