I'd say the game made for the swadge (or whatever he kept saying), was extended into VR. I wouldn't consider the title misleading, just not as clearly communicated as it could have been.

There was interop with VRChat, but I wouldn't say that VRChat was running on the swadge. And VRChat itself is both a desktop game and a VR game. In this case the swadge is communicating with the desktop version of the game and a CDN which distributes video data to some users who are in VR.

“Cool, but”

Wow, did you actually watch the video, and understand what was accomplished?

The technical expertise shown in this project is extremely impressive, and you are getting hung up on the title not living up to your interpretation of it.

>Wow, did you actually watch the video, and understand what was accomplished?

Yes. He's not the first one to make a 3D game on an ESP32, nor is he the first to communicate with a VRChat world using a video stream and shader, nor is he the first to read data back from VRChat via reading pixels that are set by a shader. These are all existing things that are well established and are put together to make a cool app for the badge and it looked like the attendees got joy from it so I would call it a success.

I am not saying that building this was trivial especially since he went the route of building most of this from scratch, but it just wasn't what I was hoping to see when watching the video. As a fan of VR I was interested it seeing problems related to the hardware being too weak and seeing just what was possible on such limited hardware.

“Cool, but” pretty close to “Well, actually”.