Yep. They haven't done anything new at all. It's not unlimited at all due to memory constraints (notice the huge amount of instancing in their vids) and their claims are frankly ridiculous - saying they can make a wii game look much better than a ps3 game etc. They also seem to be completely ignorant of modern techniques such as tessellation. There's a reason why no one in the industry has invested in them.
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Yep. They haven't done anything new at all. It's not unlimited at all due to memory constraints (notice the huge amount of instancing in their vids) and their claims are frankly ridiculous - saying they can make a wii game look much better than a ps3 game etc. They also seem to be completely ignorant of modern techniques such as tessellation. There's a reason why no one in the industry has invested in them.
Holy moly... this isn't a photo.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Glasses_800_edit.png
NVidia should produce a graphics card capable of realtime raytracing - then we be laughing.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Glasses_800_edit.png
NVidia should produce a graphics card capable of realtime raytracing - then we be laughing.
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ah - I was thought it sounded a bit too good to be true
no offence but that doesn't really look real at all.
Well, for now there is no such card in existence. If you think about what actually has to happen for an entire detailed scene with lighting, shadow, reflection and refraction to be rendered via ray tracing, we're talking about a collossal amount of horsepower to get it down to less than...a 30th of a second?
Ray tracing is good, but it's not the ultimate solution. One finds that in renders which actually use ray tracing, such as in movies, it's often blended with rasterization techniques. They take the 'best of both worlds' as it were to give the best scene render.
Whether we'll see growth towards products which can offer real-time raytracing to the level of detail which actually makes it a viable alternative in gaming to rasterization, I dont know. Who knows, someday you may get your wish
I don't think it looks that impressive to be honest, especially if you are talking about things looking real.
The glasses (especially the one with the ice cube) don't look real at all to me.
The counter top and the dice look real though
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The story writing in games need to vastly improve (in most cases) before graphics. THAT'S what makes a great game.
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Console ports are holding back PC graphics. We need more devs dedicated to PC gaming but sadly those days are gone and they are all greedy so make console games with badly optimised PC ports in most cases 
What sucks is that by the time games feel like real life, with convincing 3D / VR possible in the average home, I'll probably be too old to care about games.
Though think of the possibilities!
I'll NEVER be too old for gaming
Console ports are holding back PC graphics. We need more devs dedicated to PC gaming but sadly those days are gone and they are all greedy so make console games with badly optimised PC ports in most cases
I admire Valve and Codemasters for their dedication to the PC.
Regarding ray-tracing, I have the luck to be working on CG for feature films and we tend to avoid using it as much as possible.
It is insanely expensive compared to other methods for reflection/refraction, in my opinion realistic ray-tracing is a long way off being done by GPU. Saying that the Crysis 2 engine does seem to be making pushes towards the techniques we employ to make realistic CG, such as ambient/reflection occlusion, use of HDRI etc.
And to the comment about the characters in Avatar not being 'computer generated' - that is an insult to the industry
It is insanely expensive compared to other methods for reflection/refraction, in my opinion realistic ray-tracing is a long way off being done by GPU. Saying that the Crysis 2 engine does seem to be making pushes towards the techniques we employ to make realistic CG, such as ambient/reflection occlusion, use of HDRI etc.
And to the comment about the characters in Avatar not being 'computer generated' - that is an insult to the industry
the problem with cloud is we lack the network infrastructure to take the vast amounts of data needed going between Clint and server well the UK does (hurry up BT
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I don't think we are far off, but we need to stop thinking about graphics and go on to emerging the player into the world of which the game is set, thats not really with graphics ethoir I was more thinking stroy telling, physics. game play.
)I don't think we are far off, but we need to stop thinking about graphics and go on to emerging the player into the world of which the game is set, thats not really with graphics ethoir I was more thinking stroy telling, physics. game play.
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