NVIDIA debunks moon landing conspiracies with Maxwell

Posted on Sunday, September 21 2014 @ 20:43 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

At the company's GAME24 event, NVIDIA debunked a popular moon landing conspiracy theory by showing off Maxwell's new Voxel Global Illumination (VXGI) technology. NVIDIA basically recreated the moon landing footage in Unreal Engine 4 to proof that the way Buzz Aldrin is illuminated when he's coming down the lunar lander ladder is possible with just one light source (the sun):

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