alt Hacker NewsWell, in blade runner he looks around a corner and zooms in microscopic detail on something not visible from the photo.
But the esper interface is all voice activated, and doesn't talk back - which I think is very prescient, and more likely the way things will go. I'd much rather voice assistants just did the thing that I want them to do rather than talk back to me
I've never forgotten this SIGGRAPH demo from almost twenty years ago, in which the authors effectively switch camera and light source computationally (... in a static scene) [1]
Ever since then, I have viewed scenes such as the "lingerie store scene" from Enemy of the State [2] with a little bit less eye rolling...
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5_tpq5ejFQ
[2] - https://youtu.be/3EwZQddc3kY?t=6