It was a simpler time back in the late 70s, when I would sit next to my dad on our bright-yellow-corduroy couch and play video games on our state of the art Intellivision game console. We were the envy of the neighborhood. In between fierce dogfights and thrilling touchdowns, he would say to me, “you know, someday video games will look so lifelike that you won’t be able to tell them apart from the real world.” Being that I was only 5 years old and staring at a screen full of rectangles desperately trying to pass themselves off as people, airplanes, monsters… anything but rectangles, I found this concept a little hard to comprehend.

Today, it just got a lot easier.