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Cevat Yerli has given a keynote at GDC Europe about Crytek's next engine and its rendering techniques. Incrysis has pictures of the keyn...

Now let's hope the "you won't believe your eyes" refers to a new Ruby demo from OTOY!

A complete video of this year's keynote can be found at http://www.quakeunity.com/file=2919 Carmack considers cloud computing an interes...

Last Siggraph has shown that a lot of the big companies in 3D are heavily involved in realtime and interactive raytracing research. Nvidia...

... and getting super excited! Check it out for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Ge-35Ld70 This 10-minute video shows the last par...

SIGGRAPH 2009 Panel Explores Eye-Definition Computing and the Future of Digital Actors: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/SIGGRAPH-2009-Panel-Ex...

Cyril Crassin will be giving a talk at Siggraph 2009 on the subject of voxel raycasting and he has published a new short paper: Beyond Trian...

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6212860.html http://games.venturebeat.com/2009/07/01/gaikai-demos-how-to-serve-games-over-the-internet/ Perry s...

Naughty Dog gave a live chat yesterday in which they mentioned cloud computing as an engine feature. Excerpt from the live chat: 2:37 [Comm...

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...