NVIDIA is always on the right track when it comes to improving video games graphically and technologically. The proof is with this novelty.
NVIDIA is seriously working on the topic of artificial intelligence and the American company still strives to further develop its tools. to revolutionize tomorrow’s video game graphics. Some of its new products will be showcased at the SIGGRAPH 2023 conference, taking place August 6-10 in Los Angeles. The aim is to present 20 study points on the subject. And several points are directly or indirectly related to video games.
NVIDIA wants to revolutionize video game graphics
So is one of the research projects of NVIDIA offers a new approach to simulating the hair on a human head. It may seem quite harmless, but technically it’s still a noticeable term in the video game and its depiction. Managing more or less 100,000 hairs is a big technological problem for 3D animators. To solve part of the problem, NVIDIA just found a method that can simulate thousands of hairs in high resolution and in real time. For a brief overview, you can watch the video below. You have to admit it’s breathtaking and almost disturbing.
Real-time rendering simulates the physics of light reflected through the virtual scene. Recent research from NVIDIA shows how AI models for textures, materials, and volumes can deliver real-time, photorealistic, cinematic-quality visualizations for video games. A revolution? Imagine the last one Unexplored or The last of us with this possibility.
This rather fabulous work is based in particular on the performance of graphics chips, another specialty of NVIDIA (that’s a good thing). A good opportunity for the client to implicitly present the problem and the solution.
AI, a big challenge
In particular, in one of the twenty points raised by the NVIDIA company, there is a texture compression technique that would offer 16 times more texture detail without requiring GPU memory. (graphic) additional. All thanks to artificial intelligence. To a lesser extent, it already resembles the principle of DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling), which uses AI to generate additional high-quality images. It is easy to imagine how important such technology is for video games or even animated films. Soon, these AI-based technologies will make it possible to offer highly realistic representations of completely fictional people. Perfect for video game immersion may be slightly less for certain professions in this field.
NVIDIA says this research could also find important applications in robotics and autonomous cars.
