Inside Nvidia HQ: What a $2T Company’s Office Looks Like | WSJ Open Office - YouTube If you remember, the light simulation software mentioned many many times in this video (and which can even be seen early in the first few seconds), which helped to iterate over/create the NV HQ as-it-is, was of course, Iray ..read more

just in time for christmas, this comes with tons of updates to our toolchain and 3rdparty software, along with improvements for fibers/curves, displacement and the usual bunch of bugfixes all over the place ..read more

And once more, security patches and bugfixes ..read more

Something technical again for a change: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/solving-self-intersection-artifacts-in-directx-raytracing/ What is this all about? Hopefully the final chapter in finally solving the infamous self intersection problem (leading to images that are too dark and harmed by small (sometimes large) artifacts) that has been plaguing ray tracing based rendering since the very beginning ..read more

Next small bugfix release is incoming today ..read more

.. released. “Just” a lot of bug fixes and small improvements this time ..read more

vMaterials ..obviously fully supported with iray, as usual ..read more

Main features: Completely redone Caustic Sampler 2.0 with vastly improved precision and more complete simulation capabilities Full MDL 1.8 support General improvements to preprocessing and scene updates (with even more to come) Iray Server is now part of the normal Iray SDK licensing (=“for free” on top) ..and tons and tons of fixes and minor improvements all over the place. As usual, it will also be included as RTX Accurate inside of Omniverse as the Iray 2023.0.0 final arrives ..read more

just released, mainly bugfixes (e.g. huge frame buffer support, guided sampling scheduling ..read more

vMaterials | NVIDIA Developer ..of course, as usual, Iray already has full support for these ..read more