Tag: GDC

As we said in this post last month, Imagination is once again at GDC to demonstrate our leadership in mobile graphics. On the first day of the event we hosted a very successful, packed-out panel session on ‘The Future of VR and Mobile Graphics’. This was a very thought provoking session featuring experts from companies that spend a lot of time … Continued

Last year we debuted a collection of PowerVR ray tracing demos designed to improve significantly the aesthetics of real-time and offline rendering. One particularly exciting use case is the interactive lightmapping feature embedded inside the soon to be released update to Unity 5. Even though Imagination is primarily known for the hardware GPU IP we license to silicon vendors, we embraced Unity’s write once, … Continued

The title of this post uses the word ‘revelation’ instead of ‘revolution’ because mobile game engines are only inching their way toward using full-on ray tracing. The mobile game community wants ray tracing but the roadblock has been the lack of hardware fast enough to keep up with the challenging frame rates. This is where Imagination’s optimised for mobile, PowerVR … Continued

The Games Developer Conference (GDC) is a major event in the gaming industry’s calendar. It is famous as a celebration of entertainment culture that’s bursting with companies and individuals looking to create new and exciting visual experiences. For those in the industry, it is a must-attend event. One big trend across GDC in recent years has been the rise of … Continued

Michael Kissner is an indie game developer. With a past in mathematical physics, he has always been interested in the physical aspects of light. His passion lies with computer graphics and the hope to one day fully simulate all aspects of light in real-time. Computer games have been a natural by-product and for his current game Spellwrath he has created … Continued

The focus of this posting is to show Unity artists how easy it can be to add true reflections and shadows to their content using our hybrid rendering techniques. The PowerVR OverDrive game runs live, rendering with a PowerVR ray tracing GPU installed in a Linux-powered computer. Using an Xbox 360 controller, you drive around in a monster truck, smash … Continued

At the end of January, I was at the ISART Digital in Paris to join a panel discussion titled New Graphics APIs discussion panel at the dawn of Vulkan. The meeting was organized and chaired by Christophe Riccio from Unity and focused on the Khronos Group’s new Vulkan graphics and compute API. Vulkan is a next-generation API for grapics and … Continued

With our world-leading PowerVR GPUs already in the hands of over 2 billion users, Imagination delivers the leading solutions for mobile, AR/VR, and other embedded graphics platforms. At this year’s Game Developer Conference, we will be hosting a day of developer sessions on our PowerVR GR6500 ray tracing GPU and Vulkan. You can also visit our booth (#1902) at the GDC … Continued

This year MWC and GDC 2015 are happening during the same week which is unfortunate for me because I really enjoy going to both events. Although attended by different demographics, a common theme you will be hearing next week is how the exponential increase in performance is paving the way for console-quality graphics on next-generation embedded devices, including smartphones and … Continued

We have some great news: Imagination is organizing a full developer day packed with interesting sessions at GDC 2015; called idc15, it will be held on March 3rd inside room 302 of the South Hall and features talks and expert panel discussions aimed at helping you boost your game development across all devices with PowerVR graphics. idc15 – March 3rd, … Continued