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Imagination Technologies ray tracer for 360-VR videos

You can make more beautiful, and faster Imagination Technologies introduced their real-time, hardware accelerated ray tracing engine in late 2012, after their acquisition of Caustic in 2010. It went by the name of Power VR Ray Tracing and has been renamed Wizard GR6500. The company has been trying to find a buyer for the technology, and today no one has ...

Jon Peddie

You can make more beautiful, and faster Imagination Technologies introduced their real-time, hardware accelerated ray tracing engine in late 2012, after their acquisition of Caustic in 2010. It went by the name of Power VR Ray Tracing and has been renamed Wizard GR6500. The company has been trying to find a buyer for the technology, and today no one has publicly stepped forward. However, that may not mean anything as IP deals happen in the background, and often take years to materialize in the form of testable silicon. One could assume the management of Imagination would not continue investing resources
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