Ray tracing is a term you’re going to hear a lot now that Nvidia has announced professional and consumer graphics cards that use this technique to produce some of the most life-like simulations ...

After decades of work, is ray tracing nearly ready for prime time? We examine the technology's industrial and consumer gaming applications.

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.

Ray Tracing Algorithms and Hardware Acceleration Publication Trend The graph below shows the total number of publications each year in Ray Tracing Algorithms and Hardware Acceleration.

Computer game graphics could soon be much more realistic thanks to research at the University of Saarland, Germany. At the tech-fair Cebit, a team from the university demonstrated a lighting technique ...

Intel has just made a huge leap forward in its graphics department. Going forward, integrated GPUs will have access to hardware ray tracing.

And it absolutely whips if you, like me, have half-remembered memories of playing Descent on someone else's dad's computer in the mid-'90s in a dimly lit basement.

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.

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.