phaselock Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 So, I just got this from the grapevine. And it doesn't seem like (at least from my initial read of the theory) it can't be made for browsers or that babylon can't have DXR support. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/directx/2018/03/19/announcing-microsoft-directx-raytracing/ Any thoughts ? @Deltakosh @davrous or anyone else ? PS: Not sure which forum this should go, but I thought since we have microsoft devs working on the babylon engine here...it wouldn't hurt to ask, right ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsichiX Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 well, any gpu based html5 renderer works on webgl and current upcoming standard is webgl 2 which is just opengl es 3, which does not have many desktop features. so for browser gpu raytracing you'll have to wait couple of years within webgl 3. phaselock 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 Unfortunately we have no way to get access to that until browsers decide to expose it through a web standard phaselock 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaselock Posted March 22, 2018 Author Share Posted March 22, 2018 Aye, I think it will come to the web standard eventually. Would be great if babylon could take the lead to show a demo of it. That said, DXR demonstrated in star wars: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davrous Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Be assured that if there's a way to do ray tracing in Babylon.js from JS/WebGL, we'll do it But as @Deltakosh said, it's going to be a very long time before being accessible from web standards. phaselock 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V!nc3r Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 https://www.crowd-render.com/single-post/2018/03/22/Reflecting-on-Real-Time-Ray-Tracing Quote The demo you see here is running on a server grade Nvidia box worth $150'000. This piece of gear packs 4 of Nvidia's latest Volta based V100 cards for a total processing power of 1000 TFLOPs!! To put this in perspective, for the money you could buy 50 Titan V cards. BitOfGold and phaselock 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Yeah sure with a computer that costs more than a Tesla car phaselock 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BitOfGold Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Yeah you can buy this monster, its 25% off now (And Its G G O O L L D D ) https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-systems/ phaselock 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaselock Posted March 24, 2018 Author Share Posted March 24, 2018 Do web apps need 100% raytracing capability akin to cgi, HD, 60fps movie quality requirements ? Even if the tech matures in the future, I still don't see overwhelming need for high level of photorealism on mobile devices. Even for online desktops applications in say 2030, a 50-60% performance should be plenty for web developers, no ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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