[echoangle]

> simulating physics (also probably not something average joe wants to do every day)

Maybe this will be used for video games at some point?

Saying that this will never happen feels a bit like what people were saying about computers when they were filling rooms and cost a fortune, and now everyone has a few of them and finds a lot of uses for them.

[SonOfLilit]

Quantum computers help simulate the unintuitive parts of physics, not those that feel natural to humanst and therefore make sense to include in a game.

[yorwba]

It's possible to simulate the classical physics of fairly large game worlds using fairly small classical computer. If you wanted to model it using quantum physics instead (where quantum computers would theoretically have an advantage) said computer would need so many qubits that it would be much larger than the world it's supposed to simulate, while the additional realism would be essentially imperceptible to the player. You'd be better off using analog computing by putting a telepresence robot inside a real-world game arena.

[echoangle]

> It's possible to simulate the classical physics of fairly large game worlds using fairly small classical computer.

Not really, almost everything is faked and not really a physics sim. Imagine a world like GTA but every material has realistic deformation and destruction.

I’m not saying quantum computers would be able to do that, but it’s not like current video games are at a point where more compute wouldn’t improve them.

[tripledry]

> while the additional realism would be essentially imperceptible to the player

Personally for me this is the relevant part.

I can ofc imagine some niche games like Kerbal Space Program with complete realism, but I'm not convinced it makes it more enjoyable to play. Would be interesting to see for sure.

[Terr_]

Intel 486QX, now with quantum math coprocessor. :p

[tclancy]

“Intel inside! Maybe.”

[M95D]

Those that downvoted you didn't get the quantum joke.

[tclancy]

And then someone came along and downvoted you. Or maybe it’s just gamma rays.

Apparently some people come here for serious discussion. It’s like an alternate universe.

[hulitu]

> Apparently some people come here for serious discussion.

cough Microsoft, quantum cough That's not what I would call "serious discussion".

[M95D]

I always appreciate a quantum joke.

Anyway, the article is about Microslop, a mostly-sw company taking about hw quantum computers. What serious discussion is there? Someone just wanted to sell their shares.