Maybe not but for sure they're spine chilling close. Look at this one:
Yes, you can tell that the human figures are great but still look artificial. However, the environment could be easily coming out of a Ukrainian soldier's cam in the front line. The hardest part is to recreate as convincing humans but looks like we're not that far from that point anymore.
I mentioned "spine chilling" before not just because that's how it feels to me but I am also afraid that there's more and more people who have become numb after so much exposure to realistic virtual violence.
The moon is closer to the sun than I am to a gamer but at the view of this video I recalled the time a friend of mine gave me GTA. This wan an age ago (or maybe two for PC game standards) but still this thing had a huge impact to me for the short time I tried it. I remember one evening after playing it for a while I go out to meet my friends and as soon as I jump on my bike I am driving like crazy as if the game was still on. It felt so natural to drive like a hooligan that I barely noticed the difference till at some point while filtering the traffic like a maniac I ask myself "why the F are you flying since you're in no hurry?".
If a thing like that had an impact on me that would embarrass substances then I don't want to know what happens to people playing stuff like the one in the video on a daily basis. Needless to mention all day long use side effects. Right now I'm in Serbia as part of my super long trip around Europe (you can follow the episodes on my blog) and only a couple of days before I arrived they had tens of gun shooting incidents mostly in schools with tens of casualties. In less than a week's time.
I'm not here to say ban this or ban that, I wish it would be as simple as that but I am afraid it's not. We have to do the almost humanely impossible, to zoom out of our lives and observe things from a wider viewing angle than our tiny comfort zone:
Where are we heading to if what keeps people together is mainly the excess of hormones or the lack of money?
The above might be anything new for mankind but if we want to consider ourselves evolved beings I think we should take things a notch further. There's not much life left when your little baby soul is dead and gone, regardless what you had sacrificed it for.
Have a good life everyone.