[sldev] Re: [VWR] Real-time Raytracing

[Dzonatas]

Boroondas Gupte wrote:
> I'm really looking forward to have hardware accelerated ray-tracing 
> support on mass market computers. Might take quite some time till 
> that'll happen, though.
>

...within one year on the octacores.

It can be done on the quadcores, as they have shown, but that assumes 
most of the processing power is dedicated to RTRT. Also, the demos show 
more advanced lighting, shadows, and refractions than what SL would need 
at this time if we switched right over. Given sound, voice, and network 
and the rest, next years octacores makes a good starting platform to 
process it all.

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