Ripstone’s pool simulation franchise is expanding with Pure Pool Pro, a brand new entry coming in Q3 2025 to PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X/S, with support for 8K resolution visuals and ray tracing for ...

The launch of AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics cards on November 18 will end NVIDIA’s monopoly on real-time ray tracing. For the first time, gamers will have a choice of GPU vendors when buying a ...

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 ...

Our initial goal was to realistically render and shade spheres with reflections while being able to navigate through the scene and allow the spheres to bounce and roll around. Once we met this goal, ...

Ray tracing is a lighting technique that brings an extra level of realism to games. It emulates the way light reflects and refracts in the real world, providing a more believable environment than what ...

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 ...

Ray tracing, a sophisticated technique for drawing realistic graphics in video games, has gone mainstream. Today it's even available on entry-level graphics hardware. Computers are my lifelong ...

3D graphics are made up of little more than very complicated math. With enough time, you could probably compute a ray marching by hand. Or, you could set up Excel to do it for you! Ray marching is a ...

Ray tracing and path tracing are two of the most exciting and demanding dynamic lighting techniques available to gamers and game developers in 2024. They both represent a massive leap in realism over ...

Here is ray tracing explained in simple terms, how ray tracing performance impacts FPS, and when ray tracing gaming visuals are truly worth the trade-off. Pixabay, Timrael Ray tracing has gone from a ...

In the spring, Id Software and Bethesda announced that they would bring real-time ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS 2.0 to the Vulkan-powered Doom Eternal. When we reviewed thsi latest Doom title, we found ...

Most PC gamers know that ray tracing is a very performance-intensive feature, and depending on the improvement to visual quality, it may or may not be worth using. In an extensive Hardware Unboxed ...