MIT researchers use ordinary cameras to create extraordinary interactive videos

Augmented reality is in the news plenty lately, but some researchers from MIT have put an interesting twist on the popular technology. Using new algorithms and as little as a few seconds of video created by a traditional camera, they've been able to create Interactive Dynamic Video, or IDV. The objects respond in a surprisingly realistic way as they're poked, prodded and manipulated. IDV records the tiny vibrations of an object in motion during a short video clip, and then uses that informat...