I don't think it is hype. Everybody's considers CryEngine 2 spectacular. B.T.W., there is a comment at the youtube url which says that you have to shell out 10,000$ to get it and 2,000$ per year license. Being one order of magnitude more expensive than Vue infinite it HAS to be great.

Just as another example, have a look at CityEngine (http://www.procedural.com/) and compare it to what you can do with Vue ecosystems. I read that the the price tag should be about 7,000$ range.

As a last comment, Intel demoed real time raytracing on their high end chips so I think it is not incredible that in 5/10 years time we will not be rendering images, but creating and exploring virtual worlds.

Bye!!!

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