I definitely didn't mean to step on anyone's toes because I've obviously upset some folks. Let me apologize for that first, I'm sorry. I'm just throwing my points out there (without namecalling) from what I've learned from looking into this since I first saw it a while ago and offering my skepticism. To Hooker - ouch dude.

I've followed this tech since I first saw it in like 2003....and really nothing new has happened to it. Maybe that's why I'm so indifferent. I'm not saying that one day, this might have some momentum to it. Seriously though, they've been working on it for at least seven years and have yet to do something useful with animation? Shadows? Something please? Lol

I'm not saying it's not possible. Of course it is - we see it in the video. And yes, it does look really really good. But honestly though, it's going to be a decade or more before anything useful comes out of it because we simply don't have the means to handle that much data. The entire demo it's just a bunch of instances. It's bunch of objects replicated over and over facing the same direction. You can do amazing things with instancing. That's why it actually runs at 20fps. Also, the entire island surface is completely flat. Did anyone notice that? Lol.

I've spent many hours looking at this tech since it resurfaced a few months ago - because it's interesting. But there's just nowhere for it to go right now. Polygons work great. And no, they're not as ugly as you're shown in the video, those are terrible examples. Look at gameplay for BF3...it's stunning. Polygons + tessellation = just as much detail. Let's say on a typical 1920x1080 screen there are roughly 2 million pixels...which is nothing for today's video cards to handle at high framerates. So if I stuck one polygon per pixel on my screen, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Polygons aren't the limit...RAM and disk space footprint is.

For Euclideon to go anywhere in the game market, they need to be able to demo and optimize:

-Realtime shadows
-Fluids and particles
-Deformations
-Skins
-Skeletal animation
-plenty else.

Reezy, I've seen the video. If you're talking about the goofy neon lsd giraffe trippy shit showing collisions and animation, that's from 7 years ago.

Why do I look ignorant, lol? I've really taken the time to look into this stuff. Take some time and just browse some developer/coding/game dev forums on the subject and you'll see what I mean...

Again, sorry for stepping on toes and farting on others' pillows for stating my skepticism and giving reasons for it LOL.

Just browse around their website and see what you'd think if you wanted to take them seriously...I lol'd.

http://unlimiteddetailtechnology.com/description.html

impossible

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Interesting choice of punctuation-

lol at the last few post and also nothing is impossible we just don't know how to do it yet. First thing they drill into your head at B school is that the answer isn't no we cant do that, the answer is we cant do it that way we need to find another way to reach the end goal. I am a firm believer that this can be applied to any business and any product. I may not know how to do it but if i gather enough talent and get them the funding to focus only on this tech i will build a business that brings you the new wave of gaming tech. Competency traps are the biggest reason we have disruptive innovations that change industries. TI and their processors, is you look at the history of HDs each company that was the leader at one level failed to grow and adapt to where the market was going and was replaced by companies like Euclideon.