How long before VR gets real?
By real I mean visual or photographic realism. Currently we have comic-book reality - I'm sitting in my comic-book living room, with my comic-book wife and my two comic-book children (then I put on my...
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"g4c" wrote:
12 years ± 2 years VR will be photorealistic for mass consumption thanks to realtime ray tracing (path tracing).
Ray tracing gives massive freedom removing most of the constraints imposed on artists by current 3D engines. No longer does one have to worry about drawcalls and material approximations. perfectly "real" shadows and lighting falls out for free.
Something better than the brigade engine will run solid 90Hz on standard rig and card at QHD or greater resolution.
The noise artifacts one sees in the following video will be gone, remain alive for a ~decade and it will be here:
way way earlier if you combine it with this machine learning filter recently introduced from siggraph
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d-VNP8WKIo