https://wccftech.com/nvidia-gpus-ai-rendering-power-hairworks-aaa-games/

One thing that pushes gamers to buy new graphics cards is that they enable a new generation of graphical feature support in the latest AAA titles. Both NVIDIA and AMD have been working with several game developers to incorporate their latest graphics features in AAA titles and both do a pretty good job to keep PC gaming visually distinct and better than the console counterparts. It’s always a race of who got the best features in a major shipping AAA title and who runs it well and looks like researches are already working on the next big thing.

The latest report comes from PCGamesN who have found out that researchers at the University of South California, Pinscreen, and Microsoft are currently developing a new hair rendering method which is powered by AI (Deep Neural Networking). The 3D models are referenced from a 2D image and are said to work in real-time which is a feat in itself.