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The XR Week Peek (2022.07.04): Big tech companies perform budget cuts, Mojo tests its smart contact lens in-eye, and more!

The Ghost Howls

When I attended university, ray tracing was described to me as something that was impossible to obtain in real-time, so when NVIDIA finally enabled it in realtime on PC GPUs, it felt like an enormous step forward for technology. This is of course the base technology needed for foveated rendering. Image by Unity Technologies).

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Intel to Buy Imagination Technologies or AMD’s RTG?

VRWorld

More recently, AMD spun off its engineering teams under the Radeon Technologies Group, which is lead by Raja Koduri. Acquiring Imagination Technologies. Imagination Technologies is a company close to Intel, and the Santa Clara giant already owned a 5% stake in the company. Acquiring the company could happen for approximately $1.0-1.5