From the moment 4-year-old Cameron first stepped out into Glimmer in Spyro 2, he knew video games were going to play a central role in the rest of his life. Though he never planned to make it the ...

In modern gaming, lighting is king and there’s never been a more wondrous thing than ray tracing. Ray tracing is an old, but now widely, available technology that realistically renders light and ...

Full ray tracing or path tracing is only available in a handful of titles, but the results are as mind-blowingly impressive as they are taxing on a graphics card. Cyberpunk 2077, Alan Wake II, and ...

Editor's take: While there have been plenty of "next-gen upgrades" to existing games, very few have provided ray tracing, with most just focusing on higher-resolution assets. So it's nice to see that ...

Page 2: Far Cry 6: Performance With Ray Tracing And FSR Overview The raid on this fort is reminiscent of infiltration missions in Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag A whole new crop of blockbuster games ...

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Observer tells the story of Daniel Lazarski, played by the late Rutger Hauer, as he receives a phone call from his son asking him for help before their connection is cut out. Lazarski is an Observer.

Unless you're a physicist, you probably don't pay too much mind to the function of light in your daily life. Light is light, right? When there is light, we see, and when there isn't, we don't. But ...

In simple words, ray tracing means calculating how light would fall on objects, how it looks after the light is reflected from that object, and the effect of light that falls on some other object.

Nvidia invested heavily in real-time ray tracing capabilities in its GeForce RTX 20-series graphics cards—so much so that those highest-end GeForce GPUs swapped out the age-old “GTX” branding for the ...

Although benchmarks are never perfect, they’re a useful tool for judging comparative performance. Basemark has just such a tool in its new In Vitro GPU test suite and kindly provided a copy to Android ...

Ray tracing and path tracing sound similar — and technically, they are. Both methods simulate how light travels in a 3D environment, but the way they work and the results they produce are completely ...