Imagination demos real-time ray tracing with its PowerVR GR6500
by from Techreport on (#150WY)
Back in 2014, Imagination Technologies announced its PowerVR GR6500 ray-tracing GPU. That design taped out in July last year, and now the company is showing some actual real-time ray tracing demos using the Unity 5 engine and the GR6500 GPU at MWC 2016.
Ray tracing has long been a staple of high-end 3D graphical work. Put simply, the technique involves casting virtual rays of light on a scene and accurately calculating where and how they will land, which shadows they ...