The founder of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney has let it be known that he expects that videogame graphics will be ‘perfectly realistic’ in roughly 10-15 years. He expressed this opinion in an interview where he said “Probably 10-15 years for that stuff, which isn’t far at all. Which is scary–we’ll be able to saturate our visual systems with realistic graphics at that point.”
He continued to say “We’re only about a factor of a thousand off from achieving all that in real-time without sacrifices,” and “So we’ll certainly see that happen in our lifetimes; it’s just a result of Moore’s Law.”
However, Sweeney did talk on the subject of human graphics and admitted that this aspect would be much harder to achieve realistic graphics saying that “There’s another problem in graphics that’s not as easily solvable. It’s anything that requires simulating human intelligence or behavior: animation, character movement, interaction with characters, and conversations with characters.”
He went on to justify this comment by saying that humna behaviour is very hard to predict – “we just don’t have the algorithms; we don’t know how the brain works or how to simulate it.”
