NVIDIA Acquires RayScale Software
Categories: Industry News Tags: hybrid renderer, NVIDIA, rasterization, ray tracing
NVIDIA will be announcing the acquisition of a ray tracing software company called RayScale.
This is an incredibly interesting move and clarifies more of NVIDIA’s stance on merging traditional rasterization and ray tracing techniques, as we saw in our interview with David Kirk, NVIDIA’s CTO.
RayScale was a startup based out of the University of Utah and has built a hybrid renderer that merges the two techniques – all of the reflections in the image they showed were indeed done with ray tracing alone. The engine was not up to real-time frame rates on the images but they said they have spent the last two weeks working on adding features, not performance, and that it should be “no problem” to get his running in real-time.
