Which is a real photo and which is a real time render?
I say the first one is real.
They’re both rendered.
The important question is… was it rendered with Unity… if not… /lockthread
First one has the biggest chance of being real, but the second one is definitely a render. Source for the images, courtesy of Google Image search, is in the spoiler.
First one is the Hotel Metropole and the second is from the Unreal forums.
I would say neither one is real. I could understand if the first is the byproduct of photography, but it’s nowhere close to what an eye sees either way.
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Exactly what I was thinking. I specifically keyed in on lighting… in picture 1, the edge of the light from the lamp where it casts over the bed is too sharp… too perfect. In the second picture the lighting on the chair especially looks unnatural.
The “Any thoughts on the recent Phil Fish Zoe Quinn debacle?” thread is still open but photo vs realtime render is not OK? Really?
I cannot say anything about engine(s) if any, since it could maybe make one or many answer options obsolete. So maybe /lockthread in 3 days?
At the moment of the spoiler 2 votes for “first for sure”, and 1 vote each for “second, maybe” and “you just try to trick us”
Ah a smart one. Congrats sir. You have won a night in the room of the second image or the privilege to provide 2 new images. You choose 
lol the flower on the left in 2nd photo is dead giveaway, it looks like crap ( i mean compared to reality, its pretty good, better than i could do maybe, but i dont care for photorealism, i think its stupid for a game, but i guess depends on type of game)
Yes, but could be artificial flowers. Didn’t want to make it too hard. Hard would be cropping away the crappy parts of some of the images from the same guy this comes from and only keep the perfect part.
It doesn’t matter, most people don’t take photos to make them look like renders. A movie vs real time animation would be far more beneficial.
You could argue they both have massively tweaked HDR processing (photography-wise). The first is overblown to the point where everything is probably much darker than they look. The second looks like it’s the opposite and kind of forced me to question how the window is so bright there isn’t anything outside, yet I can’t distinguish anything on the near side of the chairs in their shadow.