The 1.1 release of OpenXR moves popular extensions into core & kicks off a yearly minor release cycle.
I chat with the working group chair & the Khronos Group president to get the lowdown on this release.
See thread below for links to interviews + more updates on #OpenXR 🧵👇

Took a bit longer than 2 weeks but @WonderInteractive managed to get Unreal Engine 5 working on the web.

temple.tiwsamples.com

It took ~5 minutes to load but it was fun 🤓

RTXGI 2.0 is now available on GitHub and features two radiance caching technologies for improving path traced signal quality: the Spatially Hashed Radiance Cache (SHARC) and the Neural Radiance Cache (NRC).
#GDC2024
developer.nvidia.com/rtx/ray-tracin…

#define PI 0x03c0

Akira Toriyama, creator of the Dragon Ball series has passed away at the age of 68. He is a legend in anime and gaming, his work includes Dr. Slump, Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger, and other classic works. bit.ly/3wH0GDv

How scrolling backgrounds work on the NeoGeo

PC8801版スナッチャー「Theme of Snatcher (Part 1)」をKORG opsixで弾いてみました。この音楽を欺まんに満ちた世界で闘う、全ての『サイバー・パンカー』に捧げる。 #KORG #opsix #Konami #SNATCHER

XEiJ 0.24.02.08
stdkmd.net/xeij/

First things first. Enable WebXR on Safari for Vision Pro. Just two toggles:

- WebXR Device API
- WebXR Hand Input Module

As part of the Vulkan Roadmap, Khronos announced the release of VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering_local_read, which adds support for local dependencies to dynamic rendering; enabling developers to fully move over to dynamic rendering.

Learn more: khronos.org/blog/streamlin…
#vulkan #api

Are you ready? Because we are. And We Are Many. #revision2024

Considering that muffin tops are the best part, it occurs to me that in zero gravity on the ISS, you could bake spherical muffins that are “all top” by just floating a ball of dough in the oven with no pan.

Fighter planes of the 1950s used the Bendix Central Air Data Computer, an electromechanical analog computer that computed with gears. In this thread, I look inside its pressure transducers that converted pressure readings to shaft rotations that turned the gears. 1/13

There is an art installation at DFW airport that looks like CG aliasing and I hate it.

The Intel 386 processor (1985) is a complicated chip. One of its features is a 'barrel shifter' (red) that can shift binary values by 0 to 32 bits in one step, much faster than shifting one bit at a time. Let's see how it works. 1/11