{"id":8312,"date":"2020-03-18T02:27:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T06:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/?p=8312"},"modified":"2020-03-18T02:27:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T06:27:06","slug":"vulkan-ray-tracing-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/vulkan-ray-tracing-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"The Khronos Group launches Vulkan Ray Tracing"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Khronos Group has announced the launch of Vulkan Ray Tracing. This comes with initial support via beta drivers to NVidia<\/a> cards.<\/p>\n This technology is primarily focused on meeting desktop market demand for both real-time and offline rendering. It is released as provisional extensions to enable the developer community to provide feedback before the specifications are finalized.<\/p>\n The motivation for this release comes from the strong developer demand for a truly cross-platform ray tracing acceleration API.<\/p>\n According to the official announcemen<\/a>t, Vulkan Ray Tracing consists of a number of Vulkan, SPIR-V, and GLSL extensions, some of which are optional. The primary VK_KHR_ray_tracing extension provides support for acceleration structure building and management, ray tracing shader stages and pipelines, and ray query intrinsics for all shader stages.<\/p>\n You can download the Beta drivers<\/a> from NVidia here. These drivers are for developers only and should not be used in production or consumer environment. More about this announcement can be found in this presentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Khronos Group has announced the launch of Vulkan Ray Tracing. This comes with initial support via beta drivers to NVidia cards. This technology is primarily focused on meeting desktop…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13,28,16],"tags":[33,142,145,146,195,318,412,424,433,449,543,544,616,628],"yoast_head":"\n