https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Embree-Ray-Tracing-Kernels/About-Embree-2-0/m-p/994208#M312 1) Embree 2.0 beta makes rapid progress, but no release date can be annouced at the current point.<BR />2a) We are working on fast acceleration structure builders on MIC.<BR />2b) We have not looked into updating/refingine acceleration structures in Embree. We may want to do this as interaticve application scenarios become a more common use case for ray tracing.<BR />2c) We consider a shading language to be part of the rendering layer. Given that Embree's focus is on the underlying accleration structure builders and traversal kernels, we have no plans to add a shading language to Embree anytime soon. Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:23:52 GMT Manfred_Ernst__Intel 2012-08-29T21:23:52Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Embree-Ray-Tracing-Kernels/About-Embree-2-0/m-p/994207#M311 Have seen Intel Siggraph presentation slides about Embree 2.0 MIC support and have some questions suggestions:<BR />1 Can we expect some beta be avaiable at MIC products release launch?.<BR />2 I know is more easier said than done but it makes sense to evolve Embree to a more like Optix library?<BR />&nbsp;where we have:<BR />*fast dynamic and HQ structure acceleration builders tuned for MIC (similar HLBVH 2 in NV Optix parlance): would be good to compare timings of fast NV builders vs fast ones on MIC..<BR />*even faster accel structure updates/refinement (coming Optix 3.0)<BR />*makes sense to expose some raytrace shading language? (similar to Caustics OpenRL or NV Optix one) perhaps using some OSL (open shading language)..<BR />etc.. Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:09:47 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Embree-Ray-Tracing-Kernels/About-Embree-2-0/m-p/994207#M311 rtfss1gmail_com 2012-08-28T09:09:47Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Embree-Ray-Tracing-Kernels/About-Embree-2-0/m-p/994208#M312 1) Embree 2.0 beta makes rapid progress, but no release date can be annouced at the current point.<BR />2a) We are working on fast acceleration structure builders on MIC.<BR />2b) We have not looked into updating/refingine acceleration structures in Embree. We may want to do this as interaticve application scenarios become a more common use case for ray tracing.<BR />2c) We consider a shading language to be part of the rendering layer. Given that Embree's focus is on the underlying accleration structure builders and traversal kernels, we have no plans to add a shading language to Embree anytime soon. Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:23:52 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Embree-Ray-Tracing-Kernels/About-Embree-2-0/m-p/994208#M312 Manfred_Ernst__Intel 2012-08-29T21:23:52Z