VRM Reality Innovators Highlights 2026.02.02

VRM Reality Innovators Highlights 2026.02.02

VRM Reality Innovators Highlights 2026.02.02

There’s a ton of excellent content in our Reality Innovators Network community, but don’t worry if you’ve missed the last few days, we got you covered. 

Ready Player Me Alternatives Are Here

The Ready Player Me deadline is here, and thousands of developers need alternatives. Good news: solutions are emerging. Avaturn is offering discounts. Cross Metaverse Avatars is building what devs actually need. And SONIX.GG just dropped a full RPM replacement with open source code. Read more

Apache Built Morgan Motor’s WebXR Configurator

Apache and Wonderland Engine solved the quality vs. performance trade-off. Morgan Motor’s configurator delivers near-Pixel Streaming visuals with native WebXR – zero streaming costs, zero lag. Results speak for themselves. Read more

Springfield’s Metaverse Play: Decentraland + Roblox

Springfield entered the Metaverse with DeuSens, launching a virtual fashion collection on Decentraland and Roblox. NFT ownership on one platform, mass reach on another. Brand identity intact. Read more

Brands In Play: Why Your Gaming Strategy Is Broken

Brands In Play hits episode 50 with Bastian Bergmann from Solsten. The topic? Why gaming isn’t optional for brands anymore and why most companies are doing it wrong. Demographic stereotypes won’t cut it. Read more

Gaussian Splatting For Museums: The Real Story

Thomas Flynn breaks down Gaussian splatting for museums. How to capture artifacts, manage terabytes of data, publish 3D online, and keep context intact. Plus what AI-generated 3D means for historical records. Read more

Meta Is Not The Metaverse: An Open Letter

Julian Reyes wrote an open letter to tech media that needed to be written. Meta is one company. The metaverse is a category. Conflating the two flattens years of work by creators and developers building across platforms. Read more

Decart’s AI Video Model Skips Motion Capture Entirely

Decart just dropped a realtime AI video model that skips motion capture entirely for VTubing. No game engine. No traditional pipeline. Just AI generating video in real time. The VTuber workflow just changed. Read more

By | February 2, 2026