Nvidia and DLSS5: Or, We Used to Make Things

A week ago at time of writing, NVIDIA released the following demo. If you haven’t seen it, it’s like a minute long and it broke the internet for a few days. Watch it. For the uninitiated, I will wildly oversimplify where we’ve come from and what we’re seeing. DLSS, or Deep Learning Super Sampling, is a feature of some of NVIDIA’s gaming graphics hardware. It uses machine learning to improve a game’s resolution, frame rate, and latency, per NVIDIA. Other vendors offer similar technologies, but with NVIDIA recently hitting 95%…