Real-Time Intimate Reality

About two and half years ago I wrote Beyond Blogging: Real-Time Intimate Reality on my old blog Planet P.

Well, it looks like one of the key technologies I speculated about now has a working prototype called Reality Fly Through developed by computer scientists at UCSD. Here's the link to some video demos.

On the one hand these technologies could be used for surviellance by those at the top, on the other hand, these same technologies as I pointed out will radically democratize and decentralize surviellance into what Steve Mann calls sousveillance.