how far off do you think real-time photo-realistic rendering is from being commonplace? do you believe it's already possible with existing hardware or requires some new technology leap to make it onto the home desktop?
i'm not talking about the barely passable quality of the nvidia accelerators, but more along the lines of renderman quality.
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how far off do you think real-time photo-realistic rendering is from being commonplace? do you believe it's already possible with existing hardware or requires some new technology leap to make it onto the home desktop? i'm not talking about the barely passable quality of the nvidia accelerators, but more along the lines of renderman quality.