What Is Ray Tracing? (And What It Means for PC Gaming)
Noticed your eyes widening a lot more when you game lately? If so, that may be because of a new technique that's spreading, slowly, across the game-o-sphere. The latest, most spectacular visual enhancements in PC gaming are brought to you courtesy of ray tracing, something that has only recently become possible in real-time with specialized hardware. Though ray tracing is commonly referenced in PC gaming, Microsoft's Xbox Series X and Sony's PlayStation 5 also have the necessary hardware and a growing library of games that support it. This article covers how ray tracing differs from traditio...