Microsoft experimenting Realtime Raytracing

https://twitter.com/XboxP3/status/439673026699751425

Phil Spencer: We've done experiments with Realtime Raytracing. A ton of potential with this tech, amazing visuals.

What is Realtime Raytracking?

In computer graphics, ray tracing is a technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light through pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of its encounters with virtual objects. The technique is capable of producing a very high degree of visual realism, usually higher than that of typical scanline rendering methods, but at a greater computational cost. This makes ray tracing best suited for applications where the image can be rendered slowly ahead of time, such as in still images and film and television visual effects, and more poorly suited for real-time applications like video games where speed is critical. Ray tracing is capable of simulating a wide variety of optical effects, such as reflection and refraction, scattering, and dispersion phenomena (such as chromatic aberration).

Amazing. This is what we have to look forward to in the future. Its a good time to be a gamer.

480i incoming

plz keep it in testing fase MS

That's nice. Shame we gotta wait for the Xbox Two for it to show up, considering how bad the Xbone's hardware is.

480p @ 15fps coming up.

Don't worry, if you sit far enough from the tv you can't tell the difference ;)

why cows so jelly? don't be, you got Knack.

Microsoft said "4K gaming will be possible in the future"

Ray tracing and Tiled resources will bring this future.

Sony will continue trying to squeeze graphics and framerate to keep up but will be passed 10 fold.

Im pretty sure Ps4 owners obsessed with graphics will try to avoid this thread and act live it never happened.

Just give me great exclusives and I'll be happy, sick of this current drought.

i dont blame developers or publishers i bet this gen games requires alot more patience and work than last gen.

4K Pong.

Only when you're connected to the Internet though.

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/killzone-4-uses-raytracing-for-its-real-time-reflections/

Yawn...

Didn't developers say these systems are easier to develop for?

What the hell? You just Google'd "ray tracing" and picked a bunch of screenshots that were rendered on the PC, without citing the sources. And it says nothing about them experimenting this "tech" on the Xbox One.

If you actually had a clue of what Tile resources would be for,you would not be saying such stupid sh**.

Tile Resources has nothing to do with the xbox one GPU been capable of achieving 4K,the damn console can barely do 1080p let alone 4k,some of you are delusional fanboys.

240p, fps of a powerpoint presentation

and yet they did not use it in game. you showing video that was before e3 2013 which was just a room test... but not in game

Oh but they did,not to mention The PS3 had ray traced cloud in Warhawk...

lol..

The xbox one will probably have some cheap ass effect to try to emulate it,Ray tracing is very expensive and can be use basically in few small areas,it still is to costly even for stronger cards on PC.

And your article says MS are experimenting. Exactly the same as the link he's just posted only a couple of years late...

Nope

Where is real time clouds in Warhawk? There were not. I played myself, you lying fanboy.

You can go through those clouds,they are volumetric real time ray traced clouds my blind fanboy friend and i put more than 200 hours on warhawk,owner since day 1.

By the way nice using a still image to show ray trace clouds...

yeah yours is just experimentation aint it? lolllll FreedomFreeLife burned again :D love it

360p

10fps

Incoming.

you just proved you have no idea what you talking about. You don´t even know that meaning. Go back and buy a life.

@FreedomFreeLife: lol owned @tormentos

Killzone Shadowfall has real time ray tracing and like I've said a billion time, the PS4 supports tiled resources EXACTLY like the Xbox One.

haha damnn

ray tracing best suited for applications where the image can be rendered slowly ahead of time, such as in still images and film and television visual effects, and more poorly suited for real-time applications like video games where speed is critical

esram is said to be too small for a 1080p buffer,

and you think it can do 4k?

do me a favor,

next time you take a shit,

stick your head in the toilet,

and tell me if it stinks

@FreedomFreeLife: well I guess that is another thing that Microsoft lost to sony

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-the-making-of-killzone-shadow-fall

killzone shadow fall has ray tracing.

face it lems,

the system you guys keep hyping cannot possibly be the xbone,

it is too far behind to be relevant.