The answer appears to lie in ray tracing, a powerful graphics rendering technique that mimics the behavior of light in the ...

Ray tracing is an old, but now widely, available technology that realistically renders light and shadow to create almost real-life images in video games. Until fairly recently, whenever our ...

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It was in 2018 when Nvidia revealed its real-time ray tracing technology for games, titled Nvidia RTX. At the time, many people thought it to be the next best thing for video games, while others ...

John Linneman interviews id Software's director of engine technology Billy Khan about the tech of Doom: The Dark Ages.

That's why you usually only see ray tracing in triple-A video game releases- smaller studios can't afford the hardware necessary to render environments like this. Odds are good that you haven't ...

One of the most important advancements in video game development in recent years is ray tracing ⁠– the seemingly magical technology that renders light in games resulting in stunning detail and ...

Although ray tracing can add visual realism to top-tier games, it can also maul the performance ... with a subset designed specifically for 3D graphics and video. Although this new technique ...

For about as long as the film industry has been using ray tracing, however, video games have relied on a different technique for rendering 3D worlds: rasterization. Before we address the reasons ...