We make a clone version of the Zuppa Tuscana soup at home, of that's any indication. 🙂

Oh are they showing Sunshine? I haven't seen that movie in ages.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned (though I'm still catching up on coverage): Is the Frame's grayscale pass-through currently depth corrected?

Good, instant pass-through has become an important usability feature. I could get by without color, but it's a bigger deal to me than I first expected.

You have chosen.... Wisely

Hard same. This series in general was a blast to work on, but this game was actually really special. Great times and memories.

We were actually hushed when the into movie came in, and immediately had to watch it again.

But if the production schedule makes you speed up, then slow down, then speed up, only to have to show down again, then you defenestrate.

Thanks for your (continued!) insights 🙂 Figures like this are definitely one place where I'm trying to grow my knowledge.

In general, does a number like that come from digging through GPU hardware documentation, or just from testing a bunch?

From what I gather, it's more like "be mindful of what part is usually slow," like when Ben mentions hiding the fetch cost by doing other work while waiting.

Like much-avoided shader conditionals: uniform branches are really cheap since every fragment is the same; branching on noise much less so.

Sequential frame stereoscopy

I was busy making rendering going 1 ms faster on the Switch GPU, and didn't see it until now.

Pretty happy with how I spent my day, honestly.

Whether file serialization/parsing (typically save data) is done using the Invariant Culture has become one of the first things we look at now while evaluating a C# codebase for console release or co-dev.

Not just numbers, but also capitalization in Turkish. IFKYK.

Oh my god dude, so sorry to hear that. That's crushing in so many ways.

Scum of the Earth.

"Understood Quaternions"

My read is that vibe coding is software engineers (or wannabe engineers) discovering tools for making messy hacked together prototypes to validate an idea with poor code, and then pushing that to production with minimal testing.

Excuse me but that is a game designer's job.

Hell yeah!

This insightful comment brought to you by me, during my lunch break.

Honestly probably Quest 3, because of how well-rounded it is. I do absolutely have a lot of sentimental nostalgia for the CV1, DK1, and my first-ever personal HMD, the eMagin Z800.