Amiga

Ray tracing is not a new thing. But what was done on the Amiga 30 years ago is quite different from what people talk about today. We're talking about real time ray tracing - that is technically challenging and requires computational resource every millisecond orders above what was available in an Amiga.

As Isaac Newton (and others before him) put it - we're standing in the shoulders of giants. In 30 years may lament that people forget what was happening in 2023 when they look at the technology of the day.

!remindme 30 years

Oh wait, this isn't Reddit.

There’s a huge difference between real-time ray-tracing and playing back ray-tracing. The fact that the whole Juggler demo was created and pre-rendered fully on an Amiga was impressive for sure, but that’s not what we mean today when we talk about ray-tracing.