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In this talk and tech demo, filmmaker Diego Prilusky introduces the next chapter in moviemaking: volumetric video, a 360-degree experience powered by hundreds of cameras that capture light and motion from every angle. Check out how this technology creates a new type of immersive storytelling — and catch Prilusky's reshoot of an iconic dance number from "Grease" captured with volumetric video.
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I love watching movies. And he loves making movies.
Great guy love his talks. This one is especially cool!
I’m glad i am young and I’ll be able to see how this evolves in the far future. Fascinating.
I old are you?
@INS Whisky i just turned 18
Apple’s next acquisition
For sure it will change how motion capture is… well.. captured!
This is amazing.
Of course it still has some lags, but it will get much better quickly. This is the future of cinema.
That’s incredible!
How does it perform with interiors? Do you just add more sensors to cover blind spots?
eh. I know it’s early but it looks bad. Could be used for some stylized scenes maybe. What I love about cinema is how it guides us to new information, frame by frame.
Live action movies turned in to viewer controllable camera view just like video games (example Strategy Games camera).
I imagine this technology could be used together with ‘holograms’ or agumented reality to create movies where you can see the action as If you we’re there. You could perhaps move through a scene and watch it from different angles. I can’t wait to see this develop!!!
Have you watched all of the video?
@wuda lmao, you got me! I literally commented right before he said the exact same thing.
I had another idea that I wish caught on by now. This talks about a multiple different angles of the same scene, but what about the same scene acted multiple different ways? We are in the digital age, no more VHS tapes, so why not have a movie use this and be slightly different every time you watch it? It would give the actors a lot of creativity in doing the same action multiple different ways.
At the bare minimum all the important story points would have 4 or 5 versions, but a director could go crazy and shoot _every_ scene 2 or 3 ways to make the entire movie different. Make it pick the next scene at random so it’s never the same movie twice. Perhaps there’s more than one satisfying ending to the story too, so your friend sees a different ending than you did. I just thought that would be really cool and make everything very rewatchable, even more so than volumetric video.
I’m not sure how volumetric could be utilized. People aren’t going to get up and walk in circles just to watch the movie. I guess you could make some rotary park ride out of it that moves for you. If the target is people who want to sit down and watch something, it’s cheaper and easier just to make a 3D story driven video game. This is a huge challenge trying to practically implement this
The idea of a movie with multiple pathways. That’s similar to a choose your own adventure game, but where you let the movie surprise you with its own choices. I like it
This was really cool. Heck you could still do “2D” movies with this tech but give the director the possibility filming the scene any way he/she wants in post.
Watching movies with VR and running around sucks.
You shouldn’t have partnered with Paramount, but with PornHub.
someone has to get zack snyder on this right now!