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3-D Surveillance Technology

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-choose-the-3d-pill dept.

scubacuda writes "According to this Technology Review article, a new surveillance technology called Video Flashlight melds 3-D models from background scenes. This "tweening process" allows security persononnel to fly around a subject such as a pedestrian, getting a detailed look without jumping between widely separated views." That's just flat out cool.

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  1. Scary... by donnacha · · Score: 1, Flamebait


    It's kinda scary that the reporter is, in a sense, selling us on this aspect of the ever more frightening reach of surveillance into our lives by tying it in so heavily with one of the coolest films of recent years, The Matrix.

    While the film itself was pretty damn cool, we should bear in mind that the world it depicted would be pretty damn shit to actually live in.