{"id":8818,"date":"2024-11-06T00:39:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T00:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/?p=8818"},"modified":"2024-11-06T00:53:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T00:53:59","slug":"inflection-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2024\/11\/06\/inflection-point\/","title":{"rendered":"inflection point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The thing about being in an inflection point is you won&#8217;t see it unless you&#8217;re truly looking ahead \u2014\u00a0or so far back that you can&#8217;t see the present any more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most people, most of the time, assume the future will be like the present. Until it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" class=\"wp-image-8819\" style=\"width: 720px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cinema.gif\" alt=\"\"> <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2024\/10\/07\/how-to-stereo\/\">here<\/a>, our shift towards more and more &#8220;spectacular&#8221; computers (googles, headsets, glasses) means that we&#8217;re going to see much more stereoscopic media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While it may seem like switching between shooting with one eye (lens) and shooting with two eyes (lenses) will be just a matter of 2x more resolution, I think we now have enough evidence to conclude that it will be something altogether different. <br><br>You can draw a sculpture but a sculpture seldom describes a drawing. It&#8217;s another thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s hard to look into the unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our brains are wired for familiar narratives \u2013\u00a0for guessing how a sentence will end based on what&#8217;s come before it.  (It&#8217;s how Language Models work, right?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also have material incentives for assuming that new technologies will best serve existing businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Movies are a well known business; they have prestige and a strong possibility of profits. So why not use stereoscopic capture and playback as part of the movie business?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But focusing on the present \u2013\u00a0or even the recent past \u2013\u00a0may miss the opportunity of what&#8217;s ahead altogether by insisting the new thing look like the old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If anything what stereoscopic already looks like, more than anything else, is theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The surreal experience of people who are right in front of you pretending that they&#8217;re somewhere else, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing about being in an inflection point is you won&#8217;t see it unless you&#8217;re truly looking ahead \u2014\u00a0or so far back that you can&#8217;t see the present any more. Most people, most of the time, assume the future will be like the present. Until it&#8217;s not. As I wrote here, our shift towards more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,10,16,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8818"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8830,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818\/revisions\/8830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}