
Players chasing realistic lighting and reflections in games often run into the same frustrations. Ray tracing looks impressive in theory because it simulates how light actually bounces around a scene. In practice, engines fire fewer rays than ideal to protect frame rates, which leaves behind grainy noise that older cleanup tools struggle to fix without blurring details or creating odd trails behind moving objects. NVIDIA addressed those issues with a new version of its Ray Reconstruction feature inside the DLSS family. The update relies on a second generation transformer model trained on far more data than before. It processes 20 percent more parameters and handles 35 percent more computations internally, yet it keeps performance roughly in line with the previous release.

LEGO has teamed up with The Pokemon Company for a fresh wave of sets that add real-time reactions to classic construction play. Twelve new SMART Play sets go on pre-order today and reach stores August 1, 2026. The line mixes brick-built Pokemon figures with a special hub brick that reads tags hidden in the models and responds with lights and sounds tailored to whatever scene a builder creates.

Waymo recently opened its newest vehicle to select riders in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix. The company calls it the Ojai. This one differs from every earlier Waymo vehicle because engineers designed it from the ground up as a robotaxi instead of starting with a regular passenger car and adding self-driving gear later.

CryZENx has released another substantial update to his ongoing project that rebuilds The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in Unreal Engine 5. This time the focus lands squarely on the twisting interior of Jabu-Jabu, the massive fish-like guardian from Zora’s Domain.

Chris Scott, owner of a brilliant red NSX, was at a Japanese car gathering in York, England, when he spotted a vintage Honda Motocompo folded up tight, and he knew right away that this was the perfect time to finally get an answer to a long-standing question: could the little 80s folding scooter fit inside his powerful mid-engined sports car? The Motocompo initially arrived on the market in 1981, as a useful accessory for the Honda City hatchback.