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 ...

In computer graphics, ray tracing is a technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light through pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of its encounters with virtual objects ...

Ray tracing may well be more commonplace in games these days but it's still seen as a hugely difficult graphics feature to process, requiring powerful graphics cards with dedicated ray tracing ...

Real-time path tracing, the next stage of game rendering, is on the horizon, Nvidia says. But wait--didn't RTX just get here? So what is path tracing, how is it different from ray tracing, and why ...

Nvidia said Friday at that it has bought the ray-tracing company RayScale. The purchase has a lot of significance in the war of words between Nvidia and Intel over graphics. The new acquisition could ...

The gaming industry has been a forefront for technology since its early days, pushing the expectations of things like handheld computing, online communication, and of course, graphics. For the last ...

Over the last few years, if you're a gamer or PC hardware enthusiast, you've probably heard the term "ray-tracing" bandied about quite a bit. Actually, you likely heard it before that, but with the ...

Intel has just announced an interesting update to its upcoming Meteor Lake chips: The integrated graphics are about to receive an unprecedented boost, allowing them to rival low-end, discrete GPUs.

After decades of work, is ray tracing nearly ready for prime time? We examine the technology's industrial and consumer gaming applications. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens ...

Ubuntu Summit One of the more unexpected talks at last week's Ubuntu Summit 25.10 in London was by Antonio Salvemini of Bolt Graphics, who introduced the company's forthcoming range of Zeus graphics ...