Oliver Schmalzl

My personal website. This is where I collect my projects and ideas, at the moment mostly around AI and virtual reality on the Meta Quest, along with my favourite tools for Windows and macOS and notes that might save others some work.

Read and explore

• Blog: thoughts and reading tips on AI, technology and digital tools, with links to sources.
• Films and series: my personal collection.
• AI compendium, in German: 158 detailed chapters with a tool catalogue, 100 public figures, practical examples, prompt templates and a self-check.
• Concerts: my personal collection.
• Software for Windows and software for macOS: my collection of useful tools.
• VR view: explore this website as a spatial view.
• Help: explore this website’s appearances, games and features.

What I am working on

Classic games on the Meta Quest. Using open source engines, I bring strategy and building classics such as The Settlers II, Red Alert, Transport Tycoon, Theme Hospital, X-COM and Warcraft II wirelessly to the headset. The game appears as a large screen or as a table in the room, the controllers replace the mouse, and a VR menu handles picture and comfort settings. The ports are freely available; everyone brings the game data from their own copy.

RealmCraft Companion. A companion app for the VR sandbox game RealmCraft on the Quest: back up worlds, maps and 3D preview, search chests, plan building projects. For macOS, as an Android app that also runs directly on the Quest, and as a demo in the browser.

XR ports RealmCraft Companion All projects GitHub

About this site

This site replaces my old WordPress blog and is deliberately kept simple: texts written in Markdown, no tracking, no ads. Some of the content is only visible after signing in.