ray tracing

Ray Tracing May be Accelerated by 150X

by Bob Raikes

A hat tip to Jon Peddie’s TechWatch for reporting on new AR/VR-oriented ray tracing. Ray tracing is capable of creating scenes and objects that are genuinely photo-realistic, but takes a huge amount of processor …

Ray Tracing Just Became Faster, Easier and Less Complex

by Tom Allen

A new technique, developed by computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, has increased the speed of rendering some particularly tricky graphics. Rendering specular highlights, or glints (such as reflections from uneven …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| ray tracing| Software| Vol 23 - Issue 29

OTOY/Imagination Tech Lower Ray Tracing Power Draw

by Tom Allen

Imagination Technologies has agreed a partnership with OTOY, a company specialising in graphics processing in the cloud. Imagination will integrate support for its PowerVR ray tracing technology into OTOY’s upcoming OctaneRender4 rendering engine, for …

Robust Tech Enables New Scenes for Pixar

by Tom Allen

The Hollywood Post Alliance Tech Retreat, co-organised by SMPTE, is dedicated to the technologies of film production. This year, for the first time, an edition of the event was held in the UK, in …

Tags:HPA Tech Retreat| Large Display Monitor| Post Production| ray tracing| Vol 23 - Issue 28

Imagination and 3Glasses Collaborate to Promote Ray Tracing Technology for Virtual Reality Devices

by Isaac Oburu

Imagination Technologies and China-based 3Glasses announce they are collaborating to promote ray tracing technology in mass-market consumer virtual reality (VR) devices. 3Glasses, product brand of Virtual Reality (VR) Technology Ltd., is a provider of …

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Ray Tracing for VR With Imagination and 3Glasses

by Tom Allen

Imagination Technologies is working with 3Glasses of China to promote ray tracing technology in mainstream consumer VR devices. 3Glasses produces such devices and Imagination developed the PowerVR graphics IP, which can be used for …

Tags:Imagination Tech| Mobile Display Monitor| ray tracing| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 25

Nvidia Bringing Ray Tracing to VR

by Bob Raikes

In his keynote at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC), Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia said that his company has developed a version of its iRay ray-tracing software that can be used to create content …

Imagination Working on Foveated Rendering

by Bob Raikes

Imagination Technologies had a meeting room in the South Hall as it has had for several years. It had lots to talk about. The firm bought ray tracing company, Caustic Technology (Display Monitor Vol …

by Dummy Admin

Effective as they can be at producing recognisable 3D scenes, Gouraud and Phong shading will never produce anything that could be described as photo-realistic. To achieve this, it’s necessary to use rendering techniques that …

Radiosity

by Dummy Admin

Ray tracing mimics the reflection and refraction of light rays in a 3D scene to produce image detail surpassing anything possible using Phong shading. Effective as it is, though, ray tracing by itself will …