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We were working towards this years ago with Doarama/Ayvri, and I remember fondly in 2018 an investor literally yelling at me that I didn't know what I was talking about and AI would never be able to do this. Less than a decade later, here we are.

Our product was a virtual 3d world made up of satellite data. Think of a very quick, higher-res version of google earth, but the most important bit was that you uploaded a GPS track and it re-created the world around that space. The camera was always focused on the target, so it wasn't a first person point of view, which, for the most part, our brains aren't very good at understanding over an extended period of time.

For those curious about the use case, our product was used by every paraglider in the world, commercial drone operations, transportation infrastructure sales/planning, out-door events promotions (specifically bike and ultramarathon races).

Though I suspect we will see a new form of media come from this. I don't pretend to suggest exactly what this media will be, but mixing this with your photos we can see the potential for an infinitely re-framable and zoomable type of photo media.

Creating any "watchable" content will be challenging if the camera is not target focused, and it makes it difficult to create a storyline if you can't dictate where the viewer is pointed.



To be fair, I'm seeing the demo video, and I still don't believe it's possible. This is sci-fi tech.




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