Earlier today, Qualcomm announced its latest and greatest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC during its Snapdragon Summit 2022 conference. In the same event, Oppo also took the stage to announce its new Ray Tracing solution, which will be offered to smartphone powered by the new flagship grade processor. So here are all the details.

The Chinese smartphone maker has already announced ray tracing for smartphones last year, but it was limited to MediaTek Dimensity powered devices. Now, the brand has unveiled its latest ray tracing tech, but this time, it is supported on the latest Snapdragon platform. Previously, we have also seen Samsung debut its Exynos chips with hardware accelerated ray tracing support. Now, Oppo has demoed its latest open ray tracing solution that will allow developers and creators to offer improved ray tracing experiences on smartphones with Qualcomm’s latest chipset.

The company’s new ray tracing technique uses a modified version of its proprietary PhysRay SDK that enables ray tracing “to be applied to complex, large scale game scenes on mobile devices.” Furthermore, Oppo also demoed this technology using a first-person shooter game called “Camp Guard,” that had more than 2000 physical models, 800,000 triangles, and close to 100 textures at Snapdragon Summit 2022. This was an interactive demonstration that showcased the improved shadows, reflections, and lightings thanks to the new technology.

Oppo claimed that the first person game can run at 720p resolution at 60fps for half an hour on a smartphone that is equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. The new ray tracing tech was developed by the smartphone maker in partnership with Qualcomm for “driver testing, shader optimization, and compiler tool development over the game scene.” Interestingly, this announcement also arrives a few days after the company unveiled its partnership with Unity, the company behind the popular Unity game engine to offer better gaming performance.

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OPPO showcased ray tracing on its phones last year. But aside from a few demos available on the Play Store to test the rendering technique, ray tracing has remained largely unutilized — at least until now.

Yesterday, at the Game Developers Conference 2022 (GDC), OPPO unveiled the industry’s first ray tracing application for smartphones in the form of the “ColorOS Ray Tracing 3D Wallpaper.” Visitors at the event got to check out the wallpapers on the OPPO Find X5 Pro Dimensity Edition.

Ray tracing is a graphics rendering technology that simulates the behavior of light as it would in the real world, allowing for more vivid and life-like virtual objects. OPPO first started developing its own ray tracing solution early in 2018. For the 3D live wallpaper, the brand adopted a hybrid architecture and dedicated hardware cores on the Find X5 Pro, putting the super-powerful Dimensity 9000 chip under the hood to good use.

OPPO says that the 3D ray tracing wallpaper will serve as a starting point for using the tech to explore future applications.

The ColorOS Ray Tracing 3D Wallpapers are also highly interactive, allowing a series of hand gestures such as rotation, taps, and waves to demonstrate animations. They’ll be presented to users of the Find X5 Pro Dimensity Edition as an APK later this year, as well as to developers in an SDK package.

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Earlier today, OPPO held its annual developer conference in Shanghai. This year’s event was called OPPO Developers Conference 2021 (ODC21). At the event, the company showcased many new developments. One of the most interesting ones was ray tracing on smartphones.

For years, ray tracing had been exclusive to computers. This feature enables the physical behavior of light in a digital environment to produce life-like content.

Ray tracing made its debut on gaming consoles with the release of Sony PlayStation 5 and Microsoft Xbox Series X/S in late 2020. Now, it is expected to trickle down to mobile devices like smartphones as early as 2021.

Ahead of that, OPPO demoed ray tracing on one of its current-gen OPPO Reno6 series phones at the OPPO Developers Conference 2021. Although the company did not mention the handset used, it appears to be an OPPO Reno6 Pro 5G as the MediaTek Dimensity 1200 chipset present inside the device has support for ray tracing.

OPPO stated that its ray tracing technology is based on Vulkan API and it is part of ColorOS. The firm also revealed that its tech can not only be used in games but also in live wallpapers, image filters, AR applications, and more.

Ray tracing on OPPO smartphones is expected to debut in 2022. The Chinese company will not be the only one to offer this tech next year. Samsung has also confirmed to debut ray tracing-supported new Exynos chipset with AMD mRDNA GPU. The new silicon will likely power the upcoming Galaxy S22 series.

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