Learnings from an Unreal Shared Technology Group at XBOX youtu.be/Jwf5zwj67nY?...

Today at Pixar's Open Source BoF at SIGGRAPH I'll be introducing USD Web View: an OSS webapp built for meaningful OpenUSD stage access and interaction. The project enables OpenUSD inspection, composition arc access, MaterialX support, Gaussian Splats and more, in one web-native environment:

Wow! Instagram’s AI just inflated my resume! This is why you should never believe these AIs on facts, it’s just a guessing machine (I did used to work at Pixar, I have been an art director, but I was never an art director at Pixar)

Well.... As today's events have shown.. There's no way Russell's car is identical to Kimi's. Toto is absolutely full of shit.

Been watching F1 since 1985 & I'm not into conspiracy theories but there definitely seems to be something fishy going on at Mercedes. Russell is getting screwed because there's no way Kimi should be that fast compared to him. There's some shady energy deployment shenanigans trickery going on

Lamborghini 1 CTL “Ercolina” ランボルギーニの試作トラクター タイヤと履帯を装備 www.artcurial.com/en/sales/644...

I keep seeing arguments for games being expensive due to hyper realistic expectations for art, or simply lots of art. What I don’t see is the actual most costly reason: Indecision Iteration is good, but the yearly rebuilding of entire characters, storylines, and levels, is the most expensive thing

Happy to share that I'll be joining the Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course at Siggraph next week to talk about how we render volumetric effects in our Glacier engine & 007 First Light with Smolder! Take a look at all the cool presentations that are lined up!

Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail by @fabinou.bsky.social fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_par...

2026 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course line up is here - check it out! advances.realtimerendering.com

Just launched Doom: The Dark Ages on Xbox SX & the IQ is now nigt and day compared to how it was since launch pior to the DLC update (which I guess includes significant performance tweaks). Everything looks like the base resolution has been significantly increased alongside better TAA.

WTF! Holding the disk while the drive is furiously trying to suck it in and letting it go after a second makes the console play de fucking disk! What the actual fuck is this?

14 juillet 2026 : revivez en images le défilé aérien qui a survolé La Défense >> defense-92.fr?p=88258

EGSR 2026 recordings: www.youtube.com/@egsr2026/pl... (Also linked from the programme: egsr2026.inria.fr/programme/)

Tried watching Tron: Ares ( on Disney+) & couldn't make it past the 10 minutes mark. 👎🏻 🤢

The Xbox Blu-ray app is a flaming piece of shit. Half of my BR & UHD disks can't be played anymore on both my XSX & Xbox One X (same disks don't work on both consoles with same error message or app crash). All those disks worked last year.

Color mixing in water. 64 named colors (4 * 4 * 4) #gamedev #indiedev

The recording of my Vulkanised 2026 talk is now live 🎥 In this talk, I walk through the journey of bringing a Vulkan RT pipeline into Godot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HddS... Thanks to LunarG for the opportunity and to the @godotengine.org community for the reviews and feedback.

We submitted the final chapter of the 2nd edition of Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan! We rewrote and expanded much of the book, exploring TAA upscaling, ray-traced shadows, reflections, GI, denoising, mesh shaders, and modern Vulkan. Now time to review everything! :)

It's been 84 years, but we're cooking again! For y'all who wanted to build rustic villages, here's a sneak peek of upcoming wooden walls 👀

Genuinely I think I link this post every 3 months at this point but I've been seeing random people talking about how with AAA in a bad state it's time for "the year of the indie" or whatever and: it's time for those people to read A Pivot To Indie Won't Save Us auratriolo.com/blog/2025/01...

New AMD graphics research on GPUOpen! "PEPS: Positional Encoding Projected Sampling" presented at #I3D2026 🧠 A new neural technique for texture compression & beyond. 📉 25% fewer parameters for equivalent reconstruction quality. Download the paper ⬇️ gpuopen.com/learn/public...

I'm confused..How come the Radeon 9070XT is available all over Europe at MSRP ? I was told that GPUs prices were out of this world ?

Initial results are in. On the dev branch you can now find a DXR renderer for the exact view on Crytek Sponza used in the benchmark experiments. The DXR renderer needs some verification but initial results suggest that TinyBVH does 2.4B primary rays for view1; DXR does 3.6B. Similar for other views.

This #ThrowbackThursday let's temper that summer heat with winter, and look at some #snowy environments!

OVERGROWN: Blender Studio's feature film project Watch the announcement: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hwM... #b3d #OpenMovie #BlenderStudio

Does anyone have links to real scientific studies showing that human intelligence is in sharp decline ? I mean it's pretty fucking obvious that in the next 5 to 10 years the average IQ is going to hover below room temp.. But having real data to back this up would be great.

Will 2026 finally be the year when Notrh American devs finally realise/understand that they are no longer competitive because of their ridiculously high wages/salaries compared to the gigantic & cheaper talent pool available globally?

TinyBVH has just been 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝟭.𝟴.𝟬. For CPU ray tracing, it is now the fastest option in most cases - Outperforming Intel Embree and Madmann91 for BVH build time and single-ray performance. On GPU, performance exceeds 4B rays per second - 4 rays per pixel at 4k/120Hz. github.com/jbikker/tiny...

Frequency-Aware Spatio-Angular Gaussians for Efficient Global Illumination Precomputation and Real-Time Rendering youtu.be/d9NtQqXEL3g?... repo-sam.inria.fr/nerphys/pbr_...

AMD: Ray Tracing Massive Amounts of Animated Geometry dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10....

Talkin'outtayoass should be introduced as a new discipline at the next summer Olympics. There wouldn't be any shortage of participants.

We will present our latest work today at CGl 2026! STAR-NT: Spatiotemporal Acceleration of Real-Time Neural Transparency Rendering 📅 Tuesday 7 July, 12:30-12:45 BST (online) www.tobias-franke.eu/publications...

Unsurprisingly some of the dumbest hot takes are from people within the industry 😑 😩

An important update from Compulsion Games.

Performative outrage Olympics is a go!

Pretty cool new sim work by TUM: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Tx... Paper: ge.in.tum.de/download/ST-...

The New Nakagin Capsule tower. A cyberpunk version of the Nakagin Capsule building. It was first shown at Skaerbaek last year (2025). #LEGO #レゴ #cyberpunk

Hey everyone. A reminder that the deadline for graphic article proposal for GPU Zen 5 is approaching quickly. Sharing knowledge is the best way to learn!

Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting youtu.be/jgD5w3RM0k4?...

Our #HPG2026 paper "Memory-Efficient Bounding Volume Hierarchies with Merged Nodes for Hardware Ray Tracing" introduces new ways of constructing BVHs that consistently outperform state-of-the-art BVHs for GPU ray tracing. Project page: graphics.cs.utah.edu/research/pro... @ebrunvand.bsky.social

This story is of course awful, but I do not get the cries for physical media. Just get your digital content DRM-free: ePubs, MP4s, OGG/MP3, GOG Installers. Store them on an external drive. "Not on your offline disk, not your digital content" fulu-foundation.ghost.io/sony-termina...