Changing Reality with Spacetime Fusion
These days I find that most technology doesn’t impress me that much. Most new technology tends to be an incremental improvement built on ideas that came before. Take the iPhone for example. Ya, it’s a “neat” gadget with a decent interface but guess what? I’ve made phone calls, emailed, clicked on icons and used a touch screen before. *yawn*
About the only thing that is really surprising is just how bad existing cell phone companies are at interface design.
But once in a while something new and truly mind blowing comes along that puts my jaw on the floor. You really have to check out this video:
The original source for this video is here. Using computers to examine video and photographs, they are able to accomplish the seemingly impossible. The computers are able to interpet a series of 2D images and relate them to a 3D geospacial landscape. The origianal video can then be manipultaed in ways that you woudn’t think possible. Wall textures can be changed, people an objects can be removed or added, seemingly anything can be done. This goes way beyond photoshopping an image.
Honestly it’s a bit scary. The oportunity for malicious use of this technology is enough to give anyone pause.
I’ve written about a simliar techonology in the past. See my posting on a “Truly amazing 3D photo demonstration”.
