New Interactive Dynamic Video Turns Real Objects Into Virtually Manipulable Ones

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With a few mouse-clicks, he showed that he can push and pull the image, bending and moving it in different directions. He even demonstrated how he can make his own hand appear to telekinetically control the leaves of a bush. “If you want to model how an object behaves and responds to different forces, we show that you can observe the object respond to existing forces and assume that it will respond in a consistent way to new ones,” says Davis, who also found that the technique even works on some existing videos on YouTube.

The applications for 3D objects taken from real video are obvious and widespread, but I can also see this working as a way to place real objects into virtual worlds, where they become fully dynamic.

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and David Pogue.

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Thanks for the share. Very interesting. :Study: