ah nice. Hope they put a pc game out using it then so we can see what its like to

What’s funny is I was just reading this Carmack interview from 08′ in which he states, “Discussing the next generation. Which may very well involve, I’m certainly hoping it involved, ray tracing in the “sparse voxel octree” because atleast I think I can show a real win”. He was referring to traditional rasterization, vs the voxel method up above to do ray tracing. What’s interesting to me is that he really believes(ed) ray tracing can be practically achieved thru this way, for consoles, provided the rendering performance you’d get from SVOGI.

But then again, the only confirmed gpu to support this is the 970 & 980 from what I read. Hopefully Microsoft patented the “ForzaTech” for the reason we think.

Old Carmack interview

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/John-Carmack-id-Tech-6-Ray-Tracing-Consoles-Physics-and-more

i dunno it was a whil back

Was the article an “insider” joint? Hehe. I can’t find it

There was an article about it using photo realistic lighting which means ray tracing. Won’t be full blown rayteacing of course just a bit of it. UE4 apparently uses dynamic ray tracing so its obviously a cheap enough method to be used

Psionic, where in JoeMontana16’s name did u hear that? Are u guessing that because lighting will be parallelized thru DirectX 12? I’m skeptical for now….