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Matrix-Like VR Coming in the Near Future?

Posted by Zonk on from the can't-see-anything-bad-happening-there. dept.

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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  1. Re:This isn't the Matrix... by Plazmid · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well, that idea has a problem, brains don't do calculations very well when drunk. That's the reason , you see drunks stumbling around, because their brain is miscalculating balance. Not to mention the fact that brains are better at pattern recognition than math.

  2. Re:Yeah, but is there anything worth watching? by adrianwn · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Maybe in the new virtual worlds there'll be something good on TV.

    Probably Reality TV. Oh wait - something good. Never mind...