Innovation: Physics brings realism to virtual reality
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Read more at http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17389-innovation-physics-brings-realism.... Computer games have come a long way from the pixelated graphics of the 1980s to the more polished characters of today. But the inexorable creep of Moore's Law has now taken us to the brink of further giant changes.
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MUST...HAVE...MORE...COMPUTING
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just jump into a puddle in whatever game uses that and you hit a 2 hour long loading screen.
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Haha, that computer generated sound of water triggered me to go to the bathroom!
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@Xadreos your welcome :D
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The part with the tank looked like the game crysis. Lol
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@Xadreos Exactly. People who say "Graphics don't matter" are the ones not pushing the market forward. Your statement is very true.
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GET BACK IN THE KITCHEN~
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WANT
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come on science I want my holodeck!
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@therealTheBlack Or 150MHz. Computing power isn't only based on the frequency of a cpu. The waterfall would probably be calculated on a gpu anyway, rendering the cpu frequency even closer to useless.
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I love gamers for this reason: they fuel all computer based innovations. If there weren't video games, computers wouldn't even be half as good as they are, virtual reality would be nowhere near as advanced as it is, and the word graphics would be seemingly non-existant.
So essentially, thank you gamers. You fuel the future innovations so that even the casual and non-gamers can enjoy life a little more. =)
Xadreos 2 years ago 58
You're mocking her for saying that they need more computer power???
It's not like she's saying it as if it's a huge revelation or something nobody knows. It's a necessary statement that's relevant to the sentence that precedes it.
jmbishop511 2 years ago 21