Well, it’s 2019 now – the 50th anniversary of our trip to the moon – so Nvidia has of course now applied RTX technology to an updated version of the demo. In Nvidia’s own words: They even showed the tech off to Buzz Aldrin himself. That allows artists to instantaneously see accurate reflections, soft shadows, global illumination and other visual phenomena. The advantages are obvious – RTX means that the artists didn’t need to replicate every reflection accurately and wait for a server farm to render the scene. They could simply recreate the light source (also known as the sun) and the object’s light will reflect on, and let the RTX tech do the magic in real-time. You could move the sun in and see how it affects illumination on the astronauts and moon lander on-the-fly – allowing for further debunking of conspiracy theorists. You can watch it for yourself here: The only disappointing thing about all of this is that Nvidia didn’t provide a downloadable demo for people to try out themselves. You better pony up, Nvidia, or else wackjobs are going to call this moon landing fake too.
