Wow a computer character controlled with a joypad, why didn't nintendo think of th.. oh wait.. But wait it's blended in with a real person, why didn't the movie industry think of th.. oh wait..
You're correct. The significance is that they've achieved mixing reality and animation (like movies) AND doing so with live animation (like video games) AND live reality (like.... well, reality).
The fact that this isn't pre-recorded cinematics is what's amazing. It's live fake reality. Next up: stereoscopic contact lenses that allow this live fake reality to be constant, like actually being in the same room (or appearing so) as your friend in Europe. I'm sure this and the upcoming fiber optic "The Grid" internet will make this all too creepily possible soon.
Well sorry but they've achieved such 'live animation" for years (maybe a decade) already, many science museum displays for kids already have that running for years too. I just don't see anything new apart from perhaps the shadows on real 3D objects, but as I previously stated I'm not sure they aren't cheating a bit with that and pre-calculated the legs 'objects'.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Wow a computer character controlled with a joypad, why didn't nintendo think of th.. oh wait..
But wait it's blended in with a real person, why didn't the movie industry think of th.. oh wait..
You're correct. The significance is that they've achieved mixing reality and animation (like movies) AND doing so with live animation (like video games) AND live reality (like.... well, reality).
The fact that this isn't pre-recorded cinematics is what's amazing. It's live fake reality. Next up: stereoscopic contact lenses that allow this live fake reality to be constant, like actually being in the same room (or appearing so) as your friend in Europe. I'm sure this and the upcoming fiber optic "The Grid" internet will make this all too creepily possible soon.
Well sorry but they've achieved such 'live animation" for years (maybe a decade) already, many science museum displays for kids already have that running for years too.
I just don't see anything new apart from perhaps the shadows on real 3D objects, but as I previously stated I'm not sure they aren't cheating a bit with that and pre-calculated the legs 'objects'.