Imgtec PowerVR gets raytracing unit.

[mjohansson]

http://blog.imgtec.com/powervr-developers/powervr-gr6500-ray-tracing

This is from before summer 2014 but I never heard of it, being a big fan of raytracing I got excited by this, I wonder if it will end up in for example Nintendo hardware in future, if it only comes to a handfull phones I doubt it will make any impact at all...

I want dedicated ray trace cards for PCs with an easy to use API like openGL, why has this not happened yet?

 

[mjohansson]

Ah theres a API already called openRL. Works with Caustic hardware? and the upcoming powerVR gpus.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/LyH4yBm6Z9g?feature=oembed