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Intel: Ray-traced games coming in 2-3 years

Post by Milly , 2008-07-31 19:48:48 Source: FiringSquad Editor:Milly

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In a PC Games Hardware interview dealing with Larrabee, Nehalem, and ray-tracing, Intel's Michael Vollmer predicts that we'll see the first ray-traced games in 2-3 years:

In a PC Games Hardware interview dealing with Larrabee, Nehalem, and ray-tracing, Intel's Michael Vollmer predicts that we'll see the first ray-traced games in 2-3 years:

 

PCGH: Are there game developers that already want to work with Raytracing?

 

Dr. Michael Vollmer: We keep in touch with companies all over the world - I dare say that in two to three years time we will see something. There already are some individual approaches, especially in the science sector, which show that Raytracing algorithms are scaling very well with the numbers of cores. But the migration to a new programming technology takes years; Raytracing is still in an early stage.

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