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It will be very interesting to watch how tech like this affects mainstream society.

I imagine pornography will use it at some point soon. Maybe something like chaturbate where your interactions with the cam performer are more customized?

Could it be used with CCTV to reconstruct crime scenes or accidents?

Wedding videos might be a popular use, being able to watch from new angles could be a killer app.

Or a reworking of the first Avengers movie, view all the action from multiple viewpoints.

And all this will probably be built in to the pixel 18 pro or something.




>CCTV to reconstruct crime scenes

Here is Jack Black demoing similar NSA technology in 1998 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EwZQddc3kY


I went to high school with the girl who plays the sales clerk standing next to Will Smith, Ivana Miličević.


Good catch! “It can hypothetise”

Also the Star Trek Next Generation forensics episode with the holodeck…


There's an ST:TNG episode I remember too where they have an image and they get the computer to back-trace all the reflections in the image to produce what isn't easily seen.


It turns out this was actually a documentary.


"Light Field" photography has existed for a few years now, yet there is still no porn using it that I am aware of.

I tried a demo a while back that was very impressive, despite being relatively low-res stock footage. Simply being able to move your head a few inches in any direction without taking the world with you is a much better experience than contemporary VR video.




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