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The people have spoken: Motion blur is the worst (www.pcgamer.com)
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Just a little amusing and not that surprising.

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[–] 205 points 2 days ago (51 children)

Lenses flare and motion blur are some of the first setting I turn off in any game.

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  • [–] 141 points 2 days ago (23 children)

    I hate DOF, too. Your eyes aren't a camera, any place you look should be in focus!

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  • [–] 0 points 9 hours ago
    1. However, your eyes have depth of field view too. Your eyes are actually cameras in that point regard. Look at the monitor, your hand or any object close to you. Focus on it. Notice how the background gets blurry? That's a feature from your eyes and brain to bring stuff into focus.
    2. But besides this fact, even if you would see everything in focus, its does not mean the developers of film scenes (movies or games) shouldn't use DOF as a tool for an artistic expression. It can help bring things in focus in a busy background.
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  • [–] 84 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    My eyes will do the blurring on their own, thank you very much. Same goes for motion blur.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Yeah we see non blurred only in a ridiculously small portion we look at anyways, IIRC it's in a 3° split angle from the centre (yes you read that correctly, a cone at 3 degrees...).

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  • [–] 21 points 2 days ago (11 children)

    huh? Your eyes absolutely do have limited depth of field just like any camera, and need to focus at a particular distance. Anything as close as your nose will be out of focus, and if you're reading something close, your distant vision will be blurry.

    You usually don't notice it because the focus immediately follows your active attention.

    It looks wrong in games when the game wrongly assumes which item on screen you actually want to be looking at.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 days ago (8 children)

    I think you misunderstood what they meant. Like you said, your eyes adjust to have anything you're looking at in focus. This means games shouldn't use DoF because it makes everything not in the center of the screen out of focus. Our eyes can look at anything on the screen, not just the center. Until the game can track our eyes, not the center point, DoF is doing the opposite of what our eyes do. We can only look at one point clearly, instead of seeing anything we look at clearly.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago (1 child)

    If the camera is meant to simulate vision then I'm just not seeing the issue. It would make sense that the center of the character's vision is in focus.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago

    Your eyes wander. They don't just look directly ahead. Directly ahead is not the only thing you're looking at. That's just not how we work. We're constantly scanning around looking at different objects. Sure, DoF accurately simulates looking at exactly where you're facing, but that doesn't accurately simulate the way we look at our environment.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

    I wonder if there's a tech demo somewhere on the Internet of DoF using eye tracking

    edit: huh yeah, here's a video 18 years old. kinda neat https://youtu.be/HdW1v9TPNYw

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Just to back up your edit, the tech has been around for decades. Only really reached consumers properly a couple decades ago, and has had no real adoption beyond the novelty. VR has brought it further into adoption, since you can render things at lower quality where the user isn’t looking. Further development of course depends on the adoption of VR which is slow at best and stagnant at worst.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    I feel like this is sort of how foveated rendering works now in VR with eye tracking. Rendering only what's directly in the center of your view at full resolution to reduce the rendering workload and boost performance. Since you're not going to actually view all that a full resolution anyway in your peripheral vision.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveated_rendering

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

    It should be a lot harder than foveated rendering. For foveation you need to know the position of the eye, but for dof you need the shape of the lense inside the eye.
    You could try estimating the focus based on what the eyes together point at, but the eyes don't actually focus in perfect match with their stereo vision.

    And then if you do manage to track it, you need to undo the eyes lense too, since it's naturally trying to blur the screen away from being in focus.
    Currently vr just ignores it and the eye just doesn't focus like it naturally would, but if you wanna have say the ability to focus between two overlapping things with the other blurring out of the way, you need that lense input, so you need the eye to focus, so you need to let the lense squeeze while the screen stays in focus.

    Tracking lenses seems so hard I wouldn't be surprised if we get light field displays first. Which sidestep the whole problem and are really the right way to do it. Proper sharpness and blur on a passive screen even without tracking. For a good looking blur you probably only need a handful angular pixels, since you know the exact location the eye is at.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago

    Would need (flat surface) holography style screens to really trick the eyes and fully simulate long range depth rather than simulating it. A proper dynamic holographic screen wouldn't even need fancy lenses (unless you need to resize perhaps). Most current light field-ish displays are just doing mirror/prism arrays over pixels, which looks neat at a distance, but don't have the resolution to trick the eye (see: the external eye screen on the Vision Pro).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Yeah, VR doesn't need to fake it. Foveated rendering does fake it to an extent, but it's purely at a detriment to image quality, but it's out-of-focus anyway, so that doesn't really matter, but the performance increase does.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Their point was wherever we look it is in focus, because our eyes adjust, so the game should not blur anything, because if I want to look at trees down the road they shouldn't default to blurry because I'm not at the trees.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    This is part of art direction and the director is trying to focus the viewer's attention on a particular area by utilizing it.

    I understand where you're coming from but utilized well, it is a powerful tool.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    It's a movie technique. Makes sense for cutscenes, not for gameplay.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Look, I do hear you, but when there is a director involved and they want to shape the narrative in a particular direction, then that's one of the tools they have available. It's just what it is.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    > Player Character walks into a room
    > Control immediately taken away from player
    > Camera slowly pans and zooms to the next door in the room, completely covered in padlocks and chains
    > Pauses for an annoyingly long duration
    > Camera slowly pans left to a climbable wall marked with yellow paint
    > Pause again
    > Camera pans back to POV
    > Character says to sidekick "Hmmmm, that'll be tough to get through. We should look for another way around"

    Modern gaming narrative direction 👌

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  • [–] 33 points 2 days ago (19 children)

    What about bloom? That's another instant "turn off" for me.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 days ago (15 children)

    Motion blur, Depth of Field, Bloom, Chromatic aberration.

    Off, Off, Off and Off.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    Vignette, Film grain.

    Off, Off.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Film grain and bloom can look nice when used well imo, otherwise absolutely agree.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    There are exceptions to the rules

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I don't know what game this is, but that looks atmospheric af. Very nice.

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  • [–] 3 points 17 hours ago

    Ghost of Tsushima has an optional samurai movie mode you can turn on in settings.

    They apply deliberate filters to feel like an old style noir samurai movie and set the dialogue to Japanese. It’s pretty cool, and a fun celebration of that film genre.

    The whole game has an incredible art direction, you can feel the soul and passion that went into it.

    I would recommend Ghost of Tsushima, it’s a top 10 video game experience in my life.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    It's mind-blowing that most games still default to motion blur on. Makes me think they're trying to cover up for something.

    Every now and then a game will have it off by default and I'll be like aw yeah. Seems to be happening more often.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Yeah, in quite a few cases (especially a particular generation of console games in which motion blur can't be disabled) it is covering for something. Some effects like TAA work great if the camera doesn't whip around quickly, but can leave some "ghosting" if the camera moves too fast. So motion blur makes the ghosting less visible. Film grain is another one that is sometimes used to hide noise in dynamic light reflections and the like. I'm of the opinion that they look like ass but in some games they do look better than what they're covering up.

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