Reality Check - Is Quantum Computing the Future of Gaming?

My only concern is that if our goal is always to max out the graphical output of a game on the PC then we will forever be increasing the hardware requirements for PC gaming. The price point for building a gaming rig will stay very high and PC gaming will remain somewhat of a niche platform. Currently the cost of entry into PC gaming remains rather high and discourages the average gamer from making the switch.

At some point we have to reach a point were we are getting diminishing returns on trying to invest a a lot in boosting the graphics of a game. This will cause the price point of gaming PCs and plummet and consoles really would be pointless. But that day is still very far off. We got lots of ground to cover in the graphical department especially with 4K gaming around the corner.

I don't think quantum computers have bee shown to be faster at solving most problems as classical computers. But they might be orders of magnitude faster at solving certain kinds of problems.

Seems like something that will be expensive for so little and unreliable. Next-gen consoles in 9 years will be about as powerful as current high end pc's are. if you ever want a peek at gaming in the future just look at what PC has now.

I think what it comes down to is when we make things as small as possible, and are waiting on something new, we will just have bigger hardware to hold all the double+ chips for cpu's and gpu's. If we get to that point I wonder how big consoles will get pushed to, will it be big enough that they might as well just be called pc's?. How far away are we from this?. As a PC gamer I couldn't care, a full tower can hold a lot as is; the future isn't scary for us even when looking into 30 years.

Lol, imagine putting in a video card that takes up 4-5 slots and 20 inches long. Motherboards with 6-10 cpu slots. With how slow gaming really seems to be going i don't think we will need to worry about that for a 100 years.

You talked aobut Quantum Computing, check this video about a new type of computer call "Optical Computing" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2yQ9xFshuc#t=13]. The future of computing may not be Black or White.

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Reminds me of a video by VSAUCE called What is random, you guys should check it out

Ok, that Super Position example with the colours made absolutely no sense to me...

This reminds me of a video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rIy0xY99a0

Quantum mechanics is only weird because it is almost entirely mathematically based. Some physicists literally sit down and scribble maths down on a piece of paper or in a computer until the numbers work and then call it finished. Maths doesn't give understanding it is merely a way we quantify.

You can quantify simple quantum mechanical systems using a moderate amount of calculus but what no one has been able to do is properly understand it for this reason.

Something can be made easily if it is understood, when we understand quantum mechanics not just bashing away at the maths associated with it, we will have our quantum computers.

Perhaps the on / off associated with transistors and quantum bits is the problem. Right now it seems sooner or later the limit will be reached at which point computers will start getting bigger again. Larger system, more transistors (qbits), more switches. Seems to me an alternative that doesn't use switches at all is when computing will leap again. Otherwise we will be using computers the size of a king size bed to play the newest games.

I know hardware gets more powerful every year.. but itts still not good enough. Tired of all games being limited by one thing or another

I want to be able to build an entire house literally board by board, nail by nail. And dig a 1000ft hole in terrain.. No game engines can handle that very well

Great episode, as always.

haha to think 20 years ago if you said touch screen phone u would be laughed out into therapy : /

What's an atom made from?

What are the things that make an atom made from?

What are the things that make the things that make an atom made from?

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Quantum Computing is fascinating but discussing its effect on gaming is mental masturbation at best.

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I would love to say nice show :D and Cam ur muscles look nice (not as big as mine)

what I would love to see with this tech

1-AI's.... imagine skyrim ...only with real people and life size world ....

2-no more graphic/sound/speed limits

3-unlimited storage space

4-Transporters

5-Replicators

6-0 lag/ping communications even if im here and the other person is in another universe

soon quantum tech will make the best PC money can buy a calculator

people have no idea how much "power" atoms actually have every atom every particle is a mini universe on its own... not to mention on the quantum level time and space don't exist

we cant understand this cause we think time is a river and space has "volume" ... well sorry to make everyone sad pandas but time is an illusion and space is not as big as we think

This was hands down the best episode:). Good job.

switches are not gonna take us to the stars or gives us AIs WEIRDNESS will

soon the laws of relativity will become "part" of science and not THE science