TRON in Virtual Reality
Update: March 20, 2026
TL;DR - I'm suddenly porting "TRON: The I/O Tower" to VRChat! Because Horizon Worlds is shutting down!
The long version. Meta is migrating away from Horizon Worlds on VR and is moving it toward mobile. Unfortunately, HW hasn't worked out for them. But for my part, I thoroughly enjoyed creating "TRON: The I/O Tower" in HW. And Meta's unique, immersive VR "code blocks" building system was extremely cool, intuitive, and brought a lot of beginners on board in creating VR worlds for the first time. I am truly saddened to see it go. The whole vibe with the low-tech graphics & code block system was very inside-out meta-TRON and I loved it!
Along the way though, I was always afraid, because there was no way to save my work outside of Meta's control. If & when Meta pulled the plug, all my work would be gone. And now, that plug is pulled, but...
Fear not, programs! Meta's release of Worlds Desktop Editor provided me a way to export my geometries - tower, maze, recognizer, grid bugs, etc. - for import into Unity/VRChat! And while I cannot export my code & logic, being able to reuse my geometries is worth hundreds of hours.
And so it begins again, a reboot of sorts. Find me in VRChat as "ddprogram" and I'll give you a tour of the grid thus far. There's lots to do, but like the man says, only solutions!
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