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The Matrix Is Unreal

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Re: The Matrix Is Unreal

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Post by andrepd »

dave_sullivan wrote: post #194
dougmwne wrote: post #70

The people trying to point out that this falls short of photorealism are missing the point. This is a tech demo aiming to show off the next generation leap unreal engine 5 is making. There’s lots to be impressed about here and this was made using a ton of procedural generation using a team of just about 70 people. Here’s a great deep dive into some of the new technologies that highlights the strengths and weaknesses…

The HN crowd's interest response has been so deadened by constant dopamine flow that they simply cannot be entertained anymore. "Meh" is the maximum level of emotional response that can be elicited. The invention of literal time travel, the invention of AGI, or the manufacture of a black hole as an energy source would all be met with mehs. Just a bunch of people dead inside. I still come here for the links and the 5%…

Are you implying AGI and time travel is at the same level as improved computer graphics?

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Post by Thaxll »

CraigJPerry wrote: post #195
unbanned wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

70 people is rather a lot.

I don’t know, i was kind of blown away by the length of the end credits screen in call of duty. I reckon there were several thousand names listed there. Fwiw this demo is on another level than call of duty. The world feels huge, extremely busy - there’s cars and people everywhere - and so varied.

> Fwiw this demo is on another level than call of duty. The world feels huge, extremely busy - there’s cars and people everywhere - and so varied.

Indeed, but the truth is it's just a demo, now when you add all the rest that's needed to make a real game you start to have issues that woudn't have with a demo.

Re: The Matrix Is Unreal

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Post by glitcher »

dave_sullivan wrote: post #194
dougmwne wrote: post #70

The people trying to point out that this falls short of photorealism are missing the point. This is a tech demo aiming to show off the next generation leap unreal engine 5 is making. There’s lots to be impressed about here and this was made using a ton of procedural generation using a team of just about 70 people. Here’s a great deep dive into some of the new technologies that highlights the strengths and weaknesses…

The HN crowd's interest response has been so deadened by constant dopamine flow that they simply cannot be entertained anymore. "Meh" is the maximum level of emotional response that can be elicited. The invention of literal time travel, the invention of AGI, or the manufacture of a black hole as an energy source would all be met with mehs. Just a bunch of people dead inside. I still come here for the links and the 5%…

I would caution against forming judgement on an entire population based on the loudest minority within them. In my experience there seem to be many more reasonable, restrained, and quiet folk out there. Now if the signal to noise ratio in the comments here is trending towards more noise for you, then by all means the comments are less useful and may not be worth the time at some point. But don't confuse the loud cynical voices as being representative for all of us.

Re: The Matrix Is Unreal

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Post by boringg »

dave_sullivan wrote: post #194
dougmwne wrote: post #70

The people trying to point out that this falls short of photorealism are missing the point. This is a tech demo aiming to show off the next generation leap unreal engine 5 is making. There’s lots to be impressed about here and this was made using a ton of procedural generation using a team of just about 70 people. Here’s a great deep dive into some of the new technologies that highlights the strengths and weaknesses…

The HN crowd's interest response has been so deadened by constant dopamine flow that they simply cannot be entertained anymore. "Meh" is the maximum level of emotional response that can be elicited. The invention of literal time travel, the invention of AGI, or the manufacture of a black hole as an energy source would all be met with mehs. Just a bunch of people dead inside. I still come here for the links and the 5%…

Your jaded view of HN may or may not be accurate but I think the general HN audience has already built in their expectation that the advancement of computer graphics will continually get better through incremental improvement not to dissimilar from chip development.

Is this impressive? Yes & kudos to the people who built this. Is it life changing in any meaningful measure? Not really...it isn't a scientific breakthrough or complete paradigm shift of understanding that will the lens which you view your existence? Probably not. And expectations of this already happening were built into how I see the steady march of technology development.

This is an incremental instead of step-function change in expectations and was already a pre-ordained outcome. You can argue that my expectations are to high and maybe this came earlier than expected but this isn't some shock to my system.

I suspect that I am not the only one who feels this way.

And if you are part of the team and just feel like people don't appreciate you work - that isn't the case. It is very impressive but it isn't a eureka moment of excitement (at least to me).

If I misunderstand the significance - please guide me to what I am missing here.

Re: The Matrix Is Unreal

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Post by tpmx »

martin_balsam wrote: post #201
unbanned wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

70 people is rather a lot.

I remember reading that the end credits of Red Dead Redemption 2 was something like 7000 people

Red Dead Redemption II (PS4) Credits

7318 people (4132 developers, 3186 thanks)

https://www.mobygames.com/game/playstation-4/red-dead-redemp...

Re: The Matrix Is Unreal

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Post by mekkkkkk »

This is super impressive and a huge leap toward photo realism. The draw distance and content streaming using nanite is nuts.

Next I want to see what kind of tech demo they can make run smoothly on a mobile device at 120Hz. I.e. does the tech scale downward too? Or is there no point to it unless you require extreme scale and fidelity.

Re: The Matrix Is Unreal

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Post by pohl »

glitcher wrote: post #214
dave_sullivan wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The HN crowd's interest response has been so deadened by constant dopamine flow that they simply cannot be entertained anymore. "Meh" is the maximum level of emotional response that can be elicited. The invention of literal time travel, the invention of AGI, or the manufacture of a black hole as an energy source would all be met with mehs. Just a bunch of people dead inside. I still come here for the links and the 5%…

I would caution against forming judgement on an entire population based on the loudest minority within them. In my experience there seem to be many more reasonable, restrained, and quiet folk out there. Now if the signal to noise ratio in the comments here is trending towards more noise for you, then by all means the comments are less useful and may not be worth the time at some point. But don't confuse the loud cyni…

No site will ever be judged by the quality of its lurkers.

Re: The Matrix Is Unreal

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Post by imwillofficial »

andrepd wrote: post #211
dave_sullivan wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The HN crowd's interest response has been so deadened by constant dopamine flow that they simply cannot be entertained anymore. "Meh" is the maximum level of emotional response that can be elicited. The invention of literal time travel, the invention of AGI, or the manufacture of a black hole as an energy source would all be met with mehs. Just a bunch of people dead inside. I still come here for the links and the 5%…

Are you implying AGI and time travel is at the same level as improved computer graphics?

No, it was saying that even a fantastic invention would fail to garner enthusiasm.
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