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Valve @valvesoftware.com · 14/09/2026

Steam Frame is here! Our wireless VR headset + controllers, available now in the following models: Steam Frame 256GB Steam Frame 1TB Sign up now and learn more on @steampowered.com : store.steampowered.com/hardware/ste...

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 07/09/2026

I paddle back from my statement, if this is actually what's happening:

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 06/09/2026

DLSS5 technical report is available: research.nvidia.com/labs/adlr/fi...

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's really hard to beat this for a practical, worked example of how modern CPU/memory architectures affect performance. It describes the issues with (and corresponding solutions for) a simple matrix transpose: gudok.xyz/transpose/.

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What it takes to transpose a matrix

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/08/2026

Pathetic -- Google is now referring to Lake Ontario as "Lake America"

screencap of Google Maps showing "Lake America"

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 28/08/2026

I finally get why people call this conference a family. @ecvp.bsky.social #ecvp

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 27/08/2026

Hey @ecvp.bsky.social thanks for joining the material perception session. I have uploaded my slides to my website: engramm.ing/journal/rese... Also, if you want to reuse any assets from the talk, please write me a DM so I can give you the edit password for the files. #ecvp2026 1/2

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[ECVP26] Talk: Applications of Physically Based Differentiable Rendering in Vision Science・エングラム

Physically Based Rendering (PBR) is the physical simulation of light transport within a scene, i.e., how light participates in events such as reflections, refractions and scattering when interacting w...

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 27/08/2026

Good morning @ecvp.bsky.social. Sadly, the conference is already nearing its end, but @lschmittwilken.bsky.social still has something nice for you! So now you have a date: 10:30 in the Active Vision and Visual Salience session (Bayview Suite). Have a great day everyone! :) #ecvp2026

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 26/08/2026

G'day @ecvp.bsky.social, it's time for another treat: Lina will present her poster on "Causality perception under visual uncertainty" at W1AM2. In the afternoon, I will be giving my first in-person talk in the Material Perception session about differentiable rendering in vision science. #ECVP2026

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 25/08/2026

Hey @ecvp.bsky.social we got twice the fun for you today (order of visit recommended): T5AM6 Swantje will talk about Dead Leaves stimuli with which you can model natural image statistics. T5AM1 @lreining.bsky.social will talk about how to segment these dead leaves, testing NNs for optimality.

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 24/08/2026

goooooood mornin‘ @ecvp.bsky.social! If you are an early bird and you like to see something and talk about multi focal display, or just want to know how to easily implement your experiments on one, go ahead and pay Tarek a visit at M3AM1 :) #ecvp26

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Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

TU Darmstadt's Perception Lab is at #ECVP2026 in force. We hope you can make it to see our work! @engramm.ing @lreining.bsky.social @lschmittwilken.bsky.social

A graphic depicting the times that TU Darmstadt's Perception Lab members have posters at the European Conference on Visual Perception, 2026.

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ECVP 2026 @ecvp.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

🎉 TODAY’S THE DAY! 🎉 #ECVP2026 begins today in Bournemouth! 👁️🧠 We’re ready for a fantastic week of vision science, workshops, talks, symposia, posters and plenty of opportunities to connect with the ECVP community. Welcome to ECVP 2026 — let’s get started! 🚀 #VisionScience #Perception

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Lars C. Reining @lreining.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Excited this is finally out! I am happy to have built this together with Rabea Turon, @tsawallis.bsky.social and all the others!🎉

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 03/08/2026

Happy to announce that MRD got accepted by the Journal of Vision (marks the first submission of my phd). Thanks to all editors and reviewers making the paper better over time. If you don't want to wait for the official JoV version, I updated the preprint & repo with the latest code and results.

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 28/07/2026

We got rogue AI before GTA6. Three 0-days in a weekend. Where's my blackwall? www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2KC...

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Did an AI Really Hack Hugging Face?

YouTube video by LiveOverflow

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Stephen Hill @selfshadow.com · 27/07/2026

SIGGRAPH 2026 links: blog.selfshadow.com/2026/07/26/s.... I'll continue to add to the list as more things show up online.

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SIGGRAPH 2026 Links

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 25/07/2026

It is fucking horrendous what happened today at the Berlin Pride Parade. Kinda sucks that hate progresses quicker than tolerance and acceptance. Currently only German news: www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesel... TL;DR some sicko drove into a group of people after the demonstration. 1 dead person.

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Berliner CSD abgebrochen - mutmaßlich Fahrzeug in Menschenmenge gefahren

Der Berliner Christopher Street Day ist abgebrochen worden. Laut Polizei ist mutmaßlich ein Fahrzeug in eine Menschenmenge gefahren, mehrere Menschen seien verletzt.

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 20/07/2026

We actually get to witness Nvidia open sourcing their Neural Appearance Models in this lifetime. Thanks for finally dropping the guesswork reimplementing all of that. github.com/NVlabs/neura... Their new SIGGRAPH is also out: research.nvidia.com/labs/rtr/pub...

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GitHub - NVlabs/neuralappearance

Contribute to NVlabs/neuralappearance development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 14/07/2026

After the neural material/shading talks at EGSR, I was wondering if there's a need for a package to facilitate this type of research. It would be nice to have a package with reusable building blocks and a set of reimplementations to benchmark against. This is currently what I am working on. 1/5

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 07/07/2026

Just wrapped up implementing ボンド's path space API. Previously, I had a loop that constructed the path incrementally without storing the vertices. Now, the whole path is created at once and then evaluated. While this is still a unidirectional case, it would enable me to implement BDPT next.

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 07/07/2026

Just seeing that @guerrilla.bsky.social has a new tab in their nav bar pointing to the Decima engine: www.guerrilla-games.com/decima I don't want to hypothesise, but if that means that the engine is being released at one point, we could see serious competition on the market for UE, Unity and Godot.

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We create awe-inspiring worlds - Guerrilla

Guerrilla is one of Europe's leading game companies and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe. We started in 2003, and have pushed the boundaries of technical and artistic...

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 04/07/2026

#EGSR26 has come to an end, and I am sad it is already over. Tons of interesting chats, nice, approachable people, and overall just a great experience. Thanks to the organisers for making this possible; looking forward to next year in Lugano! My highlights: 1/5

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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 30/06/2026

For years we have been overwhelmed by the volume of code contributions we have to review, especially from new contributors. AI has made the problem much worse. That's why we are taking steps to reduce the burden on maintainers while still welcoming new contributors: godotengine.org/article/cont...

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Changes to our Contribution Policies – Godot Engine

Godot is growing fast, so here is how we are dealing with the huge increase in contributions.

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 29/06/2026

See you at MANER/EGSR tomorrow! :)

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Delio Vicini @deliovicini.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I'm excited to share the open-source release of hdMitsuba, a USD Hydra delegate for the Mitsuba 3 renderer. By leveraging the Hydra API, this project brings Mitsuba directly into OpenUSD workflows. The GIF below shows interactive rendering within usdview. 🧵

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Wenzel Jakob @wjakob.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I am excited to announce Dr.Jit 1.4 and Mitsuba 3.9 which now feature GPU-accelerated compute/ray tracing on Apple Silicon. Significant optimizations in both projects accelerate tracing/code generation ~2x. They generate better code and have faster Python bindings.🧵

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 25/06/2026

embree goes brrrr... (so yes, just refactored my acceleration structure into its own plugin, so I can easily swap out different backends).

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 24/06/2026

One nice thing about having the interactive part of the renderer done is having fun with materials. Implemented a couple of diffuse models recently: Lambert, Oren Nayar, EON, d'Eon 21 fast, d'Eon 21 full model

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 21/06/2026

Made ボンド interactive! Some AOV/debug views included. In the process, I also included OIDN, which runs during "interactive mode" on the beauty plate. In render mode, it runs after the final sample. Convenience: Would be to be able to pause and resume from a checkpoint. 1/3

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 19/06/2026

Went back to C++ and got stuff done on my renderer, which I officially call now: ボンド (because Bond in Spy x Family is the best doggo spy-x-family.fandom.com/wiki/Bond_Fo...). I implemented the preview window, in which we accumulate the samples in a framebuffer and draw for each updated tile. 1/3

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 13/06/2026

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by ANY FOREIGN NATIONAL, WHETHER INSIDE OR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING FOREIGN NATIONAL ANTHROPIC EMPLOYEES. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m... 1/n

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Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 11/06/2026

It is an understatement how much "fun" in your tooling can drive your motivation to get stuff done. I like C++, but sometimes writing it in my free time can feel very demanding. I started writing Zig last week, and it saves me from a lot of headaches that C has. Zig is literally: WYSIWYG. 1/n

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 08/06/2026

Happy to announce that after VSS, I will be giving another talk this year @ecvp.bsky.social. In my talk, "Applications of Physically Based Differentiable Rendering in Vision Science", I'm going to talk about the challenges and potential of PBDR in vision science, framed in our experiences. #ECVP26

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 07/06/2026

What is upppp!? AION 2 announcement for September this year. And Guild Wars 3 for next year's fall. 😱 Seems like I will finally get another life span as a spiritmaster in the sequel in my first ever MMO. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ_z... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITPz...

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[AION 2] | Launch Reveal Trailer

YouTube video by AION 2 Official

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 29/05/2026

Zig Hydra delegate is up and running. To be fair, it looks "better" than the Rust solution, but that is probably me writing non-idiomatic Rust (not that I claim I am proficient in Zig either).

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 29/05/2026

I'm annoyed @patagonia.com. If you start suing people who are environmentalists, activists, and getting people off-screen by encouraging them to go on a hike, you are very wrong. I can already smell Yvon's disappointment. You can do better. Drop the lawsuit. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

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Patagonia sues drag queen Pattie Gonia for trademark infringement

Outdoor clothing company is suing US environmentalist drag performer for $1 plus legal fees, claiming ‘we wish we didn’t have to do this’

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 28/05/2026

I’ve seen @andykelley.bsky.social called a lot of nice and ugly things. But damn, he makes a whole lotta sense if you give him the time and space to explain himself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqdd... We need people like him in today's world.

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Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub & Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 - Andrew Kelley Explains

YouTube video by JetBrains

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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 27/05/2026

After reading www.janwalter.org/jekyll/rende... I wanted to write a general @openusd.bsky.social Hydra delegate bridge that other languages can bind to. After a couple of weeks, I finally have two tests up and running: Jan Walter's pbrt-rs and a custom Rust render pass. 1/n

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