Science AMA Series: I'm Abe Davis, last week my research video about “Interactive Dynamic Video” (IDV) hit the front-page of Reddit, and a bunch of people expressed interest in learning more about it. So here I am, AMA!

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My name is Abe Davis and I’m a PhD student at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), where I’m a member of the lab’s Computer Graphics group.

Basically, IDV is an imaging technique that lets you reach in and “touch” objects in videos. Using traditional cameras and algorithms, it looks at the tiny, almost invisible vibrations of an object in a video to create simulations that you can virtually interact with.

It has interesting implications for entertainment and virtual-reality: whereas Pokemon Go simply drops virtual characters into real-world environments, this lets characters actually interact with their environments in specific, realistic ways, like bouncing off the leaves of a bush.

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">Science AMA Series: I'm Abe Davis, last week my research video about “Interactive Dynamic Video” (IDV) hit the front-page of Reddit, and a bunch of people expressed interest in learning more about it. So here I am, AMA!