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Episode 103: Some people got upset that we claimed Nvidia didn't deliver on their promised ray tracing future. So we discuss that, the RTX 20 series, how ray tracing was marketed, and whether we think it's lived up to the original hype
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00:00 - Chat About Ray Tracing
55:12 - Updates From Our Boring Lives
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