Nvidia showed an improved version of their Marbles RTX demo during the RTX 3000 launch event. What makes this new demo so impressive is that it appears to handle dozens of small lights without breaking a sweat, something which is notoriously difficult for a path tracer, let alone one of the real-time kind:
Making of Marbles RTX (really fantastic):
The animation is rendered in real-time in Nvidia's Omniverse, a new collaborative platform which features noise-free real-time path tracing and is already turning some heads in the CGI industry. Nvidia now also shared the first sneak peek of Omniverse's capabilities:
... and real-time path traced gameplay:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1304091196214534145
Be sure to watch this one, because I have a feeling it will knock a few people off their rocker when it's released. I can hardly contain my excitement!