Gollum was brought to you by vision technology. It takes a lot of specialized cameras like these to track a lot of dots in 3D. Also, cameras are tracked after the fact by analyzing photography with tools like this and this (search for MARS).
To lump all computer vision together and say "it's not there yet" is phooey! There are lots of problems in vision, and they do get solved, but those problems are all specific-- you can't use a red-light-runner system to do facial tracking...
$2000 is the sweet spot! For a long time ('94-'99?), 20" and 21" CRT prices were flat at ~$2000. A lot of that had to do with the quantity sold (not many) since there weren't as many geeks then as now who would sacrifice the space (and their backs) to have a huge CRT around. Now with flat panel monitors, a 20" screen doesn't take much more desk space than a smaller one, and you can lift one without assistance. That is driving the sales, and they can get cheaper, but I think this is a significant point in the price curve for TFT LCD's of this size-- it could be a flattening out point.
So anyone care to wager when 20" OLED screens hit $2K? I'll guess mid 2006, but I bet Apple will have them all over their notebooks much sooner.
what i pray to see
in a Europa life probe
is the video from a sub
falling, falling, falling,
looking everywhere and finding only
a ring of teeth closing, loss of signal
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This looks like a great way to rake in gamers' email addresses.
To lump all computer vision together and say "it's not there yet" is phooey! There are lots of problems in vision, and they do get solved, but those problems are all specific-- you can't use a red-light-runner system to do facial tracking...
If your 14" flat panel cost $150 last year and has an analog interface, sure the picture looks like garbage.
Now with flat panel monitors, a 20" screen doesn't take much more desk space than a smaller one, and you can lift one without assistance. That is driving the sales, and they can get cheaper, but I think this is a significant point in the price curve for TFT LCD's of this size-- it could be a flattening out point.
So anyone care to wager when 20" OLED screens hit $2K? I'll guess mid 2006, but I bet Apple will have them all over their notebooks much sooner.
what i pray to see in a Europa life probe is the video from a sub falling, falling, falling, looking everywhere and finding only a ring of teeth closing, loss of signal