AMD do realtime ray-tracing with Cinema 2.0

"this is a really novel way of rendering graphics, we're not using any polygons [...] every single pixel you see in the scene has depth and is essentially renderable as voxels".

Demo 1 (Ruby)

Demo 2 (Scorpion)

Demo 3 (LightStage)

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