Tom Everaert

A quote that still keeps me awake, "Don't call them game engines. Unreal and Unity are like advanced UI toolkits."
Followed with a questioning rant from my side asking how they could possibly see physics, wind, etc as UI toolkit related. The whole "engine Y for Industry" license is to blame imo.

Gaussian Splatting Is Volvo’s Secret Ingredient For Safer Cars Modern car safety is all about automated accident prevention. Volvo reckons its Gaussian Splatting gives the advantage needed to keep its legacy as the safest brand.

Usually I have a hard time explaining to people what kind of rendering work there is in automotive that would require people from game dev to join the industry. This article is a good hint at a type of workload that benefits from hiring game devs for optimized use-cases, in my personal opinion.

Also, for those that have a good offer open to them to take a super-long-unknown-duration-sabatical from game dev, maybe worth thinking about it for the next few years

Pff, we worked together. You toooootally weren't the kindest most chill person every that was a pleasure to work with. But you tooooootally were a gym chad macho bruv. 😉

Discover Rivian’s new UE-powered infotainment center Explore how Rivian’s second generation R1 vehicles will expand its use of Unreal Engine from the driver’s display to the full infotainment center across its existing fleet.

for more details that are public, here are two articles from Rivian using Unreal in their cars.
www.unrealengine.com/en-US/spotli...
www.unrealengine.com/en-US/spotli...

You can sit in a car for a moment and very quickly realize just how much isn't just the compositor blitting a bunch of icons.

Got to be vague for obvious reasons. Those mountains are not flat images. Neither are the tubes and needles on the driver display. Each screen also has a mix of renderers layered on top of each other. Also, the driver display has stereoscopic rendering that is based on your head position.

Aside from that, amazing week and looking forward to the next edition.

Looking back to a fun week at the Graphics Programming Conference, one clear pattern whenever socializing with new folks emerged, everyone was both amazed but also horrified to an extent hearing about all the realtime 3D being done in recent cars and their respective systems.

If you're games industry and following some folks already, reply with who you are and what you do, and then re-post this or whatever it's called. Let's try and find each other on this new place

Hey I'm Tom, Expert Engineer/System Architect for rendering at Mercedes-Benz. Worked on things like Need For Speed, Sniper Elite and Forza. You may have bumped into me at the Graphics Programming Conference or some other one.

The entire site started to feel like we were on a subreddit dedicated to that individual. Strange.
Anyway, on to more interesting and fun things here instead

It's not absolutely horrible, we still have another chat tool that is allowed. But it's just a bit wild that any interaction I have needs breadcrumbs in the chat history just so I know which external partner I'm talking to

We're sun-setting our main chat tool in favor of another. All for data and privacy compliance reasons. The odd bit being, our external partners at first didn't get access, now they are allowed in. But all of them are listed as "Unknown User". I have no idea who I'm talking to for a week now.

Still got 3, I’ll dm you on Twitter

Or, in my case “guess I’ll go on this elaborate walk that conveniently passes by my favourite French pastry bakery”. At least it helps get the steps in between meetings.

One of the most shocking things to see outside of games is people treating engines as “just a renderer” that can easily run 20 times side by side on embedded systems.