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In 1 TB of RAM you can keep without any compression 3d array 1000m * 1000m * 64m of voxels with 1 voxel being a cube 2 cm * 2 cm * 2 cm. And you can lookup it randomly with negligible latency and do real time raytracing on it.

If that won't change games I don't know what can.

Besides GPUs will obviously also use this technology if it really works.

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this needs to be higher up.. that's awesome to know! ... we might actually be able to emulate the Ps3 on the computer! hah

I don't know what is special about emulating a ps3 on a PC, most mainstream PCs and GPUs are faster than the Power-PC based cell processor in the ps3 (an 8 year old console). Even the ps4 does not contain any better graphics processing capabilities than a recent relatively high end PC.

Even if you can look them up fast, doesn't mean you can run the raycasting logic fast enough on that amount of detail.

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