Ray tracing optimization and new ‘Chaos’ Physics and Destruction System are now available. Like previous updates, Unreal Engine's latest release has arrived with a long list of the updates. Epic says that this release includes 192 improvements submitted by the very active community of Unreal Engine developers on GitHub. At the Game Developer Conference, Epic revealed new … [Read more...] about Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.23
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Nvidia brings ray tracing and AI to Siggraph again
One year later, the ecosystem has exploded. This year at Siggraph, Nvidia showed a lineup of RTX Studio Laptops and Mobile Workstations that the company said were purpose-built for creators, and coming from every major OEM—10 new designs from Dell, HP, Lenovo and Boxx, raising the number of RTX Studio models to 27. Various ISVs were represented in demos including Adobe, … [Read more...] about Nvidia brings ray tracing and AI to Siggraph again
Kicking down barriers, Nvidia has awoken the industry to ray tracing
The next great hurdle has been conquered. By Jon Peddie & Robert Dow The PlayStation 5, due in late 2020, is going to have ray tracing. Knowing that Microsoft’s Scarlet will probably get it too. Nintendo won’t but who cares. AMD has hinted they will have some kind of RT support in future GPUs, which seems logical since they are building the Sony and Microsoft chip. And … [Read more...] about Kicking down barriers, Nvidia has awoken the industry to ray tracing
Epics Unreal team acquires Twinmotion from Abvent
Adds to the tools to enable presentation and visualization. Game engines are becoming powerful tools for a variety of work beyond the game industry. Of the largest areas of opportunity is the CAD market, but game engines are still difficult for people to use especially if their real job has nothing to do with learning game engines. Epic's Unreal group has been working on this … [Read more...] about Epics Unreal team acquires Twinmotion from Abvent
Intel expands its visualization framework
Accelerating everything, all in on open source, and revolutionizing workflows. At FMX, Intel’s Sr. Principal Engineer, Sr. Director, Advanced Rendering and Visualization, presented updates on Intel’s Rendering Framework which includes the open source tools and libraries of Embree and OSPRay, Open SWR, and the Open Image Denoise tools. Jeffers notes that the AI/ML based Open … [Read more...] about Intel expands its visualization framework