Work with usOur history / Breda, Netherlands
Founded in Breda in 2019. Built through hardware research, game engineering, open source and a community that keeps growing.
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2019
The beginning
Traverse Research was founded in Breda in July 2019. Three desks and a question that would shape the company. How will games run on hardware that does not exist yet?
Early micro-benchmarking work for Imagination Technologies included a pre-silicon ray-tracing benchmark suite. Rendering research and hardware understanding were connected from the start.
Where the hardware research led2020
Open source / Breda framework
Traverse joined the Khronos Group in June. Our Rust-based Breda framework connected Vulkan through ash and DirectX 12 through winapi, with windows-rs adopted later.
November brought the first major gpu-allocator release, infrastructure that would later appear in Firefox’s graphics dependency stack.
Explore the open-source ecosystem2021
Games / Simulation / Light transport
Our engagement with Embark Studios began in January. Applied Intuition followed in May, the same month Breda’s first real-time path tracer was implemented.
AMD research added another hardware perspective. The work now connected game studios, simulation needs and the architectures beneath them.
The Embark collaboration
2022
SIGGRAPH Asia / Neural rendering
NeuBTF was published at SIGGRAPH Asia, with a public project and implementation. A learned representation of material appearance became a research result others could explore.
Mobile ray-tracing characterisation and acceleration-structure investigations continued alongside ReSTIR direct lighting, triangle lights, clouds, volumes and hair.
Explore NeuBTF
2023
GDC / Research meetups / Mobile graphics
Breda’s first public demonstration appeared at GDC in March. A rendering meetup followed in Breda in July, bringing the work into the local community.
In October, we demonstrated ray tracing for Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S24 release. University collaboration and a broader machine-learning roadmap grew alongside the demonstrations.
The Samsung showcase2024
Eurographics / GPC
November brought the first Graphics Programming Conference in Breda, co-founded by Jasper Bekkers, Johan Andersson and Matthäus Chajdas.
That year, Hannes Vernooij’s coated-material Fresnel model appeared at Eurographics. Meta hair-strand rendering, Evolve development and neural research continued in parallel.
Meet the conference
2025
Benchmarking / Published research
Evolve launched in March. In December, Samsung and Traverse’s mobile neural radiance caching work was published at SIGGRAPH Asia, alongside the release of a free Evolve demo on Steam.
The year also brought work on Microsoft’s HLSL offload test suite, Qualcomm workload evaluation and localisation, ray-traced Gaussian research for a desktop GPU vendor, and continuing mobile neural work.
Read about the mobile NRC publication
2026
Evolve / Neural graphics / SIGGRAPH
LTT Labs published its independent Evolve evaluation in February. Jasper de Winther brought Traverse’s mobile GI work to the Moving Mobile Graphics course at SIGGRAPH.
Our engineers continued to share implementation work through publications, technical articles and open-source tools, bringing the mobile rendering research into a wider conversation with other practitioners.
Explore the SIGGRAPH course and publications