Virtual Nostalgia

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have introduced InteRecon, a program that enables users to recapture real-world objects in a mobile app, and then animate them in mixed-reality environments. Jeff and Anthony discuss the notion of ownership, nostalgia, and replacing real-world possessions with digital replacements.

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0:00.0	I'm doomed. It's just not the house for that. This is we have concerns.
0:18.7	Hi, Jeff Kanata. Hi, Anthony Carbone. Hello, concerned citizens.
0:23.5	Anthony, we've talked about this. I don't need to feel guilty. I, I'm. Sounds like something you
0:29.6	need to feel guilty for. Sounds like the telltale heart thumping and bumping under those floorboards to me,
0:34.2	bud. No, you don't need to make me feel guilty about how much crap I hold on to.
0:41.5	Emotionally?
0:42.8	Well, that.
0:43.9	But also physically.
0:45.1	Physically, sure.
0:46.2	Actual objects in my house that I, we've talked, we talked about this just recently
0:51.0	about the notion of the space that I have is filled with things.
0:58.0	You know, I have, I have more space than is good for me.
1:00.4	Sure.
1:00.7	And it's filled with objects that I find to be essential to my life, even though I haven't
1:08.0	looked at them in a decade.
1:09.6	Right.
1:10.2	And, like, you do have a lot of, listen, I will say this, you do have a lot of space.
1:15.6	And you could fill that space with your things.
1:18.6	But I find you often forget that there are three other people with three other lives worth of things living in your house.
1:26.1	Yeah, but those people, they don't need the stuff I need.
1:29.9	Yeah, and their stuff isn't cool.
1:31.9	No, no, they don't have like 30 years of cool stuff hanging around.
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