Nvidia acquires Mental Ray Posted on 13/12/2007 at 17:39 by Nicolas
It’s now official. Nvidia has just acquired the German company mental images which developed the 3D rendering software Mental Ray. This was used in the Matrix Reloaded, Star Wars: Episode II and The Hulk but is especially used by Maya, XSI, 3D Studio Max, Houdini and even SolidWorks software. In short, it’s an industry standard in this area.
Nvidia says that it wants to leave its new subsidiary a degree of autonomy for day to day operations; however it will be interesting to see what future approach the Californian giant will take given that it has offered for several years now a GPU hardware accelerated rendering software called Gelato.
