Mike Leigh is known to use unusual methods to achieve realism in his films.
Goya achieves realism and deepness without adding secondary objects to the composition.
In addition to spatial realism, the playback of music must be subjectively free from noise to achieve realism.
The portrait took on color, depth, achieved photographic realism.
To achieve greater realism, Im opted to use non-actors.
"Unbiased" loosely means that it does all things required to achieve realism, with no fakes or limits to sampling.
The movie will be preceded by a disclaimer that says this technique was used "to achieve realism."
To achieve realism, no distinction is made among the elements.
I think you put it better by saying 'technology', but I would argue that is perhaps the means by which developers are trying to achieve realism.
They used monochrome posed photographs of their muses/models to achieve realism.