Microsoft has taken the covers off its latest gaming/graphics programming interface, known as DirectX 12, that will be supported across Windows, Windows Phone and the Xbox One OS by next year.

The Redmond company has announced a new DirectX Windows application programming interface (API) that brings GPU-accelerated 'raytracing' to DirectX 12, its set of graphics APIs for developers that ...

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This, thanks to being the API used on Xbox, and its support for DirectX Ray Tracing. This is what Marcin Gollent, Leader of the game's Graphic Programming, stated in this regard: ...

DirectX 11 comes with a variety of new 3D programming effects for game developers, and AMD points to its ATI Stream technology for how its cards will take advantage of the graphics computing ...

The powerful new capabilities in feature level 12_2 represent exciting new possibilities for game and application developers. Microsoft Adds DirectX 12 Feature-level 12_2, and Turing, Ampere and ...

Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) that handle tasks associated with multimedia, especially game programming, the Windows Direct X 12 API being the ...

LaMothe, mathematician and computer scientist and author of the immensely well-received Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus, has reprised that technohit with the same thing for 3D simulation.