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 ...

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 ...

Ray tracing and path tracing are two major technologies shaping modern gaming graphics and graphics rendering in 2026. In this graphics comparison, both techniques improve lighting, reflections, and ...

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 ...

Minecraft is pretty simple, and there’s not a whole lot going on visually — most enemies are blocks, and even 11 years ago the game could run on low-end computers. But the Dec. 8 update changes that ...

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 ...

The reflections are nice, but the RTGI is poor.

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 ...

When Sony announced the PlayStation 5 in early October, system architect Mark Cerny went out of his way to clarify that “ray tracing” will be baked into the hardware. He believed it was “the statement ...

Speaking at the Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference, Nvidia's Colette Kress has stated that two of every three desktop graphics cards it sells now come with ray tracing enabled. That sounds ...

A new announcement out from Activision confirms that a new Call of Duty game will be dropping on October 25, 2019 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. More notable than its fresh story content ...