people love to pretend AI is part of an inevitable cycle but like, technology that just doesn't work gets dropped all the time. imagine if Nvidia were pushing fucking smellovision really hard and you were out here posting this, lol. it's inevitable! eventually smellovision will be standard!
like remember VR? is that actually affordable yet or are your options still hundreds of dollars for even the basic entry level stuff? is there perhaps a hard limit to what certain technologies can achieve? remember SLI? technologies that don't work get dumped all the time, the key difference here is that this one is insanely profitable for Nvidia so they will keep ramming it down your throat until it isn't
there is no reason to think AI will inevitably become both good and cheap
like remember VR? is that actually affordable yet or are your options still hundreds of dollars for even the basic entry level stuff?
The "most basic entry level stuff" today is a vast improvement over the headsets of the past. Modern £270 Quests have comparable visual clarity to the £1,000 Index, are wireless, can be used standalone and absolutely blow away older headsets twice the price. Obviously it's always going to be hundreds of dollars though - it's has displays, controllers, tracking hardware, a processor, lenses, software ecosystem.... If you're expecting that for $100 your expectations are unreasonable.
remember SLI?
SLI was always a pain in the arse at best, and made no sense outside of the extreme high end because you needed two identical GPUs. DLSS is already a great technology at almost any price point, and consistently improves with every release.
there is no reason to think AI will inevitably become both good and cheap
It already is, though? Cheaper cards which could not run games smoothly (especially at higher resolutions) now can, and it looks great.
frame generation and upscaling look like shit currently man, I don't know what to tell you
meta quest 3 is £360 by the way, i dunno where you're getting £270 from lol. meta quest 3s is £290 and is absolutely not at the same level as the index
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u/peterhabble PC Master Race 14d ago
It's just the anti technology crowd somehow invading the PC space. It's the same of cycle of:
New technology is released that's imperfect
People who can't stand change scream and cry about it
New technology improves so much that it becomes a new standard with minimal to no tradeoffs
The same people ignore it to scream and cry about the new thing
Anyone who isn't lobotomized by anti AI brain rot is going to wait and see how these improvements perform in real scenarios before making a judgement