The concept of ray tracing has been bandied about for more than a generation. Since 1968, it has been viewed as a promising technology, especially for visual arts disciplines and, in particular, the ...

Check out more TechXchange Talks videos. Imagination Technologies is in the GPU business and ray tracing is one of the hottest technologies these days. The company has divided up the implementation of ...

3D graphics are made up of little more than very complicated math. With enough time, you could probably compute a ray marching by hand. Or, you could set up Excel to do it for you! Ray marching is a ...

Special hardware units handle ray traversal, freeing up the GPU shaders. While video game consoles have finally reached the age of ray tracing, performing those graphical calculations in real time can ...

3D graphics are made up of little more than very complicated math. With enough time, you could probably compute a ray marching by hand. Or, you could set up Excel to do it for you! Ray marching is a ...

After decades of work, is ray tracing nearly ready for prime time? We examine the technology's industrial and consumer gaming applications. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens ...

With the arrival in April of the first official details about Sony’s next-generation PlayStation, and Microsoft’s unveiling of Project Scarlett at its E3 2019 press briefing on Sunday, the future of ...

The two companies show how gaming tech can enhance car design with an extremely realistic 3D render of the 2019 BMW 8 Series coupe. Antuan started out in the automotive industry the old-fashioned way, ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Ray tracing is usually used to make games look more realistic by simulating the way light bounces off of surfaces ...