Unreal by Future Crew

Part of the difficulty is that technical feasibility of the software is no longer as much of a limitation. Half the things in XScreenSaver or Future Crew's Unreal [this video] were things it was really surprising to see on the screen of a computer in 1993, especially one that wasn't a $50000 SGI. But now pretty much anything you can see, you can record an HD video of, and your $100 hand computer is fast enough to play it back in real time. So there's no longer the wonder factor of "how is this even possible? Am I dreaming?". Except sometimes there is. Like with Deep Dream. Or GPT-2. Or the Looking Glass light field display. Or GauGAN. Or a lot of math things. Or topology optimization. Or Wikipedia. But I do think it's a constant danger, forgetting that this stuff is supposed to be fun.

Ha! Or Rule 34a, "every sufficiently observed phenomenon, has just become somebody's new fetish". Although actually, and on a slightly more innocent (but just as edgy!) note, the thing that immediately popped into my head upon reading "4D Gaussian Splatting", was the music from the 1992 Future Crew demo Unreal, and the image of it's inter-scene title screens. ["IYKYK", but basically, that famous old PC demo consists of several short sections, each showcasing a particular coding/graphical technique - each section prefaced by a title screen which named the effect being showcased.] YT of Unreal demo, as citation for this highly-important observation : [this video]