Abstract: Systems and methods for managing a presentation of a dynamic profile photo are provided. In particular, a server may receive contextual information associated with one or more users. The server may determine that the contextual information is consistent with a predetermined contextual action. In some examples, the server may identify a dynamic profile photo associated with the predetermined contextual information; and present, in response to the determination that the contextual information is consistent with the predetermined contextual action, the dynamic profile photo to the one or more users.

Abstract: Systems and methods for social networking using augmented reality are disclosed. A network may receive, from a plurality of client devices, a request to connect to a server. The server may be associated with an object, such as a landmark or a product. The server may serialize an AR world including the object and content associated with the object and send, to the plurality of client devices, data indicative of the AR world. The server via network may receive, from a first client device among the plurality of client devices, an indication of user input associated with the AR world. The indication of user input may comprise text data, digital image data, or user feedback. The indication of user input may be broadcast to the plurality of client devices.

Abstract: Systems and methods for social networking using augmented reality are disclosed. A network may receive, from a plurality of client devices, a request to connect to a server. The server may be associated with an object, such as a landmark or a product. The server may serialize an AR world including the object and content associated with the object and send, to the plurality of client devices, data indicative of the AR world. The server via network may receive, from a first client device among the plurality of client devices, an indication of user input associated with the AR world. The indication of user input may comprise text data, digital image data, or user feedback. The indication of user input may be broadcast to the plurality of client devices.

Abstract: In one embodiment described herein, a graphics engine with shader unit thread load balancing functionality executes shader instructions from multiple execution threads in a smaller number of execution threads by combining instructions from multiple threads at runtime. In one embodiment, multiple shader unit threads containing less than a minimum number of instructions are combined to minimize the discrepancy between the shortest and longest thread. In one embodiment, threads are merged when they contain a common output register.

Abstract: A graphics engine with shader unit thread serializing and instance unrolling functionality that executes multi-threaded shader logic in a single hardware thread is described. Hardware accelerated tessellation functionality is implemented utilizing programmable pipeline stages that allow custom, runtime configuration of graphics hardware utilizing programs compiled from a high level shader language that are executed using one or more shader execution cores. In one embodiment, multiple shader unit program threads are serialized to run in one hardware thread to allow a greater number of instructions to be executed on the shader cores and preserve hardware threads for primitive processing by other shader units.

Abstract: In one embodiment described herein, a graphics engine with shader unit thread load balancing functionality executes shader instructions from multiple execution threads in a smaller number of execution threads by combining instructions from multiple threads at runtime. In one embodiment, multiple shader unit threads containing less than a minimum number of instructions are combined to minimize the discrepancy between the shortest and longest thread. In one embodiment, threads are merged when they contain a common output register.

Abstract: In one embodiment described herein, a graphics engine with shader unit thread load balancing functionality executes shader instructions from multiple execution threads in a smaller number of execution threads by combining instructions from multiple threads at runtime. In one embodiment, multiple shader unit threads containing less than a minimum number of instructions are combined to minimize the discrepancy between the shortest and longest thread. In one embodiment, threads are merged when they contain a common output register.

Abstract: A graphics engine with shader unit thread serializing and instance unrolling functionality that executes multi-threaded shader logic in a single hardware thread is described. Hardware accelerated tessellation functionality is implemented utilizing programmable pipeline stages that allow custom, runtime configuration of graphics hardware utilizing programs compiled from a high level shader language that are executed using one or more shader execution cores. In one embodiment, multiple shader unit program threads are serialized to run in one hardware thread to allow a greater number of instructions to be executed on the shader cores and preserve hardware threads for primitive processing by other shader units.

Abstract: In one embodiment described herein, a graphics engine with shader unit thread load balancing functionality executes shader instructions from multiple execution threads in a smaller number of execution threads by combining instructions from multiple threads at runtime. In one embodiment, multiple shader unit threads containing less than a minimum number of instructions are combined to minimize the discrepancy between the shortest and longest thread. In one embodiment, threads are merged when they contain a common output register.