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# "Hyperlapse" video gives new perspective to first-person film
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/hyperlapse-video-gives-new-perspective-first-person-film/
- Published: 2014-08-11T15:18:07.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-26T10:35:58.000Z
- Description: Steady as she goes.
- Author: Jamin Warren
- Tags: News, cinematography, hyperlapse video, johannes kopf, Michael Cohen, Microsoft Research, no man's sky, Richard Szeliski, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

If there’s one enduring legacy of games on the cinema (usually it’s the other way around), it’s the first-person perspective. While single-take long shots like those in Alfonso Cuarón‘s *Children of Men* are considered hallmarks of cinematography, games, frankly, have been doing them with ease for quite some time. *Super Mario 64*, for example, made light of this by deciding that the game would have an [*actual* cameraman controlling the player’s camera](http://www.mariowiki.com/Lakitu?ref=killscreen.com#Super%5FMario%5F64%5F.2F%5FSuper%5FMario%5F64%5FDS).

But while no one’s been able to create a playable 3D world filmed in real life, researchers [Johannes Kopf](http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/kopf?ref=killscreen.com), [Michael Cohen](http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mcohen?ref=killscreen.com), and [Richard Szeliski](http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/szeliski?ref=killscreen.com) of Microsoft Research have made a big stride and making the first-person GoPro videos of the world a bit more watchable. Announced via a paper at computer graphics conference SIGGRAPH this weekend, “[hyperlapse video” turns shaky footage of things like rock climbing or mountain biking into a single seamless clip.](http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hyperlapse/?ref=killscreen.com)

The folks at Hello Games, makers of the forthcoming [*No Man’s Sky*](http://www.killscreenmagazine.com/archive/tag/no-mans-sky/?ref=killscreen.com), have already taken notice. “It should totally work for *No Man’s Sky*,” they [tweeted earlier today](https://twitter.com/hellogames/status/498790558782201856?ref=killscreen.com). Turning your runthrough of a first-person game into a single video clip is certainly on the horizon.