Learn about Ray Tracing with Vulkan on Android: Review

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What you've learned

You should now know how to:

Describe how the Vulkan ray tracing API works.
Describe how to use ray tracing to implement realistic shadows, reflections, and refractions.
Implement basic ray tracing effects in a Vulkan renderer.

Which of these is the recommended way to do ray traversal on Arm GPUs?

Ray query

Ray tracing pipeline

When designing acceleration structure, which of the following statements is true?

Empty space does not matter, reduce BLAS overlap.

Minimize empty space and minimize overlap.

BLAS overlap does not matter, reduce empty space.

On Arm GPUs, neither empty space nor BLAS overlap matters.

Can reflections handle objects outside the screen?

Ray tracing reflections can reflect objects not on the screen but Screen Space Reflections can only reflect objects on the screen.

Both Screen Space Reflections and ray tracing reflections can reflect objects not on the screen.

Neither Screen Space Reflections nor ray tracing reflections can reflect objects on the screen.

Ray tracing reflections can only reflect objects on the screen but Screen Space Reflections can reflect objects not on the screen.

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