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Oculus VR CTO

Dallas, TX
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Joined August 2010
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  1. 22 hours ago

    While MPEG-4 AVC is a huge standard win, MPEG-4 has a lot of silly, commercially useless stuff thrown in.

    12 replies 28 retweets 66 likes
  2. Jul 30

    Dolphin updates are wonderful system engineering articles.

    One of the most important changes in Dolphin history has been merged. Ubershaders is here! Read on to learn more!
    8 replies 189 retweets 621 likes
  3. Jul 30

    Count me in as a "New Optimist". I'm open to crisply defined decade scale bets if any ardent pessimists want to put money down.

    The Guardian's long read on "an increasingly influential group of optimist thinkers":
    12 replies 34 retweets 122 likes
  4. Jul 28

    I have been doing this for several years, but I wish I had learned it earlier!

    New blog post. Old hat to many, but if not: start doing this!
    9 replies 65 retweets 220 likes
  5. Jul 24
    Replying to

    Typical video based sensing methods would introduce more latency than nerve transmission, but an optimized system at very high frame rate...

    14 replies 6 retweets 40 likes
  6. Jul 24

    Since cranial nerves go directly to the brain, I wonder if you could have faster button reaction times with eye blinks / face twitches.

    58 replies 37 retweets 180 likes
  7. Jul 24

    The things that have been done in ShaderToy make me reexamine some of my preconceptions about levels of computing.

    "Pixel Shader Dungeon" - dungeon crawler based on "Pixel Dungeon" inside a pixel shader
    7 replies 106 retweets 345 likes
  8. Jul 22
    Replying to

    The enthusiasm for synthetic scan line artifacts in the game emulation crowd doesn't seem present in the video crowd.

    28 replies 10 retweets 114 likes
  9. Jul 22
    Replying to

    There must be tons of historical TV footage that is never going to see a better format, so actually display it with gaps and low persistence

    9 replies 4 retweets 54 likes
  10. Jul 22

    I am of the interlaced-video-can-die-in-a-fire mindset, but solid 60 fps display of an interlaced signal might be better than merged 30.

    19 replies 22 retweets 155 likes
  11. Jul 22

    The <stdint.h> types aren't required if the compiler doesn't want to support them -- int8_t on a Cray, in64_t on a microcontroller, etc.

    9 replies 9 retweets 74 likes
  12. Jul 21

    I felt there was a touch of zealotry about the VPx codec boosters, but I am close to conversion after exposure to the h265 licensing mess.

    12 replies 31 retweets 108 likes
  13. Retweeted
    Jul 20

    Awesome looking research into reconstruction from 1 sample/pixel pathtracing

    Our paper on real-time reconstruction (less than 10ms at 1080p) for 1spp path tracing is now online:
    2 replies 28 retweets 109 likes
  14. Jul 20

    If you are defining fields in code that are based on a formal ISO spec, do you use the capitalization / separation from:

    28 replies 18 retweets 34 likes
  15. Jul 20

    In general, if you have an optimal reality, virtual reality will have little appeal to you. VR will scale better than reality.

    Replying to @ID_AA_Carmack
    Or “offices with doors you can close”..
    9 replies 31 retweets 109 likes
  16. Jul 20

    I have been saying that eventually VR will be used for productivity apps as "headphones for your eyes".

    If you're like me, you're way less productive when your colleagues keep talking to & around you. Time to buy one?
    29 replies 93 retweets 216 likes
  17. Jul 20

    Aging isn't bothering me personally (yet), but seeing the passing of people you respected is a regular reminder.

    I seems Jordan Kare has died. A visionary man and one of the reasons Space Access was such an awesome place to hang out.
    7 replies 21 retweets 150 likes
  18. Jul 19

    As usual, I'll be available the entire conference for feedback. Bring your demos!

    Apply Now to Attend !
    6 replies 14 retweets 81 likes
  19. Jul 19

    I never saw these!

    Replying to @chton @TASKvsTheWorld and 10 others
    I adore the Haynes' Guides to things like the Millennium Falcon and the Klingon Bird of Prey ().
    5 replies 13 retweets 47 likes
  20. Jul 18

    Since the mp4 format came from QuickTime, I like to think the moof box is a homage to the Dogcow.

    6 replies 13 retweets 63 likes

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