Graphical realism? Whats your thoughts?

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shponglefan:

--- Quote from: Titchgamer on January 23, 2018, 03:27:11 am ---As lets be honest some games could be seen as “real” if it were not for the fact we are looking at TV’s.
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This to me stands out why VR is such a dramatic leap forward. As good as graphics have improved or as screen resolutions continue to climb, traditional monitors/TVs are limited by the fact its just a 2D surface. Our brain instinctively knows that whatever we are looking at is just a flat, 2D image.

Whereas my experience with VR is that it removes that limitation and puts one inside the game world. Even though the visual fidelity of current VR displays are less, the addition of an isolated visual environment, 3D stereoscopic display, and motion tracking more than makes up for the difference. Consequently even a graphically simple VR game can be far more immersive than the most graphically lush monitor-based game.

shponglefan:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 23, 2018, 12:35:01 pm ---Eh, unless there is a dramatic leap in tech, games aren't going to look real anytime soon. Currently they look fake as hell....
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The one exception to this is racing games. I saw a GIF that someone posted on Imgur recently of an F1 race. It took watching it a couple times before I suddenly realized I was watching a video game and not a real race. Blew my mind.

Screenshots too have a photo-realistic quality to them. Just looking at some of the Project Cars 2 screenshots and one might mistake them for a real image. It's amazing how far the lighting in those games has come.

Howard_Casto:
Well if you'd read the whole post I mention specifically that living things can't be faked and that you can sometimes get away with landscapes and backgrounds, you know... in-animate objects. Cars only have limited moving parts and the motion of those parts can be easily calculated to near perfection. I agree completely that racing games look pretty darn close atm.

pbj:
Racing games in VR are borderline spooky. It's getting very convincing.

Titchgamer:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 23, 2018, 12:35:01 pm ---Eh, unless there is a dramatic leap in tech, games aren't going to look real anytime soon. Currently they look fake as hell....

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But think how far they have come.

Go back to half life, By todays standard the GFX are poor but at the time they were pretty amazing with the ability to talk to characters and see some basic facial expressions.

Jump to modern COD and as Randy has pointed out they are almost photo realistic.

If current VR had the same graphical ability you could be forgiven for thinking what you were seeing was real.

I know I have said this before but hell there will probably be a star trek hollo deck in the not so distant future!

Prob not in our life time but I reckon it wont be long the speed which the industry moves at.

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