James Answer
ABSTRACT
The performance challenges of real-time rendering for VR are well documented - this poses a particular challenge for rendering realistic human characters, with many of the usual techniques popularised in games not scaling well to high pixel counts and framerates. For Blood & Truth on PlayStation VR, we adapted existing techniques to fit our VR focused forward renderer, and invented novel replacements for expensive screen-space effects.
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Digital Library
- Koki Nagano, Graham Fyffe, Oleg Alexander, Jernej Barbiç, Hao Li, Abhijeet Ghosh, and Paul Debevec. 2015. Skin microstructure deformation with displacement map convolution. ACM Transactions on Graphics 34, 4 (Aug. 2015). https://doi.org/10.1145/2766894Google ScholarDigital Library
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- Character Rendering for VR in ”Blood & Truth”
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