---
title: 'Introducing Vulkan Ray Tracing Position Fetch Extension'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/blog/introducing-vulkan-ray-tracing-position-fetch-extension'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/blog/introducing-vulkan-ray-tracing-position-fetch-extension.md'
date: '2023-05-15'
---

#  Introducing Vulkan Ray Tracing Position Fetch Extension 

  May 15th at 10:03am

 On April 27, 2023 the Vulkan® Ray Tracing TSG released the VK_KHR_ray_tracing_position_fetch extension, which exposes the ability to fetch vertex positions from an acceleration structure hit when tracing rays. 

 [ Read More  ](https://www.khronos.org/blog/introducing-vulkan-ray-tracing-position-fetch-extension)

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