but there are some things that can’t be done:
1) it will never work with illustrations, art, …nEver
2) it will never work with people, animals, etc.

…the above two will only work if you do it in a studio or something, which already happens (in studios, with a lot of work, nOt computationally)

to do this automatically, you need a staggering number of pictures, of solid, stable things. Otherwise, image processing tools won’t recognize the same thing, from sLiGhtly (…this is important) different angles. iT only works with a lot of useless picture data, not art.

but there are some things that can’t be done:
1) it will never work with illustrations, art, …nEver
2) it will never work with people, animals, etc.

…the above two will only work if you do it in a studio or something, which already happens (in studios, with a lot of work, nOt computationally)

to do this automatically, you need a staggering number of pictures, of solid, stable things. Otherwise, image processing tools won’t recognize the same thing, from sLiGhtly (…this is important) different angles. iT only works with a lot of useless picture data, not art.

Beyond just getting really great 3d reference of just about anything you could want, this technology could eventually allow people to virtually transport themselves into a compellingly real virtual location anywhere in the world. And if you can interpolate architecture from a series of still images (and I’m sure, eventually moving ones) you can interpolate a crowd of people, or damn near anything. Everyone will have their own hollywood studio on their PC, and be able to generate realistic virtual environments that look very much like real environments in practically real time. These images will have more fidelity, in some ways, than what we can see with our eyes.

Anyway, this is completely awesome.

Beyond just getting really great 3d reference of just about anything you could want, this technology could eventually allow people to virtually transport themselves into a compellingly real virtual location anywhere in the world. And if you can interpolate architecture from a series of still images (and I’m sure, eventually moving ones) you can interpolate a crowd of people, or damn near anything. Everyone will have their own hollywood studio on their PC, and be able to generate realistic virtual environments that look very much like real environments in practically real time. These images will have more fidelity, in some ways, than what we can see with our eyes.

Anyway, this is completely awesome.