What's new in graphics

June 2019

Rosario Leonardi @ilMal3 12/6/2019

Me!

Rosario Leonardi

Researcher at Sony-Interactive-Entertainment.

Ideas are my own.

Next-Gen console revealed

PlayStation®

Mark Cerny inteview by Wired
Jim Ryan inteview by CNet

Xbox

CNet article

Microsoft published Dx12 specs

microsoft.github.io/DirectX-Specs/

Used for VR or to draw different passes at different rates

Binomial Open-Sourced Basis

Google Blog entry
github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal

Conferences!!

Tons of them! (3)

Unreal fest

10th - 12nd April, Prague

Colour management: A bird's eye view for digital artists

Presentation link

UE4 Raytracing for games

Presentation link

Digital Dragon

18th - 19th May, Krakow

Leveraging Raytracing HW acceleration in Unity

Presentation link

Bindless deferred decals in the Surge 2

Presentation link
digitaldragons.pl

Vulkanised 2019

May, 22nd in Cambridge

Optimising a AAA vulkan title on desktop

Presentation link

SPIRV-Cross: Taking SPIR-V to the next level

Nordic Games

May 22nd - 24th, Malmo

Triangles are precious

Presentation link

Global diffuse illumination

More in depth discussion, now with code.

Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Article + code

Volumetric path tracer

Sergen Eren
Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Code

Model View Projection

Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4;

SIGGRAPH 2019: Technical Papers Preview

Did you updated your driver?

nVidia release driver for enable raytracing on Pascal

nVidia Quake 2 RTX.

Get it here

Thanks to SIE.

Thanks to MPC for hosting.

You know, we are still hiring. https://www.playstationjobs.co.uk/ ;)