According to the information on Wist’s website, the process seems relatively simple: users can use the app to turn a regular smartphone video into a 3D presentation and then play it in place in a virtual reality headset.

what is known

We store color, depth, device position, sound and scene information during shooting. Depth is recorded using LiDAR sensors on iPhone and iPad Pro models,
— Andrew McHugh, co-founder of Wist, explains.

While the concept is definitely hi-tech, it has been seen that many have given up on the idea of ​​playing recorded memories.

• As many Twitter users have pointed out, the demo is eerily reminiscent of the first episode of Black Mirror called “The Whole Story of You”; here a man in love is always – in a brain implant, trying to figure out if his wife is cheating on him.
• Another user pointed to an emotional scene from the 2002 movie A Separate Mind, based on Philip Dick’s novel of the same name, in which the main character re-enacts a memory of his child playing along with the same fuzzy visual cues seen in the Wist demo. .

Looking at the company’s self-published or retweeted videos, it’s clear that although the technology has improved, there is still a lot of work to be done as the final results contain a lot of errors, noise, and foreign objects. For several years.

Unlike sci-fi examples where the California startup’s development is compared, Wist VR users at least have control over the memories they record, and that’s very important.

When the technology might appear in the world and its price are still uncertain.