Sweeney: 5000 TFLOPS to reach "reality"

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Netyaroze said:

sales2099 said:
So basically, only EA, Activision, Sony, and MS can fund these in the future :P

Depends with new tools and techniques and less tricks content creation gets easier and faster. Alot of tricks are very timeintensive. Ray Tracing would become standard. Also there will be no need for new engines you will have just one. A perfect one that can do everything.

 

 

 

I really wonder what will happen if a PS7 has 5 Petaflops what direction will game development go. 

But there is still something Sweeney forgot. 5 Petaflop might be enough for 16k TVs and perfect graphics but what about 1000k Holo TVs.

 

HP developed a first Holo Display that can be seen from the side like the Princess Lea projection. This will probably be in Phones before we have 5 Petaflop GPUs.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/20/4128808/hp-labs-developing-a-holographic-3d-display

But to reach perfect picture quality in full 3D space with any technology, you would need alot more resolution than we have. All the resolution has now to go into a full 3D model  and the result is very grainy. 5 Petaflops won't be enough maybe 5 Exaflops this would be a real Holodeck then.

 

 

 

 

Oh yes! By that time we might actually move away from rasterization and use voxels for rendering games..

We'd probably have to wait a few decades for this to happen though lol.