Max Bickley
@maxbickley.com
XR Product Manager @ NVIDIA - Raytracing & USD for your eyeballs.
Previously lighting @ Pixar
I'm very serious about not taking things seriously.
Previously lighting @ Pixar
I'm very serious about not taking things seriously.
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it's taken me a while to put this together. but I hope, if you've never heard of her, or even if you have, this tribute to Alice Wong buoys your heart and gives you a good sense of who this incredible person was. www.coyotemedia.org/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong
On the one-month anniversary of her passing, we honor the acclaimed disability justice advocate, writer, shit-talker, and friend to so many.
www.coyotemedia.org
December 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
it's taken me a while to put this together. but I hope, if you've never heard of her, or even if you have, this tribute to Alice Wong buoys your heart and gives you a good sense of who this incredible person was. www.coyotemedia.org/remembering-...
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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LEGO Icons Land Rover Classic Defender 90, Model Car Building Set is $175 on Amazon buff.ly/GP8vwDZ
Walmart buff.ly/H9HiLKp #ad
Walmart buff.ly/H9HiLKp #ad
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Tonight will be the biggest and brightest moon of the year. We'll see the Harvest Supermoon peak at 11:47 PM eastern time tonight. Here's a recreation in Bryce 3D.
October 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Tonight will be the biggest and brightest moon of the year. We'll see the Harvest Supermoon peak at 11:47 PM eastern time tonight. Here's a recreation in Bryce 3D.
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September 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
We think that new iPhone is RAL 2004? Does this question help you all understand how I make important life choices?
August 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
We think that new iPhone is RAL 2004? Does this question help you all understand how I make important life choices?
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Pretty neat!
github.com/NVIDIA/3DObj...
github.com/NVIDIA/3DObj...
GitHub - NVIDIA/3DObjectReconstruction: 3D Object Reconstruction project is a workflow that takes a set of stereo images and camera info and outputs a textured mesh (i.e., .OBJ file). The purpose is t...
3D Object Reconstruction project is a workflow that takes a set of stereo images and camera info and outputs a textured mesh (i.e., .OBJ file). The purpose is to translate physical items into the d...
github.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Pretty neat!
github.com/NVIDIA/3DObj...
github.com/NVIDIA/3DObj...
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Join us on August 5th for the MaterialX and OpenPBR Virtual Townhall at ASWF Open Source Days 2025, featuring presentations from Autodesk, IKEA, Lucasfilm, NVIDIA, OTOY, and Pixar RenderMan.
events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-...
events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-...
Virtual Townhalls | LF Events
Leading up to our main program on August 10, we will be holding a series of virtual town halls for Academy Software Foundation projects including MaterialX, OpenCue, OpenColorIO, Open RV, among others...
events.linuxfoundation.org
July 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Join us on August 5th for the MaterialX and OpenPBR Virtual Townhall at ASWF Open Source Days 2025, featuring presentations from Autodesk, IKEA, Lucasfilm, NVIDIA, OTOY, and Pixar RenderMan.
events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-...
events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-...
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Folks in the #SIGGRAPH community:
You may or may not be aware of the controversy around the next #SIGGRAPHAsia location, summarized here www.cs.toronto.edu/~jacobson/we...
If you're concerned consider signing this letter docs.google.com/document/d/1...
via this form
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You may or may not be aware of the controversy around the next #SIGGRAPHAsia location, summarized here www.cs.toronto.edu/~jacobson/we...
If you're concerned consider signing this letter docs.google.com/document/d/1...
via this form
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
June 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Folks in the #SIGGRAPH community:
You may or may not be aware of the controversy around the next #SIGGRAPHAsia location, summarized here www.cs.toronto.edu/~jacobson/we...
If you're concerned consider signing this letter docs.google.com/document/d/1...
via this form
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You may or may not be aware of the controversy around the next #SIGGRAPHAsia location, summarized here www.cs.toronto.edu/~jacobson/we...
If you're concerned consider signing this letter docs.google.com/document/d/1...
via this form
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Great lineup!
Big update from The Workshop on Computer Vision For Mixed Reality @ CVPR 2025:
📝 Papers and schedule are now up!
Our Speakers:
Richard Newcombe (Meta)
Anjul Patney (NVIDIA)
Rana Hanocka (UChicago)
Laura Leal-Taixe (NVIDIA)
Margarita Grinvald (Meta)
📅 June 11, 8AM 📍Room 109.
cv4mr.github.io
📝 Papers and schedule are now up!
Our Speakers:
Richard Newcombe (Meta)
Anjul Patney (NVIDIA)
Rana Hanocka (UChicago)
Laura Leal-Taixe (NVIDIA)
Margarita Grinvald (Meta)
📅 June 11, 8AM 📍Room 109.
cv4mr.github.io
June 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Great lineup!
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Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"
Just got hit by an HDR Slack emoji like it was a frickin' flashbang.
a man is sitting at a desk working on a computer .
ALT: a man is sitting at a desk working on a computer .
media.tenor.com
May 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Just got hit by an HDR Slack emoji like it was a frickin' flashbang.
Yes
April 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Yes
Pairs great with build.nvidia.com/nvidia/usdcode :)
April 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Pairs great with build.nvidia.com/nvidia/usdcode :)
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Giving a talk tomorrow on the state of XR at Cornell Tech. I’ve been assured outside visitors will be allowed in:
partiful.com/e/8Cr73k5Y8c...
partiful.com/e/8Cr73k5Y8c...
RSVP to People in XR : Omer Shapira @NVIDIA | Partiful
"People in XR" is a series where we invite industry experts for honest conversations about the state of spatial computing, the role of generative AI in XR, and its future.
About the talk:
Are We The...
partiful.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Giving a talk tomorrow on the state of XR at Cornell Tech. I’ve been assured outside visitors will be allowed in:
partiful.com/e/8Cr73k5Y8c...
partiful.com/e/8Cr73k5Y8c...
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Mr. Miyazaki sir, I love your movies about how capitalism and the destruction of nature are evil, I made a shitty facsimile of them in a computer that drains reservoirs, do you like it
March 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Mr. Miyazaki sir, I love your movies about how capitalism and the destruction of nature are evil, I made a shitty facsimile of them in a computer that drains reservoirs, do you like it
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tfw when no Sigma GF :'(
February 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
tfw when no Sigma GF :'(
Logging on to tell the boys about radiant foaming.
Radiant Foam: Real-Time Differentiable Ray Tracing"
radfoam.github.io
radfoam.github.io
February 4, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Logging on to tell the boys about radiant foaming.
Boy if folks are mad about Brutalist wait until they find out 1/4 of the pixels in every Pixar film of the past 8 years was created with AI.
January 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Boy if folks are mad about Brutalist wait until they find out 1/4 of the pixels in every Pixar film of the past 8 years was created with AI.
I don't need it, but the UX on this physical color swatch system is insanely handsome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW8z...
Introducing Coloro's Physical Color Tools
YouTube video by Coloro
www.youtube.com
January 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I don't need it, but the UX on this physical color swatch system is insanely handsome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW8z...