Game Face

I saw a commercial once that went something like this...."We've built a computer chip powerful enough to solve the world hunger problem. It is fast enough to find a way to cure all diseases. But, we decided to use it for gaming." This image is completely generated by a computer for use in a video game. The technology used to create this picture (and others on the picture archive) is about 3 years from being available to everyone in an actual game, but we should start seeing this level of computer graphics next year. I am amazed at how far we've come so fast from the 8-bit Nintendo games to realistic images in only about 15 years. I wonder what the next 15 years will bring. Where do we even go from here if the images are just as real as real life? Holodeck here we come....