Forget about ray tracing – physics is how gaming will take its next big leap forward

The message has been pretty consistent for the last six years now: ray tracing is the next big frontier for gaming. A revolutionary way of lighting 3D environments that had previously only been possible via offline renders at Hollywood effects studios, this fancy new ray tracing thing that modern graphics cards can do would bridge the gap between movie-level CG and the real-time graphics happening before our astonished eyes on our monitors. And let’s not dismiss ray tracing –

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