If you don’t believe realtime ray tracing is real—see Chaos

  Chaos has been a leader in ray tracing since they started the company 21 years ago in Sofia, Bulgaria. Their program, V-Ray, has been used in innumerable designs and a dozen movies. Seeing the Chaos people at Siggraph was always enjoyable, but predictable—exchange a few jokes, see some beautiful pictures, make a date for drinks, break the date. Not this time. If this is what you were used to looking at when you went to a ray-tracing demo, those days are over  Typically the demo’er would chat about the latest development while pressing keys and hoping he’d keep you sufficiently