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Video games have been getting perspective wrong, but now there's a fix

A digital perspective tweak improves how people judge distance in images and doing this in video games and CGI movies could make them feel more immersive

By Edd Gent

24 February 2023

Video still showing the size of a ball in natural and linear perspective

In natural perspective (left), the ball appears slightly larger at the same distance than it does in linear perspective (right)

Robert Pepperell

A way of transforming digital images so they better reflect how our eyes actually see things could make video games seem more realistic.

When you look up at a gigantic moon and try to snap a picture of it, it tends to look far smaller in the photo than you might expect. This is because eyes and brains process images in a different way to cameras and computers.

When representing three-dimensional …

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