Video: Chaos Group's new real-time ray tracing system
'Project Lavina' demo shows 300 billion triangles rendering at over 25fps on a single commercial GPU.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
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Eye candy: Unity's amazing photorealistic Adam demo
Updated: See the complete, near-six-minute short. Runs in real time on a single GeForce GTX 980.
Monday, June 20th, 2016
Video: Enlighten's Seastack Bay real-time GI demo
Beautiful Ninja Theory-created demo showcases new open-world tech in the UE4 and Unity lighting system.
Thursday, March 17th, 2016
Eye candy: Nurulize's amazing Rise UE4 VR demo
Check out this gorgeous sci-fi scene, running in real time in 4K on Unreal Engine 4 and an Oculus Rift.
Thursday, March 5th, 2015
Video: see Vulkan, OpenGL's replacement, in action
Watch an early alpha demo of the next-gen graphics API running on a PowerVR Rogue mobile GPU.
Thursday, March 5th, 2015
Video: water effects in Unreal Engine 4
See how Epic Games set up the fluid and particle effects for its UE4 Infiltrator tech demo.
Monday, December 9th, 2013
How to recreate Gollum with four consumer camcorders
Watch Fabrice Visserot's amazing homebrew mocap set-up recreate a key scene from The Two Towers.
Thursday, August 29th, 2013
Eye candy: The Dark Sorcerer PS4 real-time tech demo
Quantic Dream's 12-minute mini-epic takes real-time graphics to a strange new realm: animated comedy.
Wednesday, June 12th, 2013
Cool tech: Disney Research's DuctTake compositor
See the system merge two takes of a shot with no more artist input than a few quick scribbles on the footage.
Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
Eye candy: Quantic Dream's PS4 real-time facial demo
Our tech shows the soul in a character's eyes, David Cage tells the PlayStation 4 launch audience.
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
Video demo: Square Enix's Luminous Studio editor
Updated 20 December: Watch two new videos of real-time edits to the Agni's Philosophy next-gen demo.
Thursday, December 20th, 2012
Eye candy: Jaw-dropping new CryEngine 3 demos
Crytek releases stunning new tech demo and clips of 11 projects being completed in the game engine.
Friday, March 4th, 2011