That’s interesting. Even if I look at current state of the art graphics today I don’t think for a second that it’s anything close to indistinguishable from reality (not to say it’s not good or impressive).
I guess he means how reality looked displayed on the TV screen. I think we did go backwards in that regard, at least for a while because resolution went up in some sudden jumps leaving the level of detail in the scenes lagging behind. But we're almost there now. I recently saw a dashcam video of a racecar on the news and wondered why they were showing a video game. It took ages for me to realize it was actually real but with some HUD overlays.
