artifexMar 16

Hope you like slop in your slop: Nvidia's DLSS 5 AI-infused tech transforms pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials

DLSS 5 is on track for a Fall 2026 debut and replaces a game’s original textures with AI-inflused versions to make them hyperreal. Or, out of one uncanny valley and into another!

Nvidia debuts DLSS 5 for increased visual fidelity in games — AI-infused tech transforms pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials

DLSS 5 is on track for a Fall 2026 debut

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Show threadTheObviousSolutionMar 17
Before people start going braindead circlejerk, the way it’s working is by changing lighting only, it isn’t changing geometry, making about 90% of the memes people are replying with wrong. Basically works best with games that have high resolution raytracing modes (like Cyberpunk) and on PC rigs people can no longer really afford.
Show threadlumpenproletariat

DLSS 5 fundamentals are based on a new real-time neural rendering model that greatly ramps up photorealism in games by combining “photoreal lighting” and lifelike materials.

It’s also effecting materials, such as the skin on her face in the example.

Mar 17 at 1:16amWeb
Show threadTheObviousSolutionMar 17
I assume material as in dev.epicgames.com/…/unreal-engine-material-proper…
Unreal Engine Material Properties | Unreal Engine 5.7 Documentation | Epic Developer Community

Material Properties in Unreal Engine define how a Material can be used and how it interacts with incoming light.

Epic Games Developer