I joined Meta's AR/VR team yesterday. Can’t wait to get my hands on some new prototypes! Super excited about our product roadmap!

Valve artist rich_lord gave a great talk at SIGGRAPH HIVE 2023 that every rendering dev should watch. Tons of inspirational moments for shader development. The fractal sequence starting 29 minutes in is impressive. youtu.be/R-S9d-qFRHM?si…

This is a quarantine gift from the gods! Can’t wait to make my way through all of the developer commentary in Half-Life: Alyx! Jason hired me at ATI 22 years ago and then recruited me to Valve 8 years later. Technical writing is his superpower. This is going to be amazing.

A new software update will increase the visual fidelity on the Reverb G2 and other WMR headsets, by improving corrections made for chromatic aberration and more.

uploadvr.com/reverb-g2-visu…

Here is a short write-up of some visual quality improvements I’ve been working on the last few months at Microsoft for the HP Reverb G2

My career started in 1997. I remember when we started putting heat sinks on GPUs before anyone called them GPUs. And let’s not forget about the QA guy who ran out of thermal paste and used a half-chewed Tootsie Roll instead. Spoiler alert: it didn’t work. Good times at ATI!

Very excited to share that I joined Microsoft today as a Partner Architect in Mixed Reality (HoloLens, VR, etc.)! Been looking forward to this for a while! More details later.

After seeing Animusic's Pipe Dream at ACM SIGGRAPH 2001, they offered my team at ATI all their art assets to build a real-time demo that we shipped one year later for Radeon 9700. Now I learn this! @Intel built a fully functional robotic replica! Amazing! youtube.com/watch?v=JLdB0W…

Half-Life VR, fun fact. I was the first person to import and render a Half-Life 2 model in VR. It was Alyx’s giant robot dog in his idle animation. April 2014. I fell asleep that day with my HMD on. Woke up to a giant robot dog aggressively staring at me. Nearly crapped my pants!

Some of my favorite parts of The Lab...Easter eggs! Fun fact: The hidden Valve demo room is the room I first experienced VR in back in 2013 when Atman Binstock showed me his early 'step off the ledge' demo! I joined the VR team at Valve a few weeks later.
roadtovr.com/found-9-secret…

After 13 amazing years at Valve, it's time for a change. It was a hard decision to leave, but I couldn't be happier. I have a few wheels in motion. Nothing to share just yet. Excited about what comes next. Until then, I’m taking a well-deserved hiatus and enjoying some time off!

Mini documentary on the collaboration between Valve and Cloudhead Games during development of Aperture Hand Labs #ValveIndex
youtu.be/WLXkFjQgJOU

Interesting results. I have not tried mixing a stacked luminance image with an RGB DSLR image to capture a color image of the moon. I'll have to try this out soon, but I'll probably be less aggressive with the saturation boost.
photographingspace.com/high-res-moon-…

So you know, Andrew Glassner rewrote sections 2.6 and 2.7 of 'An Introduction to Ray Tracing' last week and inserted it into the free PDF of the book. Info & download latest from here: realtimerendering.com/an_intro_to_rt…

Excellent! Congrats!

SIGGRAPH 2019 hotel reservations are open: s2019.siggraph.org/attend/find-a-…

Excellent! Thanks for sharing details Alex Kipman. Nice upgrade from HoloLens! Can’t wait to check it out myself!

We’re committed to openness.

1: We believe in an open app store model. Third party app stores are welcome within our ecosystem!

2: We believe in an open web browsing model. Firefox will be joining #HoloLens2 .

3: We’ll continue to steer open standards such as Kronos & OpenXR.