The future of gaming graphics is here

by Stephen Heller Featured 44 Comments 42 Votes 6958 Views 07/02/2012 Back to News

As we enter into a new console generation, and with PC gaming really ramping up yet again, we're often wondering what the future of gaming graphics will hold for us. Thanks to this latest video, we have an idea.

This video shows off a new technology called Separable Subsurface Scattering, designed specifically to be used for human skin in video games. SSS was written entirely in DirectX 10, rendering everything that is visible in the trailer is being rendered in real-time. Want to see something jaw dropping? Run this video in 1080p and let the fireworks fly.

Want to see if your rig can handle it? You can download the original demo here and run it on your PC.

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Leasha

That's beautiful...

07/02/2012

In your house stealing your stuff..

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Heller

Imagine Nathan Drake running on that tech [Derp]

07/02/2012

Melbourne, Victoria

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truecolour

Bah too real more me. =D

07/02/2012

Sydney, NSW.

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Kenni

Holy shit, I thought that was a real person just from seeing the thumbnail. [WTF]

07/02/2012

ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ - The golden tsundere ratio is 8:2

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Heller

It's awesome, but quite frankly, a little scary!

07/02/2012

Melbourne, Victoria

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Tsunamo

Honestly, I hope gaming doesn't look this realistic in the future. I know it looks great, but I think you get to a point where looking too real takes out some of the beautifulness and uniqueness of games graphics and visuals that can only be enjoyed in gaming would be gone.

In my opinion anyway.

But yeah, this looks amazing. I really did think that was a real person.

07/02/2012

[Perth, W.A | MMGN]

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EndBoss

The eyes tells the whole story. He still looks like something out of a wax museum...

07/02/2012

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M@ndyz

Kenni said: Holy shit, I thought that was a real person just from seeing the thumbnail.

inorite [MOG]

07/02/2012

Add me on steam........... bootie [mmgn] Or raptr.......... bootie101 3024-5457-6221 Japanese 3DS friendcode for Animal crossing

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xXNitroXx

Wasn't this song in transformers the movie?

07/02/2012

melbourne victoria

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Nintendo

Meh, PS Vita can already do this now...

at .5 fps :P

07/02/2012

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Bayonetta

looks like Heavy Rain

07/02/2012

Gold Coast Queensland

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Heller

Go back and play Heavy Rain now....its not as good as I remember it being on release. Still good, but not as mind blowing.

07/02/2012

Melbourne, Victoria

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poxbox3030

So perfect they didn't add eyelashes - that makes it look weird!

07/02/2012

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LMA0

PS4 can do better [MOG]

07/02/2012

Outer West Sydney aka The Ghetto

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NinjaBoy

I'm all for the improvement of graphics but I'd rather have improvment in game narritive. When graphics start to get too real then I get scared because I play a game to escape realism not to see it even more. I like the cartoonish side of games, I like being able to tell that it is an animation due to some simple z fighting or shell shading.

07/02/2012

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DaNoSaUr

Looks amazing [MOG]

07/02/2012

Canberra

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edisside

Very cool also pretty scary as well.

07/02/2012

Melbourne, MMGN since 2008 , N64 <3

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Sumguy0

inb4 3D pr0n

07/02/2012

On a boat

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renagadez

1. no eyelashes

2. head is proportioned funny

other than that i am impressed

07/02/2012

Sydney, New South Wales

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renagadez

Sumguy0 said: inb4 3D pr0n

lol this guy

but it already exists

07/02/2012

Sydney, New South Wales

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LMA0

renagadez said:
Sumguy0 said: inb4 3D pr0n

lol this guy
but it already exists

yeah but if they had this graphics in 3D porn today then u won't feel guilty when u touch urself.

07/02/2012

Outer West Sydney aka The Ghetto

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Pilkingbod

Wii U launch title

you heard it here first

07/02/2012

Melting pot of friendship

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punk

the future of gaming graphics is bald people? :P
goes along nicely with the future of gaming is franchises/sequels

pilkingbod has the 2d version in his avatar...

07/02/2012

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Shitashi

renagadez said:
Sumguy0 said: inb4 3D pr0n

lol this guy
but it already exists

In China iirc. And it was a massive hit. [MOG]

STEALTH EDIT

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07/02/2012

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Anihilator

I checked the site and it looks like they haven't formed the eyes yet. Other than this looks beautiful. So realistic it's a little scary.

07/02/2012

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greenbob

The problem is humans are so accustomed to seeing the face that it will never look real enough. There are just too many twitches and subtle movements in every single gesture that its too hard to emulate. As a still with eyes closed it looks impressive. But once animated it will lose it's sense of realism

07/02/2012

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punk

greenbob said: The problem is humans are so accustomed to seeing the face that it will never look real enough. There are just too many twitches and subtle movements in every single gesture that its too hard to emulate. As a still with eyes closed it looks impressive. But once animated it will lose it's sense of realism

and unnecessary computations (subtle movements)

those subtle movements would be much better served on a high value production movie or storybook type "game" where there's little input by the user.

07/02/2012

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Pilkingbod

punk said:
pilkingbod has the 2d version in his avatar...

That generic man will never be Karl Pilkington!

07/02/2012

Melting pot of friendship

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Gaminggirl

Ahh nothing the ps3 is already doing

07/02/2012

Adelaide Crows

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Nintendo

Gaminggirl said: Ahh nothing the ps3 isn't already doing

Troll much?

07/02/2012

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Tano

I'd think it's easy to create such visuals without any movement, any physics. You'd think this tech has been around for a while, or at least hope it has been. At the end of the day it's the physics engine that is going to determine whether or not a graphics engine looks believable and awesome, or awful and/or "uncanny" (see "uncanny valley" on Wikipedia).

This is the first step. Now it's a matter of building the hardware and physics around what can be presented.

07/02/2012

"Niko! Cousin!"

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Gaminggirl

@ Sony you can say

Meh, PS Vita can already do this now...

But im trolling like double standards.

07/02/2012

Adelaide Crows

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Leasha

I fully downloaded the demo and its AMAZING!!!!!

Put shadows across his face, play around with blur techniques and a whole bunch of other stuff I have no idea about.

07/02/2012

In your house stealing your stuff..

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Mike2DMaxx4

Beta said: I'd think it's easy to create such visuals without any movement, any physics. You'd think this tech has been around for a while, or at least hope it has been. At the end of the day it's the physics engine that is going to determine whether or not a graphics engine looks believable and awesome, or awful and/or "uncanny" (see "uncanny valley" on Wikipedia).
This is the first step. Now it's a matter of building the hardware and physics around what can be presented.

that what I was thinking, put some movement and physics on that bad boy and see how it goes. The engine may need a bit of adjustment so it works with movements like stretches and grooves of a face in motion or folds of skin when turning it's neck. I mean after all the engine only does 'skin' so it still wouldn't be completely real with the environments we have in games anyway.

I really don't feel it's the character that sets our imaginations but the setting the story takes place where we immerse ourselves in the characters perspective. It's really not a scary thought, more beautiful than anything.

08/02/2012

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