Ray-VR: Ray Tracing Virtual Reality in Falcor (2006.11348v1)

Abstract: NVidia RTX platform has been changing and extending the possibilities for real time Computer Graphics applications. It is the first time in history that retail graphics cards have full hardware support for ray tracing primitives. It still a long way to fully understand and optimize its use and this task itself is a fertile field for scientific progression. However, another path is to explore the platform as an expansion of paradigms for other problems. For example, the integration of real time Ray Tracing and Virtual Reality can result in interesting applications for visualization of Non-Euclidean Geometry and 3D Manifolds. In this paper we present Ray-VR, a novel algorithm for real time stereo ray tracing, constructed on top of Falcor, NVidia's scientific prototyping framework.