The first video game to use ambient occlusion was Crysis in 2007. Here's a cool video of gameplay with adjusted variables in order to visualize the effect of ambient occlusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifdAILHTcZk. And here is just regular gameplay to compare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuYDuaKkjYw.
The first video game to use ambient occlusion was Crysis in 2007. Here's a cool video of gameplay with adjusted variables in order to visualize the effect of ambient occlusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifdAILHTcZk. And here is just regular gameplay to compare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuYDuaKkjYw.