We wouldn't have VR/AR today unless we pushed our GPUs till they cried. We wouldn't even have deep neural networks today if we didn't push hyper-realism because

We wouldn't have VR/AR today unless we pushed our GPUs till they cried. We wouldn't even have deep neural networks today if we didn't push hyper-realism because most deep neural network training without today's GPUs would be too slow to be useful. The truth of the matter is that just because it seems trivial in one domain doesn't mean it won't benefit other domains, the problem is that we can't see the future so who knows what is going to pay dividends.