Matrix-Like VR Coming in the Near Future?

Anonymongoose writes "A researcher at Brookhaven National Lab reckons it could be just a few years before computers can pass through the uncanny valley. The article refers to this as a 'Graphics Turing Test': 'a computer can be considered intelligent if it can create an artificial world capable of fooling a person into believing it is the real thing.' Michael McGuigan has been performing some interesting experiments using Brookhaven's Blue Gene/L supercomputer and has shown that it can produce realistic lighting effects in real time. McGuigan's original research paper (pdf) is available online."

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Re:This is assinine.

[j1m 5n0w]

Maybe they'll do a teapot next!!!

You obviously haven't visited the tachyon home page. (Tachyon was the renderer used.)