Ambient occlusion is a low-cost technique to simulate indirect ambient illumination in a realistic way. In this dissertation, we propose an ambient occlusion method that achieves good quality results in real time. Using an efficient voxelization algorithm, we create a volumetric description of the geometry in a regular grid. During the scene rendering, the hemisphere around each visible point is sampled by several cones, each one corresponding to the trace of multiple rays. The volume of each cone is sampled by a serie of spheres, which are used to compute the cone s volume obstructed by the scene geometry. The occlusion caused by the geometry at each visible point is estimated by accumulating each sphere result in the cones and each cone result in the hemisphere. We found this approach to be adequate, since the intersection of each sphere with the voxelized scene can be performed in a very efficient manner.