Id Software-grunnleggeren, teknikkguruen, rakettforskeren og Oculus Rift-ingeniøren John Carmack spår en lys fremtid for PC-spilling innen de neste fem årene.
Under en tilstelning Nvidia nylig stod for fortalte han at grafikkortene vil være ti ganger sterkere om bare fem år. Han mente samtidig at vi kommer til å ha tilgang til nettbrett med oppløsning på 4000 piksler.
"Five years ahead, yeah, we can probably make credible comments about that. You'll still be able to buy Xbox One or PS4 new five years from now - unquestionably. There will be tons of content developed for that."
"We'll have 4K resolution displays on tablets and HMDs, and we'll have another order of magnitude pretty straightforward on there with Moore's law. GPUs are great at turning transistors into performance and we'll have ten times the performance. It means that you can probably run that triple 4K display at double the frame-rate from one GPU. That starts looking pretty impressive."
Carmack fortsetter og forklarer at den teknologiske utviklingen raser avsted, uansett om vi legger merke til detaljene eller ikke.
"There's a trillion dollars in economy pushing these things so a lot of that's going to keep going, and it's going to be great to sort of be along for the ride and figuring the kind of interesting systems areas, where there's a convergence of what becomes possible now, that people wanted before, as the sort of cornerstone of where the real innovation is going to happen."
"We can always turn the cranks on what we've already got and always get better, but the insightful things are when you notice something that you hadn't even thought about and previously dismissed as impossible is now possible and orders of magnitude just sneak up on you like this."
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Kilde: Eurogamer.