Incremental quantitative advances in bandwidth, video frames per second, cloud based storage and processing and other technologies have reached a tipping point, with qualitatively new opportunities for learning now emerging.

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The 8 megapixel rear-facing camera records HD video in 1080p at 30 frames per second, while the front-facing camera records in 720p HD.

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If all goes well, the Curiosity spacecraft will film the last two or three miles of its descent in high-definition video at five frames a second, recording for the first time an actual landing on another planet.

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Dr McCreary says he has monochrome displays in the laboratory that can show video at 20 frames per second, and later this year the firm plans to demonstrate a colour display for the first time.

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They're also gearing up for the LG Viewty, a high-feature camera phone that shoots videos at 120 frames per second and, in certain markets, uploads the video to YouTube with a single click.

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The app takes a number of successive video frames and processes them into a single, static image that improves on the original in a variety of ways.

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At the moment, digital video cameras take poor quality stills, and digital still cameras take poor quality video (largely because they have to compromise quality in order to perform all that interpolation on several frames per second).

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