Presenter Michio Kaku demonstrates “tele-immersion” technology by dancing in a virtual world with people who are hundreds of miles away. They are dancing with each other’s virtual 3-dimensional images, transmitted to them in real time. Kaku suggests that 3-dimensional technologies like tele-immersion could be “the evolutionary successor of the telephone, and might even reduce air travel” (and real human contact). Kaku envisages business conferences, Christmas parties, TV programmes and …

Full Immersion Virtual Reality

Leah D’Emilio learns about a whole new approach to visual effects in film. Dr. Paul Debevec, innovator of HDR photography and creator of Photogrammetry used in “The Matrix,” takes us through USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies

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