Since taking over as head of Xbox, Asha Sharma has recruited several high-profile names to work at Microsoft’s gaming division. Among them is Scott Van Vliet, who serves as technical director. A few days ago, he personally participated in the modification of a demo by an independent developer. Asha Sharma expressed appreciation for his behavior.
Xbox Chief Technology Officer Scott Van Vliet made changes to the open source code for Prasenjit’s browser-based 3D demo. This project is an interactive tropical forest that you can freely navigate directly in your browser. The author developed this demo using Claude AI, where textures and sounds are generated programmatically, without the need to download ready-made assets from the Internet. It allows you to explore fully programmatically generated environments directly in the browser.
Scott Van Vliet prepared “New Foldable Performance Debugging Coverage” for the Pull Request project. This change has been accepted by the repository author, and a separate panel has been added to monitor the performance of the 3D scene. The debug window shows FPS, frame processing time on CPU, number of draw calls, renderer resources used, graphics quality level, and resolution. It also displays information about GPU and WebGL, platforms, browsers, and available hardware specifications. Panels can be collapsed via the title or hidden using the F3 key; control information has been added to the project’s readme file.
VanVleet himself later posted positive remarks on social media Appreciate Concept, Prasenjit Thanks to Xbox CTO for adding a new debugging interface. Asha Sharma also commented on the project, praising the initiative and writing “Creators are more important than managers”.
Let us recall that earlier Scott Van Vliet personally commented on issues in the operation of Xbox services, after which changes were made to the console firmware.