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PetitPrincetoday at 8:18 AM3 repliesview on HN

To add to the other comments if you have the idea to use multiple camera to make the same effect but at a higher quality (and if you somehow sort how the synchronisation problem), then congrats ! You have invented bullet time, as demonstrated 27 years ago* in the Matrix.

*ouch, I feel old


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zimpenfishtoday at 10:19 AM

Well, pedantically, demonstrated 148 years ago by Muybridge[0]

[0] "In 1878–1879, Muybridge made dozens of studies of foreshortenings of horses and athletes with five cameras capturing the same moment from different positions." via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_time

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RobotToastertoday at 10:00 AM

>if you somehow sort how the synchronisation problem

These days you can just capture video and make a 4d Gaussian splat

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ChrisMarshallNYtoday at 9:09 AM

> ouch, I feel old

Inside of every old man, is a young man, going ”What the hell just happened?”.