[nothis]

Just had the video play without sound and my girlfriend said she thought it was real before she noticed the overlay text being weird. We just went to Amsterdam, too

I agree that we'll be shaving off these last 3% of visual artifacts for a while (honestly, on a good setup, games have been looking like this for 5+ years, the main thing this video has is photogrammetry and lighting). But this does look realistic.

[lm28469]

It look like an architecture renders from 2010. The last 3% will never be shaved off because we're not using the right techniques. CGI in star wars are realistic, as in you they can fool 99% of people even when paying close attention. Video games are realistic if you glance at a video of them from 3 meters away while being busy doing something else

I guess it depends on your definition of realistic, I'm a photographer, everything screams "fake" in these supposedly "realistic" games. Some of them are artistically pleasing (rdr2, tlou2, &c.) I'll give you that, but everything is off, the lightning, the camera movement, shadows, reflections, depth of field, motion blur, textures, ...