Hidden background details have been discovered using a ray tracing shader in Resident Evil HD Remastered. YouTuber Harry101UK has shared what the game reveals when enabling a ray traced global ...

Unity Technologies has just released its new Unity 2019.3 which includes real-time ray tracing goodness, and is now available to download from the Unity Store. Unity 2019.3 is a 'Tech Stream' release ...

For two consecutive years at WWDC, Apple improved Metal, with Metal 3 running on Apple Silicon Macs and on iOS and tvOS devices. Here are the big changes to Metal in the forthcoming iOS 17 and macOS ...

Microsoft has released a preview of the next step in DirectX Raytracing to its Windows Insider Program, meaning developers can start to play with new performance enhancing features to deliver a better ...

Earlier today, Qualcomm announced its latest and greatest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC during its Snapdragon Summit 2022 conference. In the same event, Oppo also took the stage to announce its new Ray ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Arm is announcing its new flagship Immortalis GPU today, its first to include ...

TL;DR: At GDC 2025, Microsoft announced DirectX Raytracing (DXR) 1.2, promising significant performance boosts in ray-traced games through technologies like opacity micromaps and shader execution ...

Microsoft says DXR 1.2 offers up to a 2.3x performance boost in ray tracing games. DXR 1.2 includes shader execution reordering and opacity micromaps. These features orginally debuted with Nvidia's ...

Today, Microsoft is announcing a new version of its gaming and multimedia API platform, DirectX. The new version, DirectX 12 Ultimate, largely unifies Windows PCs with the upcoming Xbox Series X ...

Microsoft is moving on to the next generation of its DirectX gaming APIs for Windows and Xbox. DirectX 12 Ultimate enables developers to unlock all of the hardware features on PC and in the Xbox ...

Every few years, it seems like there's an amazing new technology with the promise of making games look ever more realistic. Over the decades, we've had shaders, tessellation, shadow mapping, ray ...

For anyone wondering what Cyberpunk 2077’s ‘Overdrive’ ray tracing is, don’t worry. You’ve come to the right place. ‘Path tracing’ is the other name for full ray tracing. Full ray tracing differs from ...