Founded by three engineers from Apple, Caustic Graphics promises to speed up the realistic renderings through a combination of chips and software. Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where ...

Ray tracing technology is changing how modern games render light by simulating how rays travel, bounce, and interact with objects in a virtual environment. This allows graphics rendering to produce ...

Ray tracing, a next-generation lighting technology that creates hyper-realistic visuals, has been the hot topic in gaming graphics for a while. The most interesting aspect is that real-time ray ...

Today, Nvidia showed us the true promise and vision of ray tracing—making virtual environments look as real as possible based on how light is cast and reflected off surfaces and objects. It’s not a ...

Nvidia's big advantage will soon disappear. AMD’s next-generation graphics cards could bring ray tracing capabilities to Mac. The company’s new Navi 2X architecture, coming later this year, will be ...

Microsoft's Mojang and Nvidia are adding a rendering technique called ray tracing to "Minecraft." Ray tracing looks at the way rays of light bounce off of virtual objects to simulate real-world ...

If you play video games or are new to games development and would like to learn more about the latest technologies helping bring extra immersion in realism to game graphics. This quick guide will ...

Microsoft has recently shared a lot of details about the Xbox Series X. This includes a fresh look at how the console’s use of hardware accelerated DirectX ray tracing makes next-gen games look even ...

AMD revealed the Radeon RX 5600 XT during its CES 2020 keynote on Monday, aiming its new “Navi” RDNA architecture at PC gaming’s 1080p sweet spot after tackling 1440p with the superb Radeon RX 5700 ...

Last fall, we examined real-time ray tracing performance in 3D modeling programs and discussed some of the promises and challenges surrounding the technology. At the time, there weren't any hardware ...

Fortnite’s getting a graphics update soon, at least for some players. On Sept. 17, Nvidia will launch a whole suite of new graphical upgrades mostly focused around real-time ray tracing. Real-time ray ...