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Comment author: 9eB1 05 October 2013 10:56:09AM 2 points [-]

Wow. That's super impressive. The camera itself must be mounted on one of those robots to get precision tracking, but they added jitter to make it look more like a human camera that we are used to. The alternative would be real-time rendering of the scenes with motion tracking of the camera's position which strikes me as much less likely.

Anyway, it immediately reminded me of this video which shows a much simpler example of parallax like this. The camera in this case is tracked using a WiiMote sensor. The good part starts around 2:20.

Comment author: Vladimir_Golovin 06 October 2013 04:46:58AM 0 points [-]

Yes, camera is mounted on a smaller robot, and you can even see it in the video. The motion feels natural because it's motion-captured.

As for the real-time rendering of scenes with motion tracking, here's an interesting Star Wars demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdsFEMDceNg

Comment author: Vaniver 13 October 2013 05:46:43PM 2 points [-]

The top comment on that link:

Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to render in real time is insignificant next to the power of storytelling.