It was last June, when Epic Games released the first look of Unreal Engine 5. The demo was a short 9-minute movie, Lumen in the Land of Nanite, originally made for the PlayStation 5. We were simply awestruck by the visuals made with Nanite virtualized micro-polygon geometry. Nanite virtualized geometry means that film-quality source art comprising hundreds of millions or … [Read more...] about Early access to Unreal Engine 5 is available for game developers
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Imagination shows the way to ray tracing
Expanded site and SDK gives examples. Imagination has had ray tracing capabilities since 2010 when they acquired the boutique ray tracing company Caustic. Caustic had developed a hardware accelerator which Imagination turned into an RTL core and added to their stable of IP accelerators. The company has built out their ray tracing SDK and, in the words of David Harold, … [Read more...] about Imagination shows the way to ray tracing
New notebooks updated with Nvidia’s RTX3050 ray tracing tech
And realtime ray tracing becomes a reality. Got your ray tracing on yet? Whatya waiting for, there’s over 140 notebooks to choose from with prices as low as $800. You can get a new notebook with Nvidia’s new RTX3050 that runs Nvidia’s new DLSS 2.0 ray tracing magic. If you’re gamer, even a casual gamer, you can game in a ray traced environment with one of these new … [Read more...] about New notebooks updated with Nvidia’s RTX3050 ray tracing tech
What’s Arm up to? Anything you want to throw at it
Tackling the next 300 billion devices from the IoT up to supercomputers. Arm showed its first new architecture in a decade at its recent one-day virtual conference. Arm introduces their v9 design and provided their macro view of future semiconductor development. As it turns out, from Arm’s perspective, Arm devices will control the world. All data will either be generated, … [Read more...] about What’s Arm up to? Anything you want to throw at it
The rays of Khronos reach everywhere
From gaming to CAD and holograph displays. In 2018, before there were pandemics, vicious nation-splitting election campaigns, and the biggest GPU ever, a small group of ray-loving engineers got together to change and save the world. In early 2018, the Vulkan Working Group formed the Vulkan Ray Tracing Task Subgroup (TSG in Khronos kode). Its goal was to enable a focused … [Read more...] about The rays of Khronos reach everywhere
The levels of ray tracing
There are six, says Imagination Technologies. With ray tracing becoming increasingly important for a wide range of graphics applications, Imagination Technologies has developed a Ray Tracing Level System to give developers and OEMs an insight into the capability of solutions for ray tracing acceleration available now and in the future. The System identifies increasingly … [Read more...] about The levels of ray tracing
Dr. Peddie to speak at the Real-Time Ray Tracing Summit on June 17th
Dr. Jon Peddie will be joining industry leaders in speaking at the Real-Time Ray Tracing Summit on Wednesday, June 17th. M2 Insights is hosting a 1/2 day online event focused on the latest tools, resources, and techniques used to develop real-time ray tracing for games. DATE: June 17, 2020 TIME: 11am - 4pm PDT The Real-Time Ray Tracing Summit covers topics such: … [Read more...] about Dr. Peddie to speak at the Real-Time Ray Tracing Summit on June 17th
Unreal Engine 4.25 arrives with support for Pixar’s USD, multi-screen, and ray tracing
New game engine more robust than ever with features beyond game development. Epic has made some major improvements and upgrades to its popular game engine, Unreal. With the release of Unreal Engine 4.25, Epic has expanded the toolset to include content creation and editing for more areas of game and visualization development. Epic says their linear media tools are … [Read more...] about Unreal Engine 4.25 arrives with support for Pixar’s USD, multi-screen, and ray tracing
Khronos Vulkan Ray Tracing API announced
Familiar ray tracing API comes to Vulkan with some new features compared to DXR. Microsoft announced the development of a ray tracing extension to DirectX 12 called DXR in March 2018 at the same time that Nvidia introduced its RTX hardware ray tracing architecture. Cards using the RTX architecture shipped in the summer of 2018 when Nvidia introduced its revolutionary … [Read more...] about Khronos Vulkan Ray Tracing API announced
A 5-year vision for workstation graphics performance
by Bob Cramblitt Views of SPEC/GWPG members. Every day in their engineering jobs with leading OEMs and graphics card manufacturers, the representatives of the SPEC Graphics and Workstation Performance Group (SPEC/GWPG) assess the latest technologies designed to make their products run professional applications faster and more efficiently. In their role with … [Read more...] about A 5-year vision for workstation graphics performance