Omer Shapira
@omershapira.com
Graphics ∩ Vision, Electronic Elsewheres. AI-Mediated Reality & Interaction Research @ NVIDIA; previously: Omniverse XR and Robotics, much before that VR, VFX & TV.
Thinkpiece Piñata & Artist inbetween.
Opinions? No
📍Brooklyn/TLV
https://omershapira.com
Thinkpiece Piñata & Artist inbetween.
Opinions? No
📍Brooklyn/TLV
https://omershapira.com
4 layers of black stain, 4 layers of various walnut stains, 4 layers of tung oil and 4 layers of wax later: I’m really really scared to drill the final pieces into place.
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
4 layers of black stain, 4 layers of various walnut stains, 4 layers of tung oil and 4 layers of wax later: I’m really really scared to drill the final pieces into place.
Building a guitar from some CAD files and industrial parts. Shockingly simple if you already have a neck
November 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Building a guitar from some CAD files and industrial parts. Shockingly simple if you already have a neck
Paper snip of me w/ the IDF high commander, printed Aug. 5 2005.
I volunteered to participate in the removal of Israeli settlements in the Gaza strip. I thought I could do nothing more important for the future of coexistence.
Today, exactly 20 yrs later, Netanyahu reversed this move.
Heartbroken.
I volunteered to participate in the removal of Israeli settlements in the Gaza strip. I thought I could do nothing more important for the future of coexistence.
Today, exactly 20 yrs later, Netanyahu reversed this move.
Heartbroken.
August 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Paper snip of me w/ the IDF high commander, printed Aug. 5 2005.
I volunteered to participate in the removal of Israeli settlements in the Gaza strip. I thought I could do nothing more important for the future of coexistence.
Today, exactly 20 yrs later, Netanyahu reversed this move.
Heartbroken.
I volunteered to participate in the removal of Israeli settlements in the Gaza strip. I thought I could do nothing more important for the future of coexistence.
Today, exactly 20 yrs later, Netanyahu reversed this move.
Heartbroken.
Saw Oasis in Manchester. The entire city (and country) was consumed with it. 15% of the audience (80k/night) wore bucket hats. Musically, it was amazing. Otherwise it felt like late FleetwoodMac. Liam and Noel did not exchange a single word. Liam spoke to the audience, Noel just wanted to go home
July 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Saw Oasis in Manchester. The entire city (and country) was consumed with it. 15% of the audience (80k/night) wore bucket hats. Musically, it was amazing. Otherwise it felt like late FleetwoodMac. Liam and Noel did not exchange a single word. Liam spoke to the audience, Noel just wanted to go home
loss functions are getting impractically specific
June 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
loss functions are getting impractically specific
Big update from The Workshop on Computer Vision For Mixed Reality @ CVPR 2025:
📝 Papers and schedule are now up!
Our Speakers:
Richard Newcombe (Meta)
Anjul Patney (NVIDIA)
Rana Hanocka (UChicago)
Laura Leal-Taixe (NVIDIA)
Margarita Grinvald (Meta)
📅 June 11, 8AM 📍Room 109.
cv4mr.github.io
📝 Papers and schedule are now up!
Our Speakers:
Richard Newcombe (Meta)
Anjul Patney (NVIDIA)
Rana Hanocka (UChicago)
Laura Leal-Taixe (NVIDIA)
Margarita Grinvald (Meta)
📅 June 11, 8AM 📍Room 109.
cv4mr.github.io
June 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Big update from The Workshop on Computer Vision For Mixed Reality @ CVPR 2025:
📝 Papers and schedule are now up!
Our Speakers:
Richard Newcombe (Meta)
Anjul Patney (NVIDIA)
Rana Hanocka (UChicago)
Laura Leal-Taixe (NVIDIA)
Margarita Grinvald (Meta)
📅 June 11, 8AM 📍Room 109.
cv4mr.github.io
📝 Papers and schedule are now up!
Our Speakers:
Richard Newcombe (Meta)
Anjul Patney (NVIDIA)
Rana Hanocka (UChicago)
Laura Leal-Taixe (NVIDIA)
Margarita Grinvald (Meta)
📅 June 11, 8AM 📍Room 109.
cv4mr.github.io
Found my mom’s only online copy of her dissertation, “Computer Reconstruction of Bodies Bounded by Quadric Surfaces from a Set of Imperfect Projections”, on a .mil website, and realized the industry is still improving on solutions she pioneered.
Happy Mothers’ day.
apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA...
Happy Mothers’ day.
apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA...
May 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Found my mom’s only online copy of her dissertation, “Computer Reconstruction of Bodies Bounded by Quadric Surfaces from a Set of Imperfect Projections”, on a .mil website, and realized the industry is still improving on solutions she pioneered.
Happy Mothers’ day.
apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA...
Happy Mothers’ day.
apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA...
The problem is: a guitar for pop music needs to look like a guitar for pop music. I have several. My favorite is a Johnny Marr Signature Jaguar, which I’m twinsies with Taylor Swift for playing. This guitar, however, looks like it’s going through a rough divorce and is about to lose custody.
April 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The problem is: a guitar for pop music needs to look like a guitar for pop music. I have several. My favorite is a Johnny Marr Signature Jaguar, which I’m twinsies with Taylor Swift for playing. This guitar, however, looks like it’s going through a rough divorce and is about to lose custody.
Thing is, pickup configurations can usually nail 1-2 good tones. This guitar, nails *many*. it does that with clever wiring: the 2 pickups are actually 4 (so far normal), and they can be connected in many different ways, including a special mode where some outputs have a passive bandpass filter.
April 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Thing is, pickup configurations can usually nail 1-2 good tones. This guitar, nails *many*. it does that with clever wiring: the 2 pickups are actually 4 (so far normal), and they can be connected in many different ways, including a special mode where some outputs have a passive bandpass filter.
Yet another signature sound is the “full” sound based on a humbucking pickup (two pickups with opposite polarity, ‘bucking’ the ‘hum’ that many classic rock bands used for ‘warmth’. This has a sweet spot closer to the neck. I like using Franz Ferdinand’s fuzz guitar tone as an example.
April 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Yet another signature sound is the “full” sound based on a humbucking pickup (two pickups with opposite polarity, ‘bucking’ the ‘hum’ that many classic rock bands used for ‘warmth’. This has a sweet spot closer to the neck. I like using Franz Ferdinand’s fuzz guitar tone as an example.
Another “Signature” sound you may know is a “treble” single coil pickup at the bridge, where sound has many “tinny” overtones. Used frequently in country music and in tracks where you hear a strummed guitar cutting through the mix, this is the sound a Telecaster is known for. Here’s Graham Coxon’s.
April 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Another “Signature” sound you may know is a “treble” single coil pickup at the bridge, where sound has many “tinny” overtones. Used frequently in country music and in tracks where you hear a strummed guitar cutting through the mix, this is the sound a Telecaster is known for. Here’s Graham Coxon’s.
The other thing special about this one is the pickups: Pickups are normally designed to have a specific response curve, given some ref impedance. The wiring determines the filtering. The “Stratocaster” signature sound (think “Sultans of Swing”) is two pickups wired in parallel, cutting the mids.
April 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The other thing special about this one is the pickups: Pickups are normally designed to have a specific response curve, given some ref impedance. The wiring determines the filtering. The “Stratocaster” signature sound (think “Sultans of Swing”) is two pickups wired in parallel, cutting the mids.
The latter 2 reasons make it attractive to people who play real fast, hence they’re fitted with high SNR/high output pickups, have low “action” (distance string is suspended above fretboard), and are targeted towards metal players, so most of them are made to look like they have a cocaine problem.
April 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The latter 2 reasons make it attractive to people who play real fast, hence they’re fitted with high SNR/high output pickups, have low “action” (distance string is suspended above fretboard), and are targeted towards metal players, so most of them are made to look like they have a cocaine problem.
Fanned Fret guitars mean that instead of the frets being perpendicular to the strings, they meet them at an angle. To preserve the tuning, the strings have different lengths, like in a piano. It’s new tech. They’re hard to do because the fretboard is not flat, so the wire curving requires CNC:
April 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Fanned Fret guitars mean that instead of the frets being perpendicular to the strings, they meet them at an angle. To preserve the tuning, the strings have different lengths, like in a piano. It’s new tech. They’re hard to do because the fretboard is not flat, so the wire curving requires CNC:
I caved and bough an Ibanez SML721 fanned fret guitar. The guitar looks like it commits tax fraud, but it is the easiest instrument I ever played, and by far the most versatile. Can do a Strat ‘quack’, a Tele treble sound or a 72’ Tele neck humbucker sound like Franz Ferdinand. Next level shit
April 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I caved and bough an Ibanez SML721 fanned fret guitar. The guitar looks like it commits tax fraud, but it is the easiest instrument I ever played, and by far the most versatile. Can do a Strat ‘quack’, a Tele treble sound or a 72’ Tele neck humbucker sound like Franz Ferdinand. Next level shit
The thing about these works that I didn’t know until seeing them in Tel Aviv some years ago is that they’re a *little* small for ordinary people to walk inside. I wondered about this for a while, and it turned out that on top of being gay in a country not ready for it, he was also *very* tall.
April 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The thing about these works that I didn’t know until seeing them in Tel Aviv some years ago is that they’re a *little* small for ordinary people to walk inside. I wondered about this for a while, and it turned out that on top of being gay in a country not ready for it, he was also *very* tall.
The Fujifilm GFX100RF is proper weird. “Compact”, w/a sensor so big (44x33 @ 102MP) that the last 4 optical elements are magnifiers(!), pancake lenses @ fixed 28mm(equiv) and f4 (no surprise seeing the magnifiers). *no stabilizer whysoever*. Many reasons to hate it, but I’m totally going to get one.
March 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The Fujifilm GFX100RF is proper weird. “Compact”, w/a sensor so big (44x33 @ 102MP) that the last 4 optical elements are magnifiers(!), pancake lenses @ fixed 28mm(equiv) and f4 (no surprise seeing the magnifiers). *no stabilizer whysoever*. Many reasons to hate it, but I’m totally going to get one.
The funniest thing I ever did was condition my doing an interview in a student paper on them adding this to my bio:
March 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM
The funniest thing I ever did was condition my doing an interview in a student paper on them adding this to my bio:
Ken Shirriff (@righto.com) claims [1] the nickname THE MOTHER OF ALL DEMOS was only given to Engelbart's demo by Andy Grove in the 1991 Comdex keynote, referencing Saddam Hussein's expression at the time, MOTHER OF ALL WARS.
Google n-grams seems to back this up.
[1] www.righto.com/2025/03/moth...
Google n-grams seems to back this up.
[1] www.righto.com/2025/03/moth...
March 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Ken Shirriff (@righto.com) claims [1] the nickname THE MOTHER OF ALL DEMOS was only given to Engelbart's demo by Andy Grove in the 1991 Comdex keynote, referencing Saddam Hussein's expression at the time, MOTHER OF ALL WARS.
Google n-grams seems to back this up.
[1] www.righto.com/2025/03/moth...
Google n-grams seems to back this up.
[1] www.righto.com/2025/03/moth...
most of us, at some point of every passion.
March 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
most of us, at some point of every passion.
Another stab reading it this year: She describes how sorely needed twitter would’ve been in 1987, to commiserate directly with people who see your hard work and the human in you, which is exactly what we lost in the past few years.
(I checked, and she’s here now, @traceythorn.bsky.social. tyvm)
(I checked, and she’s here now, @traceythorn.bsky.social. tyvm)
March 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Another stab reading it this year: She describes how sorely needed twitter would’ve been in 1987, to commiserate directly with people who see your hard work and the human in you, which is exactly what we lost in the past few years.
(I checked, and she’s here now, @traceythorn.bsky.social. tyvm)
(I checked, and she’s here now, @traceythorn.bsky.social. tyvm)
Another part that really resonated with me: Having spent my entire adult life in relationships with partners who share my fields, sensibilities, and ambitions, and even breaking them off when those diverged - her way of describing a healthy collaborative lifestyle is grand.
March 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Another part that really resonated with me: Having spent my entire adult life in relationships with partners who share my fields, sensibilities, and ambitions, and even breaking them off when those diverged - her way of describing a healthy collaborative lifestyle is grand.