What will be the limit?

stormy13 · 28 Feb 2013

Britton30 said:

Perhaps a true 3D game. Maybe a game , and yet to be invented hardware, with an interactive holographic image. One could manipulate the holograms by a virtual touch and handle virtual objects.

This is close,

Ray tracing (graphics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

but not possible on today's hardware, at least at anything that would resemble playable frame rates yet.

Thorsen · 28 Feb 2013

stormy13 said:

Britton30 said:

Perhaps a true 3D game. Maybe a game , and yet to be invented hardware, with an interactive holographic image. One could manipulate the holograms by a virtual touch and handle virtual objects.

This is close,

Ray tracing (graphics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

but not possible on today's hardware, at least at anything that would resemble playable frame rates yet.

This is the first thing I thought as well.

That and improvements to tessellation for textures. I could see a mix of raytrace and tessellation being implemented together Either depending on the object or environment being displayed or a setup where an image is being created realtime as a raytrace and then updating the tesselation textures overlaying objects to match the image that would be displayed.

Full ray tracing would be far off. It would look sweet though :)

There were some mentions in the article that were promising though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_Wars:_Ray_Traced

Also this looks pretty sweet...