You might be as surprised as I was to learn that Assassin's Creed Mirage is one of the few games to use AI neural texture compression—the only one, I think

You don't get something for nothing in the world of graphics, though, and when it comes to neural texture compression, all ...

Microsoft DirectX 12 Update Could Double Path-Traced Game FPS, Boost Game AI

The latest DirectX release standardizes advanced rendering features key to path-tracing performance and the use of AI in games.
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Training and Testing Texture Similarity Metrics for Structurally Lossless Compression

Abstract: We present a systematic approach for training and testing structural texture similarity metrics (STSIMs) so that they can be used to exploit texture redundancy for structurally lossless ...
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3D Point Cloud Attribute Compression Using Diffusion-Based Texture-Aware Intra Prediction

Abstract: There is an urgent need from various multimedia applications to efficiently compress point clouds. The Moving Picture Experts Group has released a standard platform called geometry-based ...

Direct3D's latest update adds Nvidia's ray tracing tech to the list of official features

Which should make devs a little bit happier.