This is quite exciting for augmented reality applications - I think it's a reasonable assumption that the next iteration of Hololens will have some sort of hard

This is quite exciting for augmented reality applications - I think it's a reasonable assumption that the next iteration of Hololens will have some sort of hardware acceleration for this (like Nvidia's RTX w/ Volta announced today). Relevant: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/shedding-some-realistic-light-on-imaginations-real-time-ray-tracing-card/?comments=1&post=23723213 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/shedding-some-realis... "I am 90% sure that the eventual path to integration of ray tracing hardware into consumer devices will be as minor tweaks to the existing GPU microarchitectures." - John Carmack