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Ray Tracing Related Topics 
Nvidia
JANUARY 5, 2023
To achieve high efficiency with ray tracing, you must build a pipeline that scales well at every stage. To achieve high efficiency with ray tracing, you must build a pipeline that scales well at every stage. For ray tracing, visibility can be estimated directly based on the number of rays hitting each object.
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The GameDev Guru
DECEMBER 1, 2020
In this blog post, I’ll show you my favorite way to get real-time ray-tracing up and running in Unity
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The GameDev Guru
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
Let's get back to ray tracing with Unity global illumination. See what's a better fit for you: baked GI, screen-space GI and ray-traced GI.
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The GameDev Guru
OCTOBER 1, 2020
Then you need to pay attention to these 5 signs that may reveal it's your time to move into Ray-tracing. Developing your game in Unity?
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Nvidia
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
NVIDIA RTX Kit is a suite of neural rendering technologies to ray-trace games with AI, render scenes with immense geometry, and create game characters with Source
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The GameDev Guru
OCTOBER 14, 2020
In this post, you will learn the Unity secrets behind Ray-Traced Ambient Occlusion (RTAO).
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The GameDev Guru
OCTOBER 28, 2020
Real-time ray-tracing will do this for you. Learn how to render colored shadows in Unity to give a unique tint to the style of your game.
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Nvidia
AUGUST 25, 2023
works with Bryan Catanzaro, NVIDIA VP of Applied Deep Learning Research Ray Reconstruction is a new neural network for all GeForce RTX GPUs that further improves the image quality of ray-traced images. Ray Reconstruction improves the performance of ray tracing in Cyberpunk 2077 Overdrive Mode DLSS 3.5
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Nvidia
MARCH 21, 2024
The union of ray tracing and AI is pushing graphics fidelity and performance to new heights. The union of ray tracing and AI is pushing graphics fidelity and performance to new heights. Helping you build optimized, bug-free applications in this era of. Check out what’s new in the NVIDIA Nsight Graphics 2024.1…
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Nvidia
JULY 28, 2021
Next week, Ray Tracing Gems II will finally be available in its entirety as a free download, or for purchase as a physical release from Apress or Amazon. Next week, Ray Tracing Gems II will finally be available in its entirety as a free download, or for purchase as a physical release from Apress or Amazon.
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Nvidia
JULY 21, 2021
In just two weeks, on August 4, Ray Tracing Gems II will be available to download for free in its entirety, or to purchase as a physical release from Apress or. In just two weeks, on August 4, Ray Tracing Gems II will be available to download for free in its entirety, or to purchase as a physical release from Apress or Amazon.
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Nvidia
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Ray Tracing Gems II is now available to download for free via Apress and Amazon and as a hardcover on Apress and Amazon as well. Ray Tracing Gems II is now available to download for free via Apress and Amazon and as a hardcover on Apress and Amazon as well. For those who love books as a.
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Nvidia
JUNE 30, 2021
We showcased a wide variety of NVIDIA-powered ray tracing technologies and features that provide more realistic visualizations for artists and designers worldwide. On-Demand Sessions Ray Tracing in One Weekend Pete Shirley gets you started on the fundamentals of ray tracing.
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Nvidia
AUGUST 7, 2023
NVIDIA OptiX is a powerful and flexible ray-tracing framework, In the realm of computer graphics, achieving photorealistic visuals has been a long-sought goal. NVIDIA OptiX is a powerful and flexible ray-tracing framework, enabling you to harness the potential of ray tracing.
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Nvidia
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Six years ago, real-time ray tracing was seen as a pipe dream. Six years ago, real-time ray tracing was seen as a pipe dream. Working on Project Sol was an exhilarating experience, especially because it was our first dive into developing real-time content with consumer GPUs supporting real-time ray tracing.
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Nvidia
JULY 31, 2024
Shaders are specialized programs that run on the GPU that manipulate rays, pixels, vertices, and textures to achieve unique visual effects. They’re essential in ray tracing for simulating realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections. With shaders, you can add creative expression and realism to the rendered image.
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Nvidia
JULY 16, 2021
As the August 4 release date for Ray Tracing Gems II nears, NVIDIA is offering another free chapter from the book to celebrate. As the August 4 release date for Ray Tracing Gems II nears, NVIDIA is offering another free chapter from the book to celebrate. This time, the topic is.
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Nvidia
JULY 19, 2021
RTX Memory Utility (RTXMU) Available Now Reducing Memory Consumption with an Open Source Solution Real-time ray tracing has advanced the art of lighting in. It’s built to support any DXR or Vulkan Ray Tracing application. For applications using RTXMU, NVIDIA RTX cards get a ~50% reduction in memory footprint.
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Nvidia
JULY 25, 2022
[stextbox id="info"]This post is an update of Best Practices: Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing.[/stextbox] This post is an update of Best Practices: Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing. This post gathers best practices based on our experiences so far using NVIDIA RTX ray tracing in games.
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Nvidia
JULY 7, 2021
Every Wednesday in July, NVIDIA Developer is making pre-print PDFs of full chapters from the upcoming book Ray Tracing Gems II available free for download. Every Wednesday in July, NVIDIA Developer is making pre-print PDFs of full chapters from the upcoming book Ray Tracing Gems II available free for download.
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Nvidia
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
The recent webinar shares how to use Unity’s High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) wizard to enable ray-tracing in your Unity project with just a few clicks. The recent webinar shares how to use Unity’s High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) wizard to enable ray-tracing in your Unity project with just a few clicks.
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GamesIndustry.biz
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
The big three additions are a larger graphics processing unit, advanced ray tracing techniques, and AI-driven upscaling, with the aim of delivering more detailed graphics at 60 frames per second. Read more
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Nvidia
AUGUST 4, 2021
Ray Tracing Gems II is now available to download for free via Apress. Ray Tracing Gems II is now available to download for free via Apress. Ray tracing is the holy grail of gaming graphics, simulating the physical behavior of light to bring real-time, cinematic-quality rendering to even the most visually intense games.
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Nvidia
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
NV Vulkan Ray Tracing Extension), Today, NVIDIA announced Nsight Graphics 2021.5, NV Vulkan Ray Tracing Extension), OpenGL, OpenVR, and the Oculus SDK. This has direct implications on performance, making it an important feature for anyone looking to optimize their ray tracing applications.
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Nvidia
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
NVIDIA OptiX Ray Tracing Engine is a scalable and seamless framework that offers optimal ray tracing performance on GPUs. NVIDIA OptiX Ray Tracing Engine is a scalable and seamless framework that offers optimal ray tracing performance on GPUs. In this fall update to the NVIDIA.
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Nvidia
JULY 29, 2021
Developed by XeloGames, an indie studio of just three, and published by Headup Games, Escape from Naraka achieves eye-catching ray-traced lighting using RTX. Escape from Naraka was made in Unreal Engine 4, using NVIDIA’s NvRTX branch to bring ray tracing and DLSS into production.
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Nvidia
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
Today, developers can access the latest versions of RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI), RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI), NVIDIA Real-Time Denoisers (NRD), and OptiX Ray Tracing Engine (OptiX). NVIDIA OptiX Ray Tracing Engine 7.4 also received performance improvements to the demand loading library, ray payloads, and curves.
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GamesIndustry.biz
JUNE 11, 2024
Revealed during its Worldwide Development Conference on June 10, Gaming Porting Toolkit 2 adds support for Intel's Advanced Vector Extensions 2, ray tracing, improved compatibility with Windows games, and new shader debugging tools, as Apple noted on its blog.
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Nvidia
MARCH 24, 2022
Easier ray-tracing integration for games with Kickstart RT In 2018, NVIDIA Turing architecture changed the game with real-time ray tracing. This scene highlights ray tracing, global illumination, ambient occlusion, and ray traced shadows, enabled through KickStart SDK. Unreal Engine 4.27
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Nvidia
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Vulkan is the industry’s first open, cross-vendor standard ray tracing API, enabling portable ray tracing acceleration across diverse platforms. Vulkan is the industry’s first open, cross-vendor standard ray tracing API, enabling portable ray tracing acceleration across diverse platforms.
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Indie DB
JULY 1, 2023
Now you can enable or disable software ray tracing feature. Closed Alpha v0.14.1 Significant performance optimization. Average FPS should now improve by at least 50%.Now
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Nvidia
APRIL 1, 2021
To help them achieve this goal, NVIDIA has pioneered real-time ray tracing hardware with the launch of the RTX 20 series. With a low performance cost and massive productivity gains, RTXGI is an ideal starting point to bring the benefits of ray tracing to your content.
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Nvidia
MARCH 14, 2024
As ray tracing becomes the predominant rendering technique in modern game engines, a single GPU RayGen shader can now perform most of the light simulation of a. As ray tracing becomes the predominant rendering technique in modern game engines, a single GPU RayGen shader can now perform most of the light simulation of a frame.
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GamesIndustry.biz
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Now with hardware-accelerated ray tracing, games on iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus more accurately represent the behaviour of light with up to 5x higher frame rates than with software-based ray tracing," Apple said. It went as far as saying that iPhone 16 "puts a powerful gaming device in users' pockets." "Now
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Nvidia
MARCH 20, 2023
Integration of real-time path tracing technology simplified Real-time ray tracing in games was made possible with the introduction of RT cores in the NVIDIA Turing architecture. Released at GDC 2023, the NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing SDK is available to developers everywhere. Watch the demo video to learn more. Video 2.
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PreMortem.Games
OCTOBER 14, 2024
Ray Tracing Optimizations Ray tracing, while providing stunning visual realism, is computationally expensive and can quickly consume a significant amount of GPU resources.
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Nvidia
MAY 18, 2021
All of these GTC sessions are now available through NVIDIA On-Demand, so you can catch up on the latest tools and techniques in game development, from real-time ray tracing to low-latency software development kits. Ray Tracing in One Weekend Watch this session to get a beginners introduction to ray tracing.
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Nvidia
JULY 1, 2021
NvRTX Artist Guide Learn more about the NVIDIA RTX Unreal Engine Branch (NvRTX), and discover technologies such as RTXDI, RTXGI, new denoisers like Relax, ray-traced volumetrics and tools like the BVH viewer. This session will cover several challenges developers can encounter when working to deploy ray tracing in a game environment.
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Nvidia
AUGUST 19, 2022
We recently kicked off our NVIDIA Developer Program exclusive series of Connect with Experts Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions featuring NVIDIA experts and Ray Tracing Gems editors Eric Haines, Adam Marrs, Peter Shirley, and Ingo Wald. Do ray tracing and deep learning overlap? Eric: Yes, in many ways.
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Nvidia
MARCH 25, 2021
Check out our top sessions below for those working in the gaming industry: Ray Tracing in Cyberpunk 2077 Learn how ray tracing was used to create the visuals in the game, and how the developers at CD Projekt RED used extensive ray tracing techniques to bring the bustling Night City to life.
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Nvidia
JULY 13, 2022
Attendees can get tips on incorporating real-time rendering across their projects from the editors of Ray Tracing Gems II : Adam Marrs is a principal engineer in the Game Engines and Core Technology group at NVIDIA. He has written for GPU Zen 2 , Ray Tracing Gems , and recently served as the editor-in-chief of Ray Tracing Gems II.
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Nvidia
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Branch offers all of the benefits of mainline UE4.26, while providing some additional features: Faster ray tracing NVRTX includes a number of improvements to ray tracing performance. Hybrid Translucency Another way to do ray traced translucency, with greater compatibility, speed and rendering options.
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Nvidia
APRIL 14, 2021
AI Super Resolution Tech Available Later This Year Unity made real-time ray tracing available to all of their developers in 2019 with the release of 2019LTS. AI Super Resolution Tech Available Later This Year Unity made real-time ray tracing available to all of their developers in 2019 with the release of 2019LTS.
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Played with Fire
JANUARY 27, 2025
Thanks to advancements in real-time rendering technologies, such as ray tracing, and next-generation VR headsets, users can now experience environments that look and feel almost indistinguishable from reality. Here are 5 VR trends in 2025.
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