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GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Demystifying ray tracing for the next generation. Ray tracing is an ...

Microsoft has shipped a set of Direct3D 12 upgrades that target one of the most persistent bottlenecks in PC gaming, the cost of real-time ray tracing. The updates, delivered through the DirectX 12 ...

PCWorld reports that Microsoft’s new DirectX ray tracing updates could deliver performance boosts of 40-90% through Shader ...

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 ...

Mega Geometry is providing the next steps towards more detailed and efficient path tracing in large, open worlds.

Ray tracing and path tracing sound similar — and technically, they are. Both methods simulate how light travels in a 3D environment, but the way they work and the results they produce are completely ...

Smartphone ray tracing is here. Well, sort of. We don’t have any actual mobile games with ray tracing support yet; we’re still waiting patiently. But we do have Android phones with hardware ray ...

In the real-world, light bounces around our environment naturally, creating the scene our eyes absorb. In many games, this effect is faked – or “baked” – but ray tracing enables each individual beam ...