@yiningkarlli.bsky.social 'a elaborate man-in-the-middle Renderman hackery to simulate scientifically accurate black holes is probably the most mind blowing thing I've seen at SIGGRAPH this year

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:

Annual PSA: It is, indeed, possible to export the SIGGRAPH session schedule to your calendar. That feature is buried in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory, with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard" s2026.conference-schedule.org/my-agenda/

My Schedule - SIGGRAPH 2026 Conference Schedule

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I’m happy to announce the release of a new open source 3D physics engine called Box3D. I’ve been working on this project for a few years now, but it represents over 20 years of experience writing physics engines for games. Read more here: box2d.org/posts/2026/0...

"Take it from studies of over 450 companies and over three million employees: Return-to-office mandates fail to increase financial returns. They succeed only in motivating star employees to quit, reducing the satisfaction of those who stay and discouraging new talent from joining."

New York Times Opinion@nytopinion.nytimes.com · last mo.

Some bosses say full-time, in-person work boosts productivity or collaboration. “Our new research reveals that the objection to any work from home is more likely to be driven by something else entirely: ego,” write Adam Grant, Marissa Shandell and Courtney Elliott.

A few notes on pragmatic synthetic 4DGS (animated splat) pipelines, simultaneous per-frame camera capture, point clouds, and where I think 4DGS tools may need to go next: michaelybecker.com/notes/prelim...

Preliminary Thoughts About a Practical Synthetic 4DGS Pipeline

Practical notes on synthetic 4D Gaussian Splatting pipelines, flipbook-style capture, synchronized camera rigs, and the tooling gaps around dynamic splat reconstruction.

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Do you ever think about the fact that the designers of General Midi were tasked with coming up with the 128 most important instruments in the world, and one of the answers they came up with was "Goblins"

Wrote up a quick note on Gaussian splat capture using Blender, Gauss Cannon, Lichtfield, and SuperSplat. Interesting realization: arbitrary mesh geometry becomes a capture instrument. Each face becomes a camera position, directly shaping training coverage! michaelybecker.com/notes/gauss-...

MaterialX Needs a Single-File Container. Let's formalize what @polyhaven.com and @gpuopen.bsky.social material libraries are already doing with a new "mtlz" extension. Details here: ben3d.ca/blog/materia... CC: @materialx.bsky.social

MaterialX Needs a Single-File Container

MaterialX assets are multiple loose files, which breaks down in real pipelines. The community has already solved this with zip packaging. We just need to formalize it as .mtlz.

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Preparing a major PR to improve #ThreeJS MaterialX support significantly. In order to perfect it, I've written an open source @materialx.bsky.social Fidelity Suite inspired by the @khronos.org / @gltf.bsky.social fidelity tool: material-fidelity.ben3d.ca

Well this sucks. Ian’s been my favorite part of UploadVR for many years. Support him here: goodvr.substack.com

Good Virtual Reality | Ian Hamilton | Substack

Good places to visit in virtual reality as recommended by Ian Hamilton and partners. Click to read Good Virtual Reality, by Ian Hamilton, a Substack publication. Launched 13 hours ago.

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Ian@ianhamilton.net · 6mo ago

I’ve been fired from UploadVR.

I downloaded a midi file to my phone. Phone didn't know how to play it. Small everyday signs of Empire collapse

Eternal Wanderer@eternalwanderer.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Dianna's Midi Page Apr 1997 Archived Web Page 🧩 🔊 #xstablu #1997

At 3:45 PM tomorrow at SIGGRAPH, Lea Reichardt and Marco Manzi will present our part of the "Path Guiding in Production" course. Lea and Marco will talk about how we've been bridging cutting edge research into production in Disney's Hyperion Renderer. s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

Presentation - SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference Schedule

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I can't believe I'm posting our interview with @kentbye.com It was a real treat going on an immersive adventure with him while we were at The Tribeca Creator's Market. Such a thrill to be on this show I've listened to for over a decade. voicesofvr.com/1587-space-t... #AR #VR #Immersive

This will be a fun double feature

Every few months i log back on here but something immediately emerges as a dealbreaker. No photos/video in DMs is frankly astounding

holy taxes, batman. the underwithholding struggle is real and it is painful

"Seattlite" has no good, or correct, spelling

new Quest 3 for work. What are the must have accessories? Best dock? Best case? (Coming from Pro, I got quite used to the convenience of the dock)

this pattern needs to GO. You can autosave on click, outlook. You have the technology

Love bogleheads. Such dad jokers

I've never had Kimura Fijusan cider but it feels like the perfect beverage to be enjoying during my first FFX playthrough

Wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/3615440/... store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/la-p...

La Pasion XR on Steam

“La Pasión XR" takes guests on an ephemeral, audio-reactive journey through the Gateway Chamber Orchestra’s Spring 2023 performance of Osvaldo Golijov's La Pasion según San Marcos.

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Not gonna lie, seeing the items available for auction from the Technicolor Culver City office is very sad. There are SO many. www.cagp.com/auctions/a-f...

for several years I've enjoyed knowing that the Renderman addon for Blender was called Blenderman but I'm beginning to think I hallucinated that word all along

new type of rejection unlocked

Balatro finally arrived! Never ever using any other deck

never a wrong time to post non-LSD Osamu Sato work youtu.be/H-4AEf4cJnQ

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Help my workers have taken control of the means of production