Hard News: Did Holopac change everything?
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Tupacrophilia
Precisely. Dug up & dry-humped.
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Amazing, but unsettling: the uncanny valley of a real person not being there, in so many ways. That said, the spectacle, the technology and the performance came together to make a pretty impressive experience, hence the outpouring.
William Gibson's prescience (pre-science, yep) in his early work is similarly spectacular and eerie, but for my money it's not so much Idoru you should bone up on (although it is astounding for its accuracy in portrayal of the social interface between virtual and real worlds and as Jolisa noted, the freak-out of the sheer volume of information contained in a virtual being is well grokked; as is the blind character's visual-aid-interpreted view of the Idoru as "a grey box on the floor"). Where was I? oh yeah: read Idoru, but try Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age for the nuance and politics of a live performance captured and transmitted between consenting adults...
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Tupac Hurly Burly – much rather see this take place:
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DexterX, in reply to
I see you got to it first - but I can go one step weirder,
At 3.18 John Key makes an appearance – dig the hipster in the tie with the swinging moves man, the questions I pose are, “Is that a wig, does he have a time machine and is that virtual moon”.
I understand John Bonham is really pissed about it.
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Sacha, in reply to
allegedly used to create those phone calls from passengers on the 9/11 jets
pray, continue (or Mr Dentith)
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Sacha, in reply to
spectacular
verily
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JackElder, in reply to
It seems to me that we aren't far off photo-realistic CGI (I'd suggest something like a Turing Test - can watchers differentiate between a filmed scene with actors and the same scene created with CGI)
I'm just surprised that you don't think that this form of Turing test is already happening. There's a lot of CG in current films and TV; you spot the bad stuff, sure, but I guarantee you that there's a lot that goes unnoticed.
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3410,
this form of Turing test is already happening.
Absolutely. An interesting example on the 6 o'clock news the other night: A reporter was addressing the camera. In the background, a large ship was steaming into port. I suddenly thought "Holy shit! That ship is going too fast; it's going to crash into that other ship!", before quickly realising that it was merely a CGI Titanic, sidling up to a modern liner in order to illustrate relative size. :)
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
There's a lot of CG in current films and TV; you spot the bad stuff, sure, but I guarantee you that there's a lot that goes unnoticed.
Quite - but that's often things that aren't really foregrounded. A surprisingly large amount of CGI work on The Hunger Games involved digitally cleaning up blood splatter and dripping blades in post that were making censors nervous. Boardwalk Empire's lushly detailed exterior sets are "enhanced" and "extended" with CGI. Even in action flicks you'll now see wire work being digitally scrubbed when once upon a time you'd just have to frame and light it all very carefully and pray nobody noticed.
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It seems holo-worlders are taking things into their own hands ... http://i.imgur.com/rZhSV.png
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