NVIDIA and CD PROJEKT RED team up to bring ray tracing to Cyberpunk 2077

Right in these hours NVIDIA e CD PROJECT RED have announced that NVIDIA GeForce RTX is Cyberpunk 2077 Official Technology Partner and that the companies are working together to include real-time ray tracing in the game.

For those who still do not know him, Cyberpunk 2077 won over 100 awards at E3 2018 and is certainly one of the most anticipated games of this decade. The game is the new project from CD PROJEKT RED, creators of the acclaimed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which has won numerous “Game of the Year” awards. NVIDIA and CD PROJEKT RED have a long history of technology collaboration that has continued for over a decade. cyberpunk 2077 is an action-adventure story set in Night City, a megacity obsessed with power, glamor and body modification. You play as V, a mercenary outlaw who pursues a one-of-a-kind implant that is the key to immortality. You can customize your cyberware, your character's skill set and play style and explore a vast city where the choices you make shape the story and the world around you.

Speaking of the game Matt Wuebbling, NVIDIA's head of GeForce marketing, said:

Cyberpunk 2077 is an incredibly ambitious game, combining first-person perspective and intense role-playing, while creating an intricate and immersive world in which to tell your own story. We think the world of Cyberpunk will greatly benefit from the realistic lighting that ray tracing offers.

For the uninitiated Ray Tracing is the advanced graphic technique used to give films their ultra-realistic visual effects. NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs contain specialized core processors designed specifically to accelerate ray tracing so that game visuals can be rendered in real time.

Speaking of this technology Adam Badowski, head of the Studio of CD PROJEKT RED, commented:

Ray Tracing allows us to realistically represent the behavior of light in a crowded urban environment. Thanks to this technology, we can add another level of depth and verticality to the already impressive megacity in which the game takes place.

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