Ashraf Aiad goes over how to incorporate the iRay function in your favorite 3D application and in this case your favorite 3D application is Maya 2011! You will need to have Mental Ray Standalone 3.8.1 in order to use iRay.
“In order to incorporate the iray function in your favorite 3d app, you will need to have an installed copy of mental ray Standalone 2011.
I have been using Maya in my tests so here is an example of what I’ve done.”
“iray® is the world’s first interactive and physically correct, photorealistic rendering solution. With iray, users can quickly create life-like images of their creations by using intuitive, real world approaches and interactively exploring their results through the processing power of NVIDIA® graphics processing units (GPUs).”
Looks awesome. It would be cool to see some performance comparisons between iray and octane with different gpu setups.