RayTracing Explained - What Is Raytracing?

RayTracing, SSR, SSAO, and Ambient Occlusion! What does it all mean?! We dive into it here to give you a simple explanation and breakdown of the history of how RayTracing came to be available in the PC mainstream games market in 2018, and what it means in modern times after it was released for current gen home games consoles in 2020 to close the gap. Remember, just because a game has good looking god rays, does NOT mean it has been ray traced e.g. Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla discussed within the video!

This video is only intended to be a quick and simple explanation for RayTracing hence the video title card ‘RayTracing for Dummies’, and therefore it does NOT cover a highly complex detailed breakdown for RayTracing implementation such as Cube Space, RT cores, caustics, path tracing, and so on. If that’s what you were looking for this video is probably not for you, but for more information on those - see the NVIDIA link in the bottom of the description which explains those. NVIDIA is a highly respected and trusted source in the electronics market.

Disclaimer: The information in this video has been sourced and quoted directly from NVIDIA and other reputable manufacturers of computer electronics (the source for NVIDIA referenced at the bottom of the video description). The sole purpose of this video is to educate, and entertain, not start a console/PC war in the comments. Please be respectful in the comments for those that are here to learn, and to myself as it takes a lot of time and effort to produce these videos and to gather all the research and information. All hateful or disrespectful comments will be reported or removed. Peace and love guys.

All information was verified and compared against by NVIDIA website for accuracy:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/....