None of this is real.

[Greenman]

Quantum computing is the cold fusion of computer science. Maybe we'll have it some day, but I wouldn't hold my breath for it.

I spoke to a fellow the other day who's working on a quantum computer, he said they had a four bit model that works.

 

[Slick5150]

15 years is a hell of a long time in the computer world, I have no doubts games will look just as good or even better than that by then

Go ahead and look at a game from 95... What did we have by then?

Quake 1:

Battlefield 3:

Exactly.

Game visuals have improved by orders of magnitude in the past 15 years. So is it that big of a stretch to see them getting from where we're at now to where the OP's video is? Not at all.

 

[Kev]

Someone needs to bump this thread in 2026

 

[rival]

needs less focus in/out crap, hurting my eyes

 

[SSSnail]

Someone needs to bump this thread in 2026

Actually, I'm planning to necro it in about 5 years.

 

[Slick5150]

Someone needs to bump this thread in 2026

It'd be on par with whoever bumped the Duke Nukem Preorder post from 10+ years ago recently.

 

[Kev]

I just set a google calendar alert to bump this thread on June 27, 2026

 

[Kev]

mods plz don't lock

 

[Powermoloch]

whoaa

 

[IcePickFreak]

Pretty impressive. I couldn't help but notice the building at 9:25 with the articulated awning looks a lot like the Milwaukee Art Museum, and a few other shots looked pretty similar to parts of the interior.

 

[Tsaico]

I do think things have come a long way, but to do the same rendering real time, I am Krynj, it won't be happening on a console. Even if we loosely apply Moore's law, that same 15,000 cpus will be down to 468 or so, still out of the reach of a few hundred dollar console. Perhaps on the higher end gaming machines with graphics cards and the what not... But even so, I am sure I will still be just as amazed at what games looks like then as I am now. I am even impressed at stupid things like reflections on water surfaces and stuff like that, let alone photo realistic.

 

[Krynj]

Pretty impressive. I couldn't help but notice the building at 9:25 with the articulated awning looks a lot like the Milwaukee Art Museum, and a few other shots looked pretty similar to parts of the interior.

I believe some of the models were modeled after real buildings. He has a video where it shows him modeling one of them from scratch.