Geomerics to demo real-time radiosity on Xbox 360 at GDC

Saturday 03rd March 2007, 01:01:00 PM, written by TeamB3D

Geomerics has announced that they will be demoing their Enlighten technology on the Xbox 360 at GDC 2007. According to their website, "Full global illumination can now be computed in real time, with fully dynamic lighting environments" with their Enlighten technology. Geomerics has been boasting, among other things, real-time radiosity claims since July 2006 when they released a real-time trailer of their technology.

Geomerics is one of a number of companies attempting to bring products to the market under the heading of "real-time global illumination / radiosity". Although a number of games have used precomputed radiosity transfer (PRT) or other methods to approximate radiosity, traditional radiosity techniques have remained infeasible in a real-time environment due to their computational expense. According to TeamXbox, Geomerics claims to offer "real time global illumination and radiosity in environments with dynamically changing lighting conditions". Public comments on the technology thus far indicate that their technique is primarily targeting environmental lighting conditions.

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