The Next Medium: Why Real-Time Interactive Video Changes Everything — Ahmed Ahres, Reactor
Ahmed Ahres argues that real-time interactive video is not just faster but an entirely new medium — similar to how GPS transformed navigation and viewfinders changed filmmaking.
He defines world models as video generated so quickly you can control it while it's being created, demonstrating this by prompting a cat into a scene while it's still generating. This opens three possibilities: control spaces where you get immediate feedback, worlds where AI characters can train robots or be used in education, and live avatars (which he acknowledges still don't work well). Technically, it requires completely new systems — instead of sending files back, servers must stream pixels in real-time, each session must remember what happened, and latency must stay under 100 milliseconds.
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