Technology Magazine October 2020 | Page 69

69 including 2 trillion trees , 1.5 billion buildings and 117 million lakes . With no chance of such a vast volume of data being stored locally , the game instead relies on streaming it in to players on the fly . Competitors such as Google have also levied their cloud computing power , albeit in Google ’ s case it was for the streaming of games entirely via its Stadia platform .
As the ambition of those in the video game industry continually extends , from console manufacturers to video game developers , emerging technologies are filling in the gaps . From cloud systems processing volumes of data infeasible in a home setting , to AI generating ever more impressive facsimiles of reality , the future is automated .
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