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Impressive sense of realism in level of detail variety..show the potential...BUT consistency, sharpness and realism of object boundaries would not survive close inspection.
Can't wait for ads to be inserted into games with this...
To me this was the least interesting part of the Stadia reveal. State share was the real innovation imo. Would any serious game studio use style transfer ml to actually replace their visual artists? Didn't seem like the quality was there. That said, it is an awesome PoC. Just not something I see being practically applicable.
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> Would any serious game studio use style transfer ml to actually replace their visual artists? No, a serious (AAA) studio would not. OTOH, the platform might intend to support producers that aren't AAA studios, and whose limited pre-release resources are focussed on gameplay more than art assets, and those producers might view it very differently than AAA studios.
You still have to do all the work of building the geometries for the art assets, are you really saving that much on not having to color/texture those assets?
Consensus in this thread seems to be that this is a neat gimmick but nothing else. Maybe because I have a friend working on a video game as a solo developer, and putting a /lot/ of energy/money/time into art--I really see the potential in this (type of thing). This is not really for the player's benefit to put on whatever mods they want. This is for fast iteration for artists and creators to automate a huge (sometime…
> Maybe because I have a friend working on a video game as a solo developer, and putting a /lot/ of energy/money/time into art--I really see the potential in this (type of thing). For that usage Nvidia's thing was way more interesting: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/03/18/gaugan-photorealist... That gets you usable texture assets super quickly, which is probably what your solo developer friend spends the most tim…
If you're building a photorealistic game. And there's already lots of tools on the market to generate these sorts of textures.
I could see this Nvidia thing used for much better looking mockups / concept art. But it doesn't seem suited for final asset generation.
To me this was the least interesting part of the Stadia reveal. State share was the real innovation imo. Would any serious game studio use style transfer ml to actually replace their visual artists? Didn't seem like the quality was there. That said, it is an awesome PoC. Just not something I see being practically applicable.
It is another example of forced intrusion of DL techniques creeping into places where it is not needed in the first place.
Can't wait for ads to be inserted into games with this...
A few days ago I commented on the Stadia on HN and basically predicted the same thing. Does not seem to be a popular opinion however..
Is anyone else concerned this will be yet another Google product that goes by the wayside in a few years? This has essentially become my biggest fear now with any new product they announce/release.
It's pretty much a certainty with this project, in my opinion. Until everybody somehow has gigabit lines to their home and to their phones, I don't see this becoming popular. Like most Google projects, their actual success period is most likely 10+ years away, and the project will be axed long before then.
I'm normally very skeptical of Google's motivations, respectful of their cloud technology, and doubtful about many of their products. But I think this one will be a success, and shortly followed by competing products from Amazon and Microsoft.
this suggests that we may soon have better AMD support in TensorFlow.