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### *Augmented Reality* has taken over regular gaming by storm.
Games like ***"Pokemon Go"***, that are a mixture between real life and virtual objects, seem to be the new trend - together with Virtual Reality systems, that make you feel like you *are* in a completely different world.

But *combining* both worlds, real and virtual, hasn't always been very easy.
Hollywood can do it with a million dollar budget, but now, a new technology will **revolutionize** the industry:
### The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has just discovered a new method called "Interactive Dynamic Video". 
The technology works by recording a short clip of your environment with a regular camera.
Then, the software **analyzes** the ***vibrations***, and can therefore **calculate** how the object would naturally move if you were to touch it or interact with it. 

### This short video explains and demonstrates the technology:
https://youtu.be/4f09VdXex3A

So this means that you could ***interact*** with any game or any movie you watch.
Just imagine looking at a picture of a beautiful landscape, and you could poke and push the flowers - and they would actually ***respond*** to your action!

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If this was integrated into a game like Pokemon Go, it could become much more realistic: The Pokemon could hide under a table or jump on a bush which shakes in return, or a Poke-Ball could bounce off a tree etc. 
**This would add another dimension to our gaming experience!**
Of course, the technology is not quite ready yet to be implemented on such a large scale, but it's a ***possibility*** for the future.
### This is how it might look like if Pokemon Go was equipped with Interactive Dynamic Video:
https://youtu.be/9f1fCCb3hVg
As you can see, it makes the virtual characters appear to be much more realistic, because they are actually *interacting* with your environment. 

**Abe Davis,** student at the MIT and inventor of the software, developed it as a part of his PhD dissertation. 
Although he hasn't initiated any commercial uses yet, this technology could soon **revolutionize** the Entertainment industry. 

Currently, big Hollywood Productions let their virtual characters interact with the real world by adding a lot of virtual elements.
In the video above, the example of **Jurassic Park** is shown: Movies like that are being filmed in a relatively empty environment. 
Then, the dinosaur gets added in virtually, along with lots of **virtual plants** that he can then tread down.
That means a lot of work for the editors!
### But with IDV, you could just film in an environment with *real* plants, and manipulate their movements afterwards with a few clicks. 

IDV could also be used to find out how an object would react under certain conditions, without the dangers of actually testing it.
For example: It could be calculated how buildings would react/move in the event of an ***earthquake***, and according to that Data architects could improve their work to make the building more stable and safe. 

### Davis has actually also talked about his revolutionary new technology in a TED Talk, explaining how it works in detail:
https://youtu.be/npNYP2vzaPo

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### Obviously, this new IDV technology is still far from being implemented in mainstream Entertainment products, but it's definitely an interesting new way of Augmented Reality that might be used a lot in future gaming and film making.
### I guess my kids will have lots of fun with new technologies like this one!

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