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Why is HD or 3D so impressive on a flat screen, but we walk around in real life with the highest definition possible and the most realistic 3D and it's completely mundane? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I guess this could have just been a shower thought as well...

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[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago

Because that's comparing oranges to apples.

In terms of pure image quality, real objects would win every time because they only have to be filtered by our eyes - digital images are filtered through the GPU and screen before ever reaching our eyes.

As such, the real contest is the ability of displays to make digital images look comparable to those real objects - because that's harder to do vs. ust looking at the real life object, it's more impressive to us.