Setting up an augmented-reality experience requires more than just putting a collection of virtual objects into the world. The user’s experience is important: how do the visuals, the controls, and the sound contribute to the overall impression that we want to convey? For the HoloLens Games Institute virtual tour app, I wanted the visual elements of… Read More Holodeck Shader
The reality or your problem is uglier and more complex than you think it is. But it also contains a solution.… Read More Uncovering Complexity : Adventures in System-Fixing
This project was aimed at representing and rendering volumetric spaces. Written in Rust, my intention was to see how easy it would be to write a high-performance voxel-rendering engine from the ground up.… Read More Voxel Engines and the Surprising Utility of Software Rendering Knowledge
Changing how you think is both the hardest and the most necessary step in making a real improvement. And there are payoffs: the AI for Rival Books of Aster is both conceptually simple and non-reductive. It doesn’t always win, but it plays reasonably well; and even more importantly, it was constructed in less than 3 person-months of work.… Read More The Rival Books of Aster AI
Server programming for Rival Books of Aster was an exercise in both development and experimentation. I don’t know whether I made the right decisions or not, but it worked.… Read More Programming a Collectible-Card Game
Singletons and global variables need to be rethought in a multithreaded environment.… Read More Rust and the Cloneable Globals Pattern
Toward lifelike behaviour for augmented-reality NPCs.… Read More Game Characters and the HoloLens
