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No, it has nothing to do with mainstream next gen definition. It's not about consoles.
https://www.pcgamesn.com/real-time-ai-hair-rendering-deep-learning
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https://www.pcgamesn.com/real-time-ai-hair-rendering-deep-learning
Nvidia GPUs could use AI to power next-gen HairWorks models in future games
Researchers from the University of South California, Pinscreen, and Microsoft have developed a hair rendering technique powered by deep learning. This neural network can render 3D hair models from only a 2D reference image, and is the first of its kind to work in real-time.
If you’ve ever turned on Nvidia’s HairWorks in games such as The Witcher 3 or Final Fantasy XV, you may well have noticed your in-game performance drops significantly - even if it’s just Geralt’s lovely mop on the screen. Rendering a couple hundred thousand individual strands of hair is no walk in the park.
But AI researchers believe a convolutional neural network may have a use for this demanding task. Neural networks follow the same concept as the brain, connecting up various nodes in certain ways, across many layers, to classify information from an input into various groups. These deep-learning systems have a variety of uses, with image recognition and identification finding new use within rendering techniques.
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