Bio
Pete Isensee has been in the digital entertainment business since 1994. He's programmed video games, shipped three generations of Xbox consoles at Microsoft, created VR experiences at HBO, published dozens of technical articles, and taught C++ tips & tricks to game developers worldwide. Pete is currently a software engineering director at Reality Labs Research (previously Oculus Research), helping unlock the potential of virtual and augmented reality. He enjoys C++, jazz, wines and backpacking.
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Papers and Presentations
Sublime C++ for Games (download includes audio and other presentations from the 2006 Gamefest system track)
C++ on Next-Gen Consoles: Effective Code for New Architectures
Publications: Books
Best of Game Programming Gems, Multiple chapters.
Game Programming Gems 6. Chapter: Utilizing Multicore Processors with OpenMP.
Game Programming Gems 4. Network section editor. Chapter: Bit Packing: A Network Compression Technique.
Game Programming Gems 3. Chapters: Secure Sockets and Custom STL Allocators.
Updated STL allocator code that works on Visual Studio.NET is available. Copy the unzipped files to the same folder as the original files.
Game Programming Gems 2. Chapter: Genuine Random Number Generation
Game Programming Gems. Chapter: Fast Math Using C++ Template Metaprogramming
Publications: Magazines
MSDN Magazine. October 2005 Issue. Article: OpenMP and C++: Reap the Benefits of Multithreading Without All the Work. Co-authored with Kang Su Gatlin. Available online
Game Developer Magazine. March 2003 Issue. Article: Developing Online Console Games. Co-authored with Steve Ganem. Available online
Favorite Links
The technical sites I visit regularly are Ars Technica and Slashdot.
Gamasutra is the premier game developer site, with excellent articles and gaming news. I also frequent Blues News.
I’ve presented at the Game Developers Conference and I'm on the advisory board for XRDC.
Source Code
Updated Gems 3 allocator code (zipped C++ files)
STL Allocator test bed (zipped C++ files)
GDC 2003 custom allocators (zipped C++ files)
Last update Jan 2023
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