Demonstrate hardware-accelerated global lighting ray tracing solutions with the help of the O3DE engine
London, UK – 23 March 2022 – Imagination Technologies unveiled its next-generation mobile gaming graphics solutions at the Game Developers Conference 2022 (GDC 2022). Using the Open3D Engine (O3DE), an open-source cross-platform 3D engine, Imagination ran a hardware-accelerated global lighting ray tracing solution for future retail devices. Imagination's PowerVR open source GPU driver has been accepted into the Mesa 3D graphics library, starting the process of contributing code to the Kernel. This is an important milestone in creating an open ecosystem for developers.
In addition, Imagination announced a partnership with King to help drive innovation among developers in the mobile gaming industry through joint research and development.
Chris Porthouse, Chief Product Officer at Imagination, said: "Our twenty-year journey has set us on a path to revolutionize mobile gaming graphics. Today, we launch the first hardware-accelerated mobile ray tracing solution, enabling us A real milestone has been reached.Imagination’s recently announced IMG CXT GPUs offer original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) the possibility to implement RTLS Level 4 ray tracing capabilities, enabling more processing to be performed on the hardware for greater efficiency. "
Royal O'Brien, General Manager of Digital Media and Gaming at the Open3D Foundation, said: "Partnering with a company like Imagination can help accelerate the delivery of next-generation graphics processing capabilities to developers to shape the future of mobile gaming. Mobile GPU Solutions Performance is often sacrificed to maintain power efficiency. However, our partnership with Imagination has enabled us to effectively remove these limitations while enabling innovative hardware-accelerated ray tracing capabilities on top of the open source Open 3D Engine. We look forward to continuing to expand our joint Successful cooperation."
Pierre Gufler, Senior Studio Technical Director at King, said: "Having developed a number of highly sought-after games for mobile devices over the years, we have a deep understanding of how to create unique gaming experiences for players. One of the key tasks when gaming is to provide players with an immersive and interesting visual experience. We have been working with Imagination to provide our developers with more tools to create unique graphical gaming experiences for users around the world."
Ray tracing can be performed at different performance and efficiency levels. In order to clarify this point, Imagination established the Ray Tracing Levels System (RTLS), which determined 6 levels of ray tracing from Level 0 (Level 0) to Level 5 (Level 5). The Photon architecture used by IMG CXT is at RTLS level 4, making it the most advanced solution currently available, increasing ray tracing performance and efficiency to deliver a desktop-quality experience for mobile gamers and developers.
Chris Porthouse, Chief Product Officer at Imagination, added: "As part of our aim to bring efficient and innovative mobile ray tracing capabilities to developers, we have partnered with AWS to deliver Come showcase our Global Illumination Ray Tracing demo. Built around future retail hardware, the demo will be demonstrated live during our sponsored session slot at GDC 2022."
About Imagination
Imagination is a UK-based company that creates semiconductor and software intellectual property (IP) to give clients an edge in the competitive global technology market. The company's graphics processing unit (GPU), central processing unit (CPU) and artificial intelligence (AI) technology can achieve superior PPA (power consumption, performance and area) indicators, fast time to market and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) ). Products based on Imagination IP are used by billions of people around the world in their mobile phones, cars, homes and workplaces.
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