how far are we from games being looking so real it could be confused for real

i been wondering this for years how far are we from playing game and saying omg is that real. Or if someone comes in and askes what movie are you watching and you say its not a movie its a game.

MLB the ShowIm_single

The technology to make photo realistic graphics is already there... and the technology to display them is already there (Workstation Servers with several workstation GPU's that cost thousands of dollars each used for making CGI films)... Consumers just can't afford it yet... it will probably be 7-10 years before the tech required to process such things will be mainstream and affordable...

Sports games are doing a really good job of it lately. The animations are mostly ok except when it gets herky jerky with sudden changes of direction. Otherwise, the visual fidelity is really quite good. It also helps that they use sports show themes on the screen... from commentary to the display of the scores, games like football, soccer and basketball look almost as good as real life.

I was reading this one article that said the human eye could always tell if an image is real or cg. It could be the most photo-realistic game ever, but the eye will always know its fake.clubsammich91

That is until 3D becomes maintstream... the reason this is true is because Humans have 2 eyes... so in reality, everything we see is from 2 perspectives... so until games are able to go 3D and use both perspectives of human vision... there will only be one perspective and that is what is on screen being shown through the one perspective of the screen...

I think we'll never reach that point before graphical demands put companies out of business.

Next gen?

First we have to go through that awful Uncanny Valley stage of visual depiction. I don't know when it will hit, but when it does...it's gonna suck.

20 years I think. We are barely reaching the level of first Toy Story today and if you look at even the best modern CGI movies they're far from being photorealistic enough to be confused with reality

A good decade or so, even the best Crysis pics and best mods for Crysis still are easily noticeable as being a video game. Even my girlfriend who's a complete dimwit when it comes to video games, and thinks the little Miis are the greatest thing ever (slight exaggeration) can notice that Crysis isn't close to real-life. Of course, the damn game looks absolutely breathtaking... but not to the level of real life.

A long way off, maybe stills look photorealistic but in motion the movements are still very stiff and inhuman, even animations as simple as blinking still look unnatural.

Do we really need photorealism anyways? I mean, I wouldn't mind the models now being more well rounded and having smoother textures, but ... I'm not really looking forward to photorealism.

A good decade or so, even the best Crysis pics and best mods for Crysis still are easily noticeable as being a video game. Even my girlfriend who's a complete dimwit when it comes to video games, and thinks the little Miis are the greatest thing ever (slight exaggeration) can notice that Crysis isn't close to real-life. Of course, the damn game looks absolutely breathtaking... but not to the level of real life.

Stevo_the_gamer

Certainly not in the next decade, and a lot longer than that before we start getting 'real' games that can use the technology (as opposed to just tech demos and games with minimal interaction).

not that far

socom confrontation looks like your in real life

when you have it on 1080p and take the color filter off

Not for a long time. Assuming we even get to the point where (affordable) consumer hardware can handle photorealistic graphics and developers can make photorealistic games on realistic budgets, we still have to deal with the moral/psychological issues (read: MMOs and "killing simulators"), as well as the fact realism is more than just pretty textures and lighting.

You haven't seen the GT5/Crysis vs Real life pictures?II-FBIsniper-II