Posts tagged “Meta”

My last day at Meta. Reflections on the journey, gratitude for the team, and anticipation for what's next.

After four years building VPS, I've decided to leave Meta. The reasoning, the emotions, and what comes next.

How large language models and generative AI are changing spatial computing - from scene understanding to content creation.

Three and a half years building VPS at Meta - from inception to platform. Considering what's next.

Quest 3 brings VPS to mainstream consumers - the largest deployment yet and what we learned.

Bringing visual positioning to consumer smart glasses - extreme power constraints and new use cases.

Quest 3's improved hardware creates opportunities for VPS - better cameras, more compute, and MR-first design.

VPS evolved from concept to platform in two years - reflecting on the journey, the team, and what's next.

Launching VPS as part of Quest Pro's mixed reality system - integration challenges, launch metrics, and lessons.

Enabling users to contribute to mapping - the technical architecture, privacy model, and quality challenges.

How Quest Pro's mixed reality capabilities change the requirements for visual positioning - higher accuracy, lower latency, always-on.

Using neural representations to dramatically compress 3D maps - enabling device-side map storage and faster queries.

Reflecting on a year of building Visual Positioning Service - shipped product, scaled team, lessons learned.

Growing a team 3x in one year - hiring, onboarding, structure, and maintaining culture through rapid growth.

What it takes to run ML in production at scale - monitoring, versioning, deployment, and all the things that aren't training.

Why indoor localization is fundamentally harder than outdoor - GPS absence, feature similarity, and the path forward.

Adapting visual positioning for smart glasses form factor - different sensors, different constraints, different use cases.

From 50 to 500 mapped locations - the operational challenges of scaling 3D mapping worldwide.

Launching the first version of Visual Positioning Service to external developers - what worked, what didn't, and what we learned.

How to localize without compromising privacy - on-device processing, feature design, and differential privacy approaches.

Using high-fidelity simulation to design and validate perception hardware before silicon exists - extending synthetic data to hardware design.

Maps go stale as the world changes. Strategies for detecting and handling changes in visual positioning.

Moving from hand-crafted to learned feature descriptors for VPS - training, deployment, and performance gains.

The challenges of bringing visual positioning to Quest headsets - power, latency, and the cloud-device split.

Half a year in - what I've learned about operating at Meta scale and building VPS from inception.

Bringing synthetic data practices from Magic Leap to Meta - what scales, what doesn't, and new opportunities.

The technical pipeline for localizing a device using visual features - retrieval, matching, and pose estimation.

Building 3D maps of the entire world - data sources, quality challenges, and the path to coverage.

High-level architecture of the Visual Positioning Service - how XR devices can localize themselves in the world.

First impressions joining Meta's Reality Labs to lead Visual Positioning Service - different scale, familiar problems.