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The power of ray tracing

PS5 promises to bring the realistic light show of cinema CG to next-gen games with the inclusion of hardware-based ray tracing. We’ve heard a lot about this visual wizardry over the past 18 months, and even recently experienced it in a limited way with Crysis Remastered’s software-based approach.

But what is it, and why should you care? Put simply, ray tracing is a method of simulating realistic light in

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