Portable, performant access to advanced 3D rendering engines. In November 2019, Khronos announced the creation of the Analytic Rendering Exploratory Group, with the intent to investigate industry interest in creating an open API for data visualization. Then in March 2020, with strong industry support, Khronos created the ANARI Working Group to begin developing an open, … [Read more...] about Khronos ANARI API for 3D data visualization
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Engineering Emmy Award 2021 goes to V-Ray and Arnold
The Television Academy has announced the recipients of the 73rd Engineering Emmy Awards honoring an individual, company, or organization for developments in broadcast technology. Arnold Global Illumination Rendering System and Chaos’ V-Ray are among the eight Engineering Emmy recipients selected this year. The awards will be presented by the Television Academy Engineering … [Read more...] about Engineering Emmy Award 2021 goes to V-Ray and Arnold
Anari—come together, over me
Khronos tries to get everybody meet at their house. In November 2019, open standard API developer and harmonizing industry force, Khronos, enthralled developers and users alike with their proposed data visualization initiative to work on a cross-platform analytical rendering API. Prior to Khronos gathering the SciViz world, developers working in scientific visualization … [Read more...] about Anari—come together, over me
AMD releases Radeon ProRender plug-in for Autodesk Inventor
AMD has announced that its physically-based rendering engine, Radeon ProRender, is now available as a free, downloadable plug-in for Autodesk Inventor 2021 and 2022. It will help Inventor users create photorealistic images of their parts and assemblies. Radeon ProRender is built on AMD’s accelerated ray intersection library, Radeon Rays. Radeon ProRender uses open, common … [Read more...] about AMD releases Radeon ProRender plug-in for Autodesk Inventor
V-Ray 5 for Unreal offers faster render times with Chaos Cloud
After coming out of beta and improving continuously with hotfix and non-hotfix updates, the latest version of Chaos’ V-Ray renderer for Unreal Engine is here. V-Ray 5 for Unreal is now available for $219 (annually) or $80 (monthly). The new features in V-Ray 5 for Unreal include custom light baking controls, a new Frame Buffer with post-processing controls built-in, a … [Read more...] about V-Ray 5 for Unreal offers faster render times with Chaos Cloud
Early access to Unreal Engine 5 is available for game developers
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
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