This is surely really cool. Just a bit sad that, as phrased by the authors, the "First Real-Time" virtual world created for the demo is a fat & fast SUV driving on virgin lands.
When you think of "The Matrix" - An infinitely generated and extremely complex world, I don't think most people would picture this, and especially not in a car like that. The car choice makes sense when you consider there aren't any roads at all! Of course, it is a very new technology, but then that does bring into question the paper author's frankly ambitious title choice.
Interestingly, this website does remind me of something I played a while back - check it out! [https://slowroads.io/]. It has roads!
Well, the Matrix movie showed a perfect depiction of the world stuck in 1999, with people given freedom to do as they wish (or what they thought was freedom). So... I guess more than just driving on barren plains haha.
