MIT Media Lab Creates Center for Future Storytelling
"By applying leading-edge technologies to make stories more interactive,
improvisational, and social, researchers will seek to transform
audiences into active participants in the storytelling process,
bridging the real and virtual worlds, and allowing everyone to make
their own unique stories with user-generated content on the Web. Center
research will also focus on ways to revolutionize imaging and display
technologies, including developing next-generation cameras and
programmable studios, making movie production more versatile and
economic. [...] Research will range from on-set motion capture to accurately and
unobtrusively merge human performers and digital character models; to
next-generation synthetic performer technologies, such as richly
interactive, highly expressive robotic or animated characters; to
cameras that will spawn entirely new visual art forms; to morphable
movie studios, where one studio can be turned into many through
advanced visual imaging techniques; to holographic TV. It will draw on
technologies pioneered at the Media Lab, such as digital systems that
understand people at an emotional level, or cameras capable of
capturing the intent of the storyteller." (MIT)
Exciting indeed!
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