NVIDIA announces Photo Mode-style capture tool Ansel

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Coming soon to certain Geforce cards, and games including The Witcher 3.

NVIDIA has announced a new game photography tool named Ansel, coming soon to certain Geforce GPUs, and to games including The Witcher 3, No Man's Sky, and The Witness. It sounds a bit like the PS4's Photo Mode, if you're aware of that, meaning Ansel will feature a free camera, the ability to pause time, and a load of post-process filters for you to Instagram up your game photos. However, it will go beyond that with support for "super resolutions", and even 360-degree photo captures, producing images you can then view in virtual reality. It sounds a bit amazing, in other words.

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Tom Sykes
Tom Sykes

Tom loves exploring in games, whether it’s going the wrong way in a platformer or burgling an apartment in Deus Ex. His favourite game worlds—Stalker, Dark Souls, Thief—have an atmosphere you could wallop with a blackjack. He enjoys horror, adventure, puzzle games and RPGs, and played the Japanese version of Final Fantasy VIII with a translated script he printed off from the internet. Tom has been writing about free games for PC Gamer since 2012. If he were packing for a desert island, he’d take his giant Columbo boxset and a laptop stuffed with PuzzleScript games.