Friendly Computers found this article about how realistic graphics will be in video games. Read below to see what is predicted to happen:
In 10 to 15 years, video games might sport 100% lifelike graphics, says Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney in an interview with Gamasutra.
Sweeney -- whose studio is responsible for shooters Unreal Tournament and Gears of War -- tells the gaming site players can expect realistic visuals in games soon. Here's more from the Epic founder:
We're only about a factor of a thousand off from achieving all that in real-time without sacrifices. So we'll certainly see that happen in our lifetimes; it's just a result of Moore's Law. Probably 10-15 years for that stuff, which isn't far at all. Which is scary -- we'll be able to saturate our visual systems with realistic graphics at that point.
Sweeney says finding the computing power necessary to render these visuals and accurately modeling human behavior and interactions are the major hurdles to achieving realistic graphics.
Source: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2009/05/67280517/1
