Recently, there has been quite some discussion about the possible future use of ray tracing in games. Industry veterans such as
John Carmack (ID Software), Tim Sweeney (Epic Games),
Cevat Yerli (Crytek) as well as graphics experts such as
David Kirk (NVidia) and
Daniel Pohl (Intel) gave their opinion on the subject. With
Intel’s Larrabee, their
acquisition of Offset Studios, and references to FarCry 2 subtly linked to ray tracing, there is plenty of food for thought. Nvidia is also involved: The
takeover of Mental Images and RayScale indicate that they also keep their options open.
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Source: PC Perspective
Jun 23, 2008, 05:54 PM
