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Re:Vulkan Memory Allocator by pjmlp on Thursday July 22, 2021 @07:50AM (#27917794)
Hardware raytracing was designed by NVidia and Microsoft together while creating DirectX 12 Ultimate, shown to the world in an Unreal engine based demo of a starwars lift scene, it has zero to do with Vulkan.
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Re:Vulkan Memory Allocator by atq2119 on Thursday July 22, 2021 @08:00AM (#27917870)
I doubt either of us were in the relevant rooms, but the API is very obviously a DX-ification of Nvidia's OptiX (the software-based raytracing solution that they released long before HW raytracing). Furthermore, Nvidia released OpenGL and Vulkan extensions for raytracing long before the release of DX12 Ultimate. Do you think Microsoft would have allowed that if it was a genuine co-development by the two companies?
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