Saturday, December 22, 2007

Compression makes things look more real?

I took some more footage on the n95 pointing at the screen with a replay of 360 PGR 4 running, then sent it to youtube using Shozu.
The opposite of the uncanny valley then seems to occur. The game looks great in HD, but crunched down and youtubed the in car stuff looks even more realistic.
What do you think?

It is this sort of approach to immersion in virtual worlds that seems to work best. We need to either see things perfectly rendered or fill in the gaps ourselves to engage with an emotional response to people.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:35 PM

    Wow...If I hadn't known it was a simulation beforehand, I might have been fooled. That's astonishing.

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