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.

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. 😉

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.

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

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.