July 25, 2021 11:53 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/25/22593438/upscale-enhance-hd-4k-8k-final-fantasy-kingdom-hearts-wow-onimusha
This YouTube channel is using AI to gloriously remaster classic game cutscenes
Twenty years ago, when photorealistic games were still just a faraway dream, companies like Square sent our imaginations soaring before we played, with big-budget intros and cutscenes. Long before Overwatch normalized the practice of releasing Pixar-quality animated shorts for each new character, Blizzard’s Diablo II and Capcom’s Onimusha 3 put us in the demon slaying mood with incredible mini-movies stretching to six minutes each.
But if you dare try watching these classics on a modern 4K TV or even a 1080p monitor, they’ll look like a pixelated mess. That’s where a YouTube channel named Upscale and machine learning comes in — making them look nearly as good as they did on your old CRT. Or perhaps even better. It just depends how well...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/25/22593438/upscale-enhance-hd-4k-8k-final-fantasy-kingdom-hearts-wow-onimusha
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