INVENTORY

Public artifacts, each listed with what it is and why it exists. Short rather than padded — everything here is real, and the patent can be verified without taking our word for any of it.

Patent

Computer-implemented systems and methods for generating enhanced motion data and rendering objects

US 12,380,621 B2 · Issued 2025-08-05

A method for capturing performance that reacts to a live simulated world, rather than recording motion in isolation and reconciling it with the world afterward. It exists because the gap between a performer and the world they are performing inside is the central problem this organization was formed to work on. Granted and published; the full specification is public at the USPTO.

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Thesis

Role Playing LLC — company thesis

PDF · 8 pages · Revised 2026-07-16

What the organization is for, why the problem is tractable now, and why film, engineering, and defense turn out to be the same problem viewed from different sides. Written for someone deciding whether the work is serious. It argues the premise rather than describing the machinery.

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Essay

On systems, games, and the name

Founder's account

How the founder's method for understanding unfamiliar systems was built — by inhabiting worlds through games and paying attention to why they behave the way they do — and how that habit led to a research organization named after it. It explains the name, which is otherwise easy to mistake for whimsy.

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