Would be interesting to see what automation techniques arise from this. The closer we edge towards realism the more we are dependent on automated asset creation. With deep learning there could be some opportunities.
Imagine feeding a program a video from a walk through a forest and have it generate a whole virtual forest with thousands of unique trees with high quality self generated textures.
Because giant open world games are the ultimate goal for photorealism.
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