When is the next massive leap in computer graphics happening?
When is the next massive leap in computer graphics happening?
I don't think we're going to see another huge leap any time soon
Friday September 18th 2020
I think the only leaps that're gonna make people feel anything again is on the gameplay department
Once VR becomes affordable and widespread
Everything will be in 3D (for the viewer) and focus on textures will make a comeback now that polygon counts are reaching a logarithmic plateau. We will start seeing incredible detail up close on things as VR promotes looking at things from up close, and we may even see that voxel based I
infinite textures technology from back in 2008 or whenever start being used in games.
Ray tracing is the final frontier of real-time computer graphics, anything else until then is just a meme.
Where do you go from photorealism?
real time ray tracing is the single biggest leap in computer graphics since the first triangle was drawn on a screen.
AI
>waiting 2 weeks for your game to load because it has to generate NPC faces