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In the not so distant future, visualizing and "walking through" the past -- ala the movie Deja Vu (but minus the wormholes) -- will become a reality. It was the
by corresation 14y ago
In the not so distant future, visualizing and "walking through" the past -- ala the movie Deja Vu (but minus the wormholes) -- will become a reality. It was the lack of even a rudimentary version of this that made the Reddit sleuthing so hopeless, with most media having zero context, location, or even time taken, that metadata not available.
But imagine photo synth/streetview with a time slider: Thousands of pictures and overlaid videos time synchronized and placed into a scene. Such a tool could be incredible for such investigations.
- hornbaker 14y agoGoogle will almost certainly add that functionality to Street View in the future. The coming ubiquity of always-on Glass-type cameras will turn a significant fraction of the public into walking surveillance cameras.