NVidia’s “lens matched shading” API (VR…)
https://developer.nvidia.com/lens-matched-shading-and-unreal-engine-4-integration-part-1
This is different than what AMD does, it employs a clever trick that hinges on a linear modification of w as a function of x,y

A retrospective of Apple’s Metal
http://zeuxcg.org/2016/12/01/metal-retrospective/
Related: Let’s close the buffer zoo
http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=1260

Stephanie Hurlburt’s collection of talks
http://stephaniehurlburt.com/talksworkshops/

Missed this, but apparently latest NSight supports DX12 (and Vulkan, plus other things)
https://developer.nvidia.com/nsight-visual-studio-edition-52-released-oculus-and-vulkan-support-direct3d-12-profiling-and-3

Hybrid fur rendering (volumetric/shells + strands)
http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~jerf/papers/hybrid_fur_lowres.pdf

FXGuide article series on facial R&D

Disney R&D https://www.fxguide.com/featured/face-me-part-3-high-end-faces-rd-from-disney-research/
Digital avatars https://www.fxguide.com/featured/face-me-part-2-make-me-an-avatar-from-a-selfie/
Texture from single photo https://www.fxguide.com/featured/face-me-part-1-photorealistic-facial-texture-from-a-single-still/

Also these were interesting, from FXGuide:

Marc Reynolds has been on a roll lately with projections and mappings

Cube/Cylinder/Ball mappings http://marc-b-reynolds.github.io/math/2017/01/27/CubeBall.html
Uniform random 3d rotations http://marc-b-reynolds.github.io/distribution/2017/01/27/UniformRot.html
Higher density uniform floats http://marc-b-reynolds.github.io/distribution/2017/01/17/DenseFloat.html
Square/Disc mappings http://marc-b-reynolds.github.io/math/2017/01/08/SquareDisc.html

Fourier interpolation (IQ)
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4lGSDw

DNN corner:

A CNN trained to learn fluid dynamics http://cims.nyu.edu/~schlacht/CNNFluids.htm
DNN image approximation (just for fun) https://github.com/schenker/image-learner/
CNN for raster vectorization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MfG9CDufPA

Screen-space reflections in Killing Floor 2
https://sakibsaikia.github.io/2016/12/26/Screen-Space-Reflection-in-Killing-Floor-2.html
Few cute triks, especially the idea (not novel, but well illustrated) of using a depth pyramid to accelerate marching

Motion matching from Ubisoft.
Another presentation on their approximation of motion fields
http://www.gameanim.com/2017/01/24/motion-matching-future-gameplay-animation-today/

Hashed alpha (I3D17)
A simple idea, using alpha testing and alpha-to-coverage with randomized thresholds to avoid issues with disappearing thin features
http://cwyman.org/papers/i3d17_hashedAlpha.pdf

Depth linearization for arbitrary (non parallel) frustums
http://jcgt.org/published/0005/04/03/

Hacking the PS4.
Impressive, they wrote a CP disassembler!
https://fail0verflow.com/media/33c3-slides/#/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AoHGJ1g9aM
https://github.com/fail0verflow/radeon-tools/blob/master/f32/f32dis.py
http://www.siliconkit.com/pragmatic/RAI/bonaire.rai

AMD Shader compiler control API (gives control on async shader compilation)
http://gpuopen.com/ags-5-0-shader-compiler-controls/
AMD blog post on memory coalescing
http://gpuopen.com/gcn-memory-coalescing/

Bringing wide color to Instagram (iPhone 7)
https://engineering.instagram.com/bringing-wide-color-to-instagram-5a5481802d7d#.nypqstve2

HDR in Infamous Second Son
They use the ACES RRT, I still don’t know why that makes sense…
http://www.glowybits.com/blog/2017/01/04/ifl_iss_hdr_1/
http://www.glowybits.com/blog/2016/12/21/ifl_iss_hdr_2/

Voxel Based Realtime GI
Master’s thesis. Implementation and comparison of many different algorithms.
http://www4.di.uminho.pt/~arf/supervision/DanielGomesVoxelRendering.pdf

Mocap with sparse sensors (Disney research)
A strong prior corrects the mocap done with few, noisy sensors.
http://www.gameanim.com/2016/12/30/real-time-physics-based-motion-capture-sparse-sensors/

Procedural content generation in games
http://pcgbook.com/

History of RGB color model
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AndreasBrinck/20161208/286891/History_of_the_RGB_color_model.php

Screen-space shadows & Z-writing POM
https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/wip-se-screen-space-shadows.441909/

Spherical Illuminance Composition for Real-Time Indirect Illumination
Master’s thesis. A fast radiosity-type algorithm
http://www.davidkuri.de/downloads/SIC-GI.pdf

Stingray (ex-bitsquid) renderer overview
http://bitsquid.blogspot.ca/2017/02/stingray-renderer-walkthrough.html
http://bitsquid.blogspot.ca/2017/02/stingray-renderer-walkthrough-2.html