Scarywarhol said: "All obvious arguments about how utterly reprehensible it would be on a philosophical level aside, the thing people seem to still be confused about after over a decade of hype surrounding the word is that HOLOGRAMS DO NOT EXIST, and are nowhere near existing in any sense that people mean when they use that word. Despite what media falls for as a "hologram" the best you're getting is a projection of a video on a scrim."
Agreed with the non existent of it all, but, I just participated on an AI panel with other Hollywood creatives, which has been my main breadwinner for the last twenty-five years, and fear is running rampant. Yes, the "filmed" image is a completely different medium but I've been wondering if using the rapidly changing tech, Light Field Labs are just one company pushing the envelope, at what point will the tech evolve to the point that audiences will suspend disbelief? I argued that theater is the last bastion of immediacy for dynamic human interaction, which cycles back to my earlier point of production costs.
To take that one step further, we're already seeing multiple layoffs within the working class, of which we're all members, so when will that become the primary concern for the government and for what it means for society at large? If Joe Average can't earn any shekels, he ain't gonna spend whatever he has on going to the theater and they are the heaping proportion of the audience. That's my genuine concern which is why I posted the question about AI augmentation; short term skepticism versus the long range reality.
