Chaos V-Ray is the number one software for architectural rendering. Almost everyone who creates architectural renders uses V-Ray: In CGarchitect’s Architectural Visualization Rendering Survey, almost ...

High-speed, high-quality realistic renders, compatible with major CAD and 3D modeling software, works with ray tracing, intuitive user experience, fast learning curve, atmospheric rendering effects, ...

Have we reached the end of the road for conventional 3D rendering? Industry leaders in cinema and gaming discuss new techniques and the need for new hardware. Peter N. Glaskowsky is a computer ...

Although it's an update aimed at game developers, 3D artists, and other creators who use Unreal Engine, the latest Unreal Engine 5.4 update is chock full of good news for gamers across PC, PlayStation ...

Intel is promoting CPU-based ray tracing as an alternative to traditional polygon-order rendering on PCs. Glaskowsky explains why this is a bad idea. Peter Glaskowsky Peter N. Glaskowsky is a computer ...

OPPO showcased ray tracing on its phones last year. But aside from a few demos available on the Play Store to test the rendering technique, ray tracing has remained largely unutilized — at least until ...

Ray tracing this, ray tracing that. Almost everywhere you go during this current gaming generation, you're going to hear about this new technology. NVIDIA and AMD are doing it with their modern ...

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 ...

As CPUs and GPUs continue to get more powerful with each new generation, the push for ever more realistic graphics in blockbuster games shows no signs of slowing down. Today's best-looking titles ...

A trick famously used by Nintendo to keep its slowly aging SNES console fresh against newer competition was to produce new games with extra support chips in the cartridge to push out ...

With the help of an extra graphics processing chip inside the cartridge, Star Fox did the impossible by bringing 3D graphics to the 16-bit Super Nintendo. The decision to engineer the SNES’ hardware ...