Blade runner, we are spending two weeks exploring this unique country as it aims for the moon, reaches for the stars and tries to look after its own backyard. Its going to be a wild ride. And, just like in other parts of the world, a lot of Fascinating Research goes on insidejapans academic institutions. Here at the university of tokyo, theyre putting something very interesting down on paper. This is projection mapping, where an image is projected onto a specially marked surface and as the surface moves, the projector warps its image to keep it in the right place. The difference between this and everything we have seen previously is just how accurately the project follows the surface. The system is scanning the marker dots and understands the scene 1000 times every second, which really is faster than the eye can see. And its this super fast processing of the environment that professor Masatoshi Ishikawa thinks will be necessary when we hand over more control to machines. How have you d
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