Snap AR rolls out raytracing for Lens Studio developers
Snap announced that it’s rolling out ray tracing for the Snap AR platform starting today. The new tech allows developers to incorporate light-reflection effects...
‘No pixel left behind’: The new era of high-fidelity graphics and visualization has begun
Presented by Intel Everybody loves rich images. Whether it’s seeing the fine lines on Thanos’ villainous face, every strand of hair in The Secret...
Microsoft unveils DirectX 12 Ultimate with improved ray tracing
Microsoft is moving on to the next generation of its DirectX gaming APIs for Windows and Xbox. DirectX 12 Ultimate enables developers to unlock...
Adshir’s LocalRay software enables real-time, energy-efficient ray tracing on smartphones
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...
Apple’s Imagination Technologies deal is all about ray tracing and AR
Apple sent Imagination Technologies’ stock into a tailspin when it decided in 2017 to end its licensing contract with the storied British graphics chip...
Call of Duty and more get ray-tracing trailers at Gamescom
Nvidia is building an impressive library of games that support its real-time ray tracing. In June, I wrote that the tech is finally starting...
Ray tracing is finally starting to shine after E3
About 10 months ago, Nvidia launched its RTX lineup of video cards. The company has spent that time doing exactly what I pointed out...
Imagination offers ray tracing IP ahead of Apple’s 5G iPhone launch
Graphics chip designer Imagination Technologies may have been shut out of providing GPUs for Apple’s iPhones and iPads, forcing the company to sell itself...
Remedy’s Control is one of the latest games to get Nvidia’s RTX
Alan Wake and Quantum Break developer Remedy is adding some cutting-edge visual features to its newest game, Control. As part of the Game Developers...
Quake 2 is the best argument for Nvidia’s ray tracing
If you want to see the potential of ray tracing, you should look to Quake 2. A new mod called Q2VKPT (Quake 2 with...