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The following article and video show that even the most demanding games of today can be played on any web-enabled device: http://www.techcru...

2 new video's showing the server side rendering in action and giving some specifics about the lag: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/16/...

Believe it or not, but yesterday I was on the phone with Jules Urbach, the man himself behind OTOY and LightStage (I guess writing a blog do...

The Ruby city demo, the very reason why I started this blog, was first shown to the world on June 4, 2008. Check the date on this youtube vi...

Interesting article: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/game-developers-see-promise-in-cloud-computing-but-some-are-skeptical/0 I h...

This presentation from Jules Urbach shows what the next Ruby demo could look like: http://developer.amd.com/gpu_assets/ATIGPGPUComputingFusi...

Jules Urbach talking about cloud rendering: http://neuronspark.com/videos/rendering-in-the-cloud/ An early concept video of LivePlace from M...

Great video of Zelex (Jon Olick) graphics engineer and researcher at id Software, showing the sparse voxel octree technology for id Tech 6: ...

So, almost 10 months have passed since the first unveiling of the Ruby/OTOY/Cinema 2.0/whatever demo. AMD still hasn't released the demo...

In the past couple of weeks, I've learned that there are different methods to efficiently store voxels for GPU raycasting: - Octrees - G...

Carmack's thoughts about ray tracing: I think that ray tracing in the classical sense, of analytically intersecting rays with convention...

In his QuakeCon keynote, John Carmack explained that his next generation engine id Tech 6 would still be mainly a hybrid renderer: I can say...

According to this article , the full Ruby demo will be shown to the public at Siggraph 2008. My interest in this demo is, apart from the pho...

After the Ruby/LightStage demo, 4 other video's appeared as part of an article about Otoy on TechCrunch . Urbach explains that he starte...

One week after the unveiling of the Ruby teaser, Jules Urbach recorded a new video, in which he gave a bit more info on the voxel based rend...

To begin with... a picture says more than a thousand words This is a picture from the Ruby demo. It looks photorealistic, but is realtime an...

Intro My name is Ray Tracey. I'm a graphics enthusiast with a passion for lifelike interactive graphics. Recently, I was struck by a rea...