What I'm getting at is there will be modeling, lighting, and animating "by hand" like before.
Not that this would be the best example, but one of these systems should be able
to be shown a picture of some lake in a park, you can ask for a Mario and Master Chief scenario
and entities that act expectedly Mario and Halo-like appear in world, exhibiting their default behavior.
How long would it take to build that in Unity or Unreal?
Yeah, everyone knows that times a million. That's not the point.
You have 100,000 PCs, each with a hot GPU vs. AI gen-ed from a load balanced server farm someplace.
All things being equal, and they're not, the AI generated stream experience would be superior,
infinitely customizable and scalable and reactive in ways beyond the design studio world's plans.
And contrary to some opinions, probably using way less power and way less dedicated hardware.
Like I said, we're not there yet, but it's possible and we've seen it.
It's just a matter of scale, mostly at this point.
What will a 'Game Studio' be?
The era of parametric shapes and vertices and triangles and shaders will soon be done and gone.
Game views, and the scenarios themselves will be generated on the fly, by request,
rendered by some AI engine, to meet one's specific, custom view requirements.
Music and voice too. It will be the way it's all delivered.
Not yet, but soon. A way easier path to hyper-realism than having to model and light it all,
and as we've seen, that they can't do it today without requiring an Nvidia space heater.
The estimates of the number of children who died due to cuts in USAID is in the tens of thousands. Still terrible, but you don't serve any constructive purpose by exaggerating by several orders of magnitude.
In 2001 supposedly it really was "human error". Some humans told Hal 9000 to lie to the astronauts and not reveal that an alien artifact had been found on the moon. And that was a mistake as they probably either knew or could test what would happen to Hal.
This is remarkably similar to things going wrong with AI now, actually.
"They can't move to Nashville because the actors won't move with them. They can incorporate in Nashville but who the fuck cares anymore? If you're not going to pay taxes in my state why would I care whether you incorporate in my state? "
There's so much wrong with that sentence, and yet it pretty much sums up why California lost hundreds of millions of dollars of production to other states (and countries), because the politicians in California believed the same thing until it was too late. It's the myth of American exceptionalism but applied specifically to California.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
"By 2025, the cost of filming in California was so high relative to other jurisdictions that it was cheaper to fly Rob Lowe all the way to Dublin, Ireland and back to host the game show The Floor, along with 100 American contestants, than to simply film the show in California.[19] About that, Lowe said: "Itâ(TM)s criminal what California and L.A. have let happen â" itâ(TM)s criminal. Everybody should be fired.'"[19]
A side effect of outsourcing film and television work is that fewer apprenticeships are available to the next generation of California filmmakers. This is slowly eroding the concentration of experience and know-how which had made Hollywood unique.[8] As show business jobs continued to evaporate steadily during the 2020s, Los Angeles was widely seen at risk of becoming the next Detroit.[19] The January 2025 wildfires pushed many filmmaking professionals to their breaking point.[19] Financially, it made more sense for many of them to move to the places where their jobs had gone, than to try to stay and rebuild.[19]"
To give a specific example of another city in the US that has become a major film power house - Atlanta:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
"Trilith Studios is an American film and television production studio located south of Atlanta in Fayette County, Georgia. Originally known as Pinewood Atlanta Studios, the studio has been used to produce many films and television programs, particularly those produced by Marvel Studios. Trilith Studios encompasses a 700-acre site, with a 400-acre backlot and 32 soundstages.[1] A virtual production volume, Prysm Stage, opened in early 2022. As of 2024, Trilith Studios is the largest production facility in the state of Georgia and the largest outside of Hollywood."
Atlanta is only a day's away by plane from Los Angeles. Same thing with New York. I know people in the film industry who commute outside of LA to work for months at a time (because even though they'd rather work close to home... there's no work here.) It's not like this is a new thing - think about it - how else do you shoot on location?
But even Atlanta is feeling the pinch as production moves overseas these days.
"The first production to film at the studio was Marvel Studios' film Ant-Man (2015), which began in September 2014.[5][6] Marvel primarily shot their films at the facility for nearly a decade until 2025, where they changed their primary filming location to London."
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcinedrones.com%2Fupdates...
"On July 2, 2025, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill increasing Californiaâ(TM)s Film and Television Tax Credit Program from $330 million to $750 million annually, a significant step aimed at luring productions back to the Golden State. The legislation, hailed as a lifeline for an industry battered by a âoequadruple-whammyâ of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023 writersâ(TM) and actorsâ(TM) strikes, Southern California wildfires and fierce competition from other regions, is projected to generate thousands of jobs and billions in economic activity. Yet, industry insiders and data suggest this boost may be too little, too late, as Los Angeles continues to lose its grip on film and TV production.
According to FilmLA, the film office for Los Angeles, shoot days in the region plummeted to 5,048 in the third quarter of 2024, marking the weakest quarter of the year and a 22.4% drop from the same period in 2023. Overall, 2024 saw just 23,480 shoot days, the second-lowest figure recorded outside the pandemic-stricken 2020. Since 2022, California has lost an estimated 17,000 entertainment jobs, with the stateâ(TM)s share of national film and TV employment dropping from 35% to 27%. These numbers paint a stark picture: Hollywood is bleeding, and the new tax credits may not be enough to stop the exodus."
You're clearly not in tune with the local news here. Film production is way down. Studios are essentially banks, and have been for decades - they package deals and get financing. The days of the studio system ended half a century ago. There are equally nice places outside of California (Vancouver, B.C. being one of them) that have successfully doubled for shooting locations in the US, and yes, they have union crews there.
Finally, you make it sound like studios don't pay taxes. Regardless of the financial accounting tricks they play (like killing already completed movies), I'll tell you the guaranteed taxes they do pay: payroll taxes for all the hourly and salaried employees that are working in the state, which covers medicare, social security, and state unemployment insurance.
itâ(TM)s literally the only site I can think of that canâ(TM)t properly display text.
There, fixed it for you.
Actually probably not the chip is larger, but the lens is larger. The aperture allows it to be less blurry in bright light.
The chip is larger so it collects more light and thus improves low-light photography, but this would make bright-light photography worse (by reducing depth of field). The aperture fixes this for bright light, thus allowing the better low-light performance.
The examples comparing prices are all comparing them to battery-backed systems that can continuously produce the rated power. The solar panels or wind turbines will be capable of far higher peak power that is used to charge the batteries. I have no idea whether any numbers being quoted here are accurate, but the posters are absolutely describing "base power" when quoting their prices.
There was a parking lot there before. And LA has plenty of other examples of similar architecture, some of it considered LA landmarks
Reading scores fell more sharply in students from better-off backgrounds
Sounds like at least we have achieved equality in stupidity!
But for a zoomable world map, the Mercator projection isn't too bad. Most of the time you are not opening Google Maps to see a view of the whole planet. You will zoom in to a smallish area, and within that area, the shape and relative sizes are preserved. OK, zoom level 5 in Iceland is a different magnification from zoom level 5 in Colombia. That doesn't matter much, as you just zoom to whatever level shows the area you want.
By contrast if you pick a projection like Equal Earth, it's great for a whole-planet view, but anywhere away from the central meridian is skewed. Your city map of Vancouver will show roads that run due north pointing diagonally up and to the right -- while east-west roads are still horizontal, so you can't just rotate. The fact that your zoom level shows the same magnification as someone in Madagascar viewing the same zoom level is irrelevant.
So noted. The intent was to provide sufficient context (and reference for said context) since enough time has passed that people might not know that the Tivo of today is not the same legal entity as the original Tivo.
We should be glad the original articles haven't bit-rotted into non-existence with how bad the web has gotten...
I don't want to be young again, I just don't want to get any older.
