Insane Grand Theft Auto V graphics mod data hits GitHub

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Grand Theft Auto V was released way back in 2013.
It's recently been enhanced via machine learning to be nearly photorealistic.
These enhancements are thanks to Intel Labs.


You would think that a game released on the Xbox 360 back in 2013 would be starting to show its age by now — and if you're only looking at the vanilla versions Rockstar has released, you'd be right and see that age in an instant. However, technological masterminds have used the game as a testing ground for all sorts of groundbreaking visual mods and graphics experiments over the years, with the latest bringing GTA V arguably as close to photorealism as any game's ever come.

Three members of Intel Labs have come up with "an approach to enhancing the realism of synthetic images." This trio consists of Stephan R. Richter, Vladlen Koltun, and Hassan Abu AlHaija (who worked on the project as an intern at Intel Labs).

Their work has been publish...