Adshir enables real-time ray tracing on mobile devices.
Adshir enables real-time ray tracing on mobile devices.
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Adshir’s LocalRay software enables real-time, energy-efficient ray tracing on smartphones

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Adshir is unveiling its LocalRay real-time ray tracing graphics software that it says will enable the highest-quality graphics to run on mobile devices that only consume a couple of watts of power.

Tel Aviv-based Adshir and its founder Reuven Bakalash, a graphics expert with 150 patents, have been working on the technology for more than seven years.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.