Me. For 35 years I've watched computer games go from Space Invaders to Crysis. For most of that time there has been at least an undercurrent of "please make the graphics more realistic".
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Future iPhones May Offer More Realistic Lighting and Shadows with New Ray-Tracing GPU
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Me. For 35 years I've watched computer games go from Space Invaders to Crysis. For most of that time there has been at least an undercurrent of "please make the graphics more realistic".
Not at all. I find the readability much better on the rasterised image, and given the size of a phone's display that's what I want.
Improvements are always good, but IMO there is a point where you have to consider the limits of the device outside of performance. Why would I want photo realism on an iPhone game where my fingers will be obscuring the view the whole time, on a tiny screen where a high FOV isn't necessary?
On something a little larger where my own body won't obscure the image, on say a large TV or a large-screen handheld (like the Vita); sure. Go wild. Just make sure the art direction is given a bigger priority than "realism".
I would prefer games running at 30fps/60fps constantly over fancy effects.
That's one thing about a dedicated handheld like PSP/3DS, every game was/is super smooth. As much as I love the iPhone, I wish the developers would run games at a constant fps rate!
That's one thing about a dedicated handheld like PSP/3DS, every game was/is super smooth. As much as I love the iPhone, I wish the developers would run games at a constant fps rate!
I wholeheartedly, adamantly, disagree. The visual advantage is not subjective. It's very objective in fact. Perhaps you haven't seen some of the better ray tracing examples out there?
What purpose does the visual advantage of raytracing have if comes at the cost of decreased performance and vastly increased software complexity? There is nothing in the showed example that can't be done with rasterising - and I would guess at a lower performance cost. Raytracing is the future, no doubt about it, but I won't consider it in large style until it can do virtual resources. The requirement to have all the data in memory and difficulties in dealing with dynamic scenes is a big killer in my book.
Its very processor intensive, having more cores helps but to put it in its most basic definition it just means more life-like graphics for games.
So much talk here for people who don't have a clue what they are on about.
If anyone actually here is interested in anything other than a quick rubbish headline, here is something you may learn from, from someone who actually knows what they are talking about:
http://youtu.be/MG4QuTe8aUw
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If anyone actually here is interested in anything other than a quick rubbish headline, here is something you may learn from, from someone who actually knows what they are talking about:
http://youtu.be/MG4QuTe8aUw
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It _was_ too much cost. Entry cost to rat tracing is very high, so rasterization took shortcuts to approximate results cheaper. Now that rasterization hardware is the same power as equivalent ray tracing, better to just switch to ray tracing because further improvements will cost much less vs comparable rasterization improvements.
I wouldn't say rasterizers are equivalent, though they can convincingly fake raytracing effects very, very well these days.
As far as games or any other realtime 3D media goes, there are areas where rasterizing is strong that raytracing is inherently weak, and vice versa. Something that one struggles with the other can handle no problem. Together, they could complement each other fairly well, potentially leading to better effects and more realistic worlds without as much overhead.
Wish the UI had such stuff but unfortunately iUnicorn is only able to draw gradients and no buttons.
I find it interesting that the cards in the link have 4-16GB of ram on them in order to do the ray tracing real time. Wouldn't that imply that Apple would have to have gobs of RAM in their devices? And what happened to Ray Tracing takes less RAM than rasterization?
Did anyone see John Carmack douse water on the idea of using Ray Tracing for games?
Since you're such a know-it-all I'll just leave it to you.
Haha! not enough time - working on synthetic muscles.
Does anyone really care about a seizure or two?
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I wonder if this could also be brought to things like mapping, VR, medical applications, architecture, etc (I've given up most gaming as even my 7 year old embarrasses me now.)