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I wonder if one day there will be companies that will just sell iper realistic models of complete cities or popular zone to be used in games or other kind of applications.

Like companies such as Tele Atlas did back in the days for map data (when they didn't have much more than that I guess).




There are already, and Epic has acquired multiple companies in that segment.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-11-12-epic-acqui...

Edit: well not of entire cities, more about 3D assets. The city itself was built procedurally using Houdini.




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