A long thread on some unpleasant realities about AAA game development. The level of competition in the game industry is great for consumers, but tough for developers.

Respect.

If you have IO maxed out loading things while a logo is being shown there is no harm, but it is often just a forced wait, which is user-hostile.

Trista adores her Ember heated coffee cup, but it leaves a lifetime coffee cup collection sadly unused. I wonder if battery density is good enough that someone could make a chunky stir stick to bring electronic temperature maintenance to any cup. Sam D'Amico ?

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The Life and Death of a Graphics Programmer

Well this sucks. I liked Workplace, both at Meta and currently at Keen.

I assume Meta will continue maintaining their internal version, rather than adopting the suggested commercial option, which may have similar downsides to their continued use of Mercurial vs Git.

We’ve tried various tracking modes for years starting with Oculus Go bed mode. However getting something to feel good & content to function correctly is hard & needs foundational support. meta.com/blog/quest/tra…

Tens to hundreds of small bug fixes but here it is. Travel Mode!

Was just wondering what the “speed of light” video quality limit for an old standard definition analog CRT display would be if you drove the input from a modern system with 4k source data and essentially unlimited processing power.

There would certainly be a big step up going