Technology Report - Tricks in Digital Video

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VOA Learning English, this is the Technology ReportMovies are about appearances. Movie fans know that the action hero the film "Superman" does not really fly. But in movie "Superman Returns," another visual trick is used. The they see flying is not a real person. He what is called a virtual actor. The first step creating a digital actor is to have a real stand in a room called a light stage. A records the shape of the actors face. Computer Scientist Debevec is with the Institute for Creative Technologies at University of Southern California. He says special lighting and different cameras are used to create the digital imageMr.. is part of a team working to create computerized of people, objects and environments that look and act . The light stage permits actors to be turned into versions of themselves. Similar technology could appear soon. Computer at the Institute are developing a three-dimension video teleconferencing . They hope to send a 3-D video image of person to a meeting room. The image would be to work with the people in the room, who see it without special eyeglassesPaul Debevec says 3-D meetings make it seem like all of the attendees are the room together. How far are we from 3-D ? Paul Debevec says businesses will begin to use 3-D teleconferencing in the next five years. The Institute is its light stage and Interactive 3-D technology to record testimonies of Holocaust survivors for the Shoah Foundation, also USC. The 3-D images could be shown in classrooms museumsFor VOA Learning English, I'm Laurel Bowman. (Adapted from radio program broadcast 8Apr2013)

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