Re:A Peek Inside the Niantic Real World AR Platform
by opencl on Friday June 29, 2018 @10:13AM
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Why do you expect it get better at a significantly higher rate than it has been over the past several decades of computer graphics? Is there some major up-and-coming research on the topic?
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Re:A Peek Inside the Niantic Real World AR Platform
by erikpukinskis on Saturday June 30, 2018 @06:27PM
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No, just a kind of Hegelian turn. Computer graphics have been oriented towards emulating photography for many years. That project is nearing its end and still realism is lacking.
As people start to realize there is more to seeing than just photography, we will enter an era of discovering more sparing uses of computation.
Look to painting for a possible progression. Realism/classicism was just an early maximum. Impressionism followed. And then many other movements. Contemporary painters can do much more with much less.