How do video games create the illusion of distance.

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In games such as Horizon Zero Dawn and RDR2 that have large maps you are able to see objects in the distance that would appear to be many many miles away. You’d expect that it’d take hours to get there but it only takes minutes. How is this illusion possible?

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Part of it has to do with the fact that they, as experts might put it… really fucking small.

Mountains and stuff are maybe only a couple hundred feet tall, where a real version of that mountain would be kilometer/miles high. It makes it look tall and imposing from a distance, despite being a relatively short distance away.

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