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00:00:00 Introductions
00:00:55 Initial impressions
00:04:30 Hardware-accelerated Lumen GI
00:07:35 How Nanite works in The Matrix Awakens
00:12:55 Open world construction and streaming
00:17:52 Character rendering and MetaHumans
00:20:54 What is real and what is not?
00:23:15 Open world AI (MassAI)
00:25:44 Chaos Physics and how it is used
00:28:42 Temporal Super Resolution + post-processing
00:33:07 Console comparisons and performance
00:41:52 What are the advantages of hardware lumen more specifically?
00:44:56 Final impressions