Comments on: Augmenting video with photographs http://centripetalnotion.com/2008/08/18/18:03:31/ miscellaneous badassery Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:38:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Greg K Nicholson http://centripetalnotion.com/2008/08/18/18:03:31/comment-page-1/#comment-1905 Greg K Nicholson Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:06:53 +0000 http://centripetalnotion.com/2008/08/18/18:03:31/#comment-1905 Wow. Remember that 3-D projection effect all the home videos in Minority Report had, where foreground objects jump out of the picture and leave a gap behind? Well, this system can calculate objects' positions in 3D, and completely replace obscuring foreground objects with what's behind them. So, given a suitable 3-D projector, it looks like this would be able to match Minority Report, and even go one better by filling in the gaps. CrunchGear estimates five years before this is commercially available. I say it'll hit the Gimp in *two*, if <a href="http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/" rel="nofollow">liquid rescaling</a> is anything to judge by. Wow. Remember that 3-D projection effect all the home videos in Minority Report had, where foreground objects jump out of the picture and leave a gap behind?

Well, this system can calculate objects’ positions in 3D, and completely replace obscuring foreground objects with what’s behind them.

So, given a suitable 3-D projector, it looks like this would be able to match Minority Report, and even go one better by filling in the gaps.

CrunchGear estimates five years before this is commercially available. I say it’ll hit the Gimp in *two*, if liquid rescaling is anything to judge by.

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