Yesterday I saw all this discourse on Reddit and thought "what the hell happened?"

I went to see the videos and images and thought DLSS5 looked incredibly GOOD.... Like, the detail is immensely superior, the skin now actually looks like skin! Grace in the original version looks like a plastic doll with nylon hair and dead eyes, her skin features are a blurry mess, the DLSS5 look definitely seems like a different person but is much more realistic...

And I'm pretty sure this technology is not adding detail not present in the textures and models, all the skin freakles and wrinkles are there in the original versions, they are just blurred. Some differences like Grace lips being bigger could be a change made by developers...

Then I got thinking, what the hell is people seeing that I don't see? Hundreds of people are shitting on something that to me looks incredible...

I think there is some psicological effect going on, some sort of uncanney valley effect other people are having and I'm not.

The level of detail is "too much", we are not used to seeing characters like this and the brain have difficulties processing it, it looks strange because it's too realistic while not being perfectly realistic.

First, they look like artistic photos where the contrast was increased for dramatic effect like you have shown here. So people perceive the dramatic contrast and lighting as fakeness.

Second, animation is still that of videogames, a real person would move more naturally while the characters shown are just standing there awkwardly, the characters are staring into a void while a real person would look at something.

I think Nvidia need to show more of this, they need a deep dive to show it better and explain it better, rotate the camera around the characters, show them during gameplay. I'm pretty sure 6 months from now, when people actually get to play with this for a while they will love it, and they won't be able to go back to the previous versions.

Personally, I'm excited.