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Morgan McGuire - Gone Sailing! Now on the Salish Sea. Known for Roblox, NVIDIA, Pasteur Labs, Graphics Codex, Markdeep, G3D, Skylanders, E Ink, Titan Quest, Vicarious Visions, Unity, Activision, Williams, Waterloo, Quadplay, Computer Graphics

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morgan @morgan3d.bsky.social · Jan 8

My final post as Chief Scientist at Roblox, looking back at our company's amazing R&D success in 3D and AI over the past four years:

www.linkedin.com/posts/morgan...

Morgan McGuire on LinkedIn: Roblox delivers on technical innovation as a leader in the industry on our…

Roblox delivers on technical innovation as a leader in the industry on our path to enabling billions of users to come together to play, learn, communicate…

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Esther Lin @estheroate.bsky.social · Sep 9

Every lens leaves a blur signature—a hidden fingerprint in every photo.

In our new #TPAMI paper, we show how to learn it fast (5 mins of capture!) with Lens Blur Fields ✨

With it, we can tell apart ‘identical’ phones by their optics, deblur images, and render realistic blurs.

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morgan @morgan3d.bsky.social · Sep 10

This and lightweight XR glasses have been an OK partial solution for me. Neither is perfect--if you don't wear corrective lenses (or at least if you have contacts) they might be much better. I'm still looking for a good solution. Projector was my first attempt and it had different drawbacks.

morgan @morgan3d.bsky.social · Sep 2

A key catch is that these slightly minify objects (or maybe you hold them further away). They're good for large crafts and OK for reading and laptop but I needed a larger font. Weight on the nose after about 30 min is an issue if upright. I wasn't brave enough to try it for cooking or other cutting.

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · Aug 29

The scenery at Zion National Park in Utah, USA, is truly breathtaking! #FridayFeeling #FridayMorning

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morgan @morgan3d.bsky.social · Aug 29

Because of my spinal injury, I was thinking that I wish I could have upside down belaying glasses so that I can hold a book or phone comfortably again and...this product exists, and is really inexpensive! They're called "lazy glasses" or "crochet glasses".

Now to find out how well it works for me.

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morgan @morgan3d.bsky.social · Aug 20

The magic of B.C. at the end of summer #sailing

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · Aug 8

Square sails clearly follow a variant of the "New Version-final-new-revision-last" naming convention

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morgan @morgan3d.bsky.social · Aug 9

I promise to do no computer graphics without you for 48 hours.

morgan @morgan3d.bsky.social · Aug 8

More scenes from the sea this week #sailing

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morgan @morgan3d.bsky.social · Aug 8

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...

du Maurier is like, right there, people...

Rebecca (novel) - Wikipedia

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Wenzel Jakob @wjakob.bsky.social · Aug 8

My lab will be recruiting at all levels. PhD students, postdocs, and a research engineering position (worldwide for PhD/postdoc, EU candidates only for the engineering position). If you're at SIGGRAPH, I'd love to talk to you if you are interested in any of these.

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morgan @morgan3d.bsky.social · Aug 3

I put a massive number of changes in today's release of the new version of the #quadplay retro fantasy video game console. Available now at:

morgan3d.github.io/quadplay/

The main focus of these changes was mobile: new aspect ratios, new battery saving optimizations, new exported game UI options.

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · Aug 2

I didn't realize we were trying to keep it a secret

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morgan @morgan3d.bsky.social · Aug 2

20kts of wind makes for a lot of miles put away!

I just marvel at the free energy of wind and current--I'm moving my *home* around with minimal effort, cost, and environmental impact, while sitting here making a sandwich and coffee enjoying the ride.

#sailing

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morgan @morgan3d.bsky.social · Aug 1

#sailing

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Kostas Anagnostou @kostasanagnostou.bsky.social · Jul 31

Worth watching presentation, also provides some background info on how ReSTIR came to be and where it is heading: "ReSTIR: Traveling the Path of Reuse" www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRg9...

I3D 2025 Chris Wyman's Keynote "ReSTIR: Traveling the Path of Reuse"

YouTube video by I3D Symposium

www.youtube.com

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Mary Kenney @marykgames.com · Jul 31

My team is hiring again!

We've got two jobs posted: EXPERT and SENIOR writer. In our org chart, Expert is a click above Senior and focused on craft. Senior owns big parts of the game and could eventually be promoted to a direction- or craft-focused role.

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morgan @morgan3d.bsky.social · Jul 31

#sailing

morgan @morgan3d.bsky.social · Jul 27

Monospace for code vs. the surrounding proportional fonts is exactly the use case I care about as well.

I'll investigate putting this in the default Markdeep stylesheet, which will also make it easier to override a single font without having to restyle everything.

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Red Blob Games @redblobgames.com · Jul 26

matklad.github.io/2025/07/16/f... convinced me to try the "font-size-adjust" feature — it's now live on redblobgames.com . I'm using it to to keep the body text and code (monospace) text matched.

caniuse.com?search=font-... shows Firefox (partial) support started in 2008, Chrome in 2024.

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morgan @morgan3d.bsky.social · Jul 27

The business goal is to become 10% of the world wide gaming market, so I know it's close to everyone's heart. The labels on any given thing definitely change a lot to hit the broadest set of users and programs.

I'm personally happy just calling everything interactive a "game" everywhere.

morgan @morgan3d.bsky.social · Jul 24

Do you play Grow a Garden?

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morgan @morgan3d.bsky.social · Jul 24

When I'm playing! I'm semi-retired now. I spend most of my time at sea except for some advising of other tech and game companies.

morgan @morgan3d.bsky.social · Jul 19

Indeed, something like that! We'll see if the wind and waves favor my actually arriving in Vancouver during SIGGRAPH week. The odds are currently about 20%. I've been eyeing both English Bay/False Creek and several local marinas as places to set up shop. But the weather may not cooperate.

morgan @morgan3d.bsky.social · Jul 19

Unusually calm Salish Sea off the WA coast #sailing

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