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How come the latest cutting edge tech demos showcasing photorealism are barely more ‘realistic’ than a PS4 video game cutscene from a few years ago? There wasn’t any part of the demo video where the guy looked or moved like a human.

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Those cutscenes weren't rendered in real-time, instead taking longer than one second to render one second of video. This one is rendered in real-time. It's impressive for sure to render lifelike humans, but to do so in real-time is even more impressive.

Yes, but that's the point. The should have released it as an App that we can interact with, pan around, move the chess pieces. It might as well just be a video.

Actually they should have plugged in stockfish and let us play against their character.

> Those cutscenes weren't rendered in real-time

Don't most games use realtime cutscenes these days? Nothing shown here is a gigantic leap to what you see in Death Stranding for example. I'm not looking at her and seeing an actress it still just looks like a very good 3D model.

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