“Normcore makes the decision to add multiplayer to a game a no brainer. It doesn’t matter if it’s VR, 2D, or on the web. It’s straightforward, easy to set up, and it just works. At Shopify we were able to build a full social web game with networked physics and voice in no time. I still can’t believe it can run like butter at 120fps…in a browser!" - Daniel Beauchamp.

A while back Dylan (here on discord) shared a project where they did Quest hand tracking networked with Normcore. I wanted to do something similar, but updated for the new oculus runtime, the new Normcore2 preview, and optimized a bit further. the result is a new package - https://github.com/absurd-joy/Quest-hands-for-Normcore I'm going to continue updating it and refining it to get it running as nice as we can for our own internal purposes, but feel free to contribute!

I was having trouble finding examples of how to use RealtimeDictionary, so I put up a quick guide on how it works for anyone who gets stuck in the future: https://gist.github.com/d12/f577bb50b0fdeeb17084819c78fe5c43

Allows to enable/disable synchronization of RealtimeTransform bundled with Rigidbody by enabling/disabling this component. It just forces to kill the remaining running coroutine. The syncing of RealtimeTransform triggers physics syncing every frame, even when objects aren't moving. so once you get to a couple hundred in the scene, the performance hit really adds up. with just a couple hundred objects you can hit multiple ms per frame, even if you're only moving a few of those per frame https://gist.github.com/vrobel/3f209c2adfd0bed256c548b04715c00f

Made a Normcore sample with MRTK for Oculus Quest Here is #MRTK-Online! A basic open source extension that shows how to integrate Normcore with MRTK_Quest. You can download the app to try this out now on GitHub! Or grab the source and make your own online experience! Code is open source here https://github.com/provencher/MRTK-Online

I saw a few people asking a question that I was also asking: how to setup a throwable object scenario. Scoured through the back logs here to find the simplest path to get there, and wrote up this instructional. Should take less than 10 minutes to go from importing Normcore to functional throwing multiplayer. I've mostly been using it to teach some friends who are completely new to the software, but hope its useful to you all to. Thanks Normcore! https://arvrjourney.com/how-to-setup-a-basic-vr-multiplayer-ball-toss-using-normcore-d86f1476e87c (and if anyone sees ways to improve this, definitely appreciate the feedback)

Someone just asked me to send them the code snippet of how I am using RealtimePoolManager in my project for all the prefabs and avatars so I just created a gist, hope it helps someone who hasn't already implemented pooling with RealtimePrefabs. https://gist.github.com/harrissaleem/4db886a735a2f5af88abfaeca6505290

Hey folks, I wanted to share the first release of the Parameter Binder. Hope y'all find it useful. https://github.com/chetu3319/Normcore-ParameterBinder/releases/tag/v1.0 Share your feature requests and feel free to contribute.

Normcore-adjacent code: yesterday i prototyped a simple serverless-backend for managing a room list using Google Cloud Functions and Firestore. Once deployed to google cloud you can use normal http calls to create a room, join or leave an existing room and get a list of all rooms. https://github.com/liamcary/multiplayer-room-backend