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You can do amazing things in tech demos that are impossible in games on similar hardware ... I remember in 2001 (I think) I saw a Nvidia tech demo of a BDRF shader which made a little ball look like whatever material they wanted ... Currently you can get similar effects on the PS3 and XBox 360 but they tend to be scaled down versions on what was being used in the tech demo