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Radiohead have consistently proven themselves to be unpredictable and at the technological forefront of the music industry. Their latest experiment however, takes things in a surprising new direction. The band’s new video for its song ‘House of Cards’ was filmed without any cameras.

The media player-visualizations-on-steroids video was created using a pair of 3D scanners: One from a company called Velodyne, which uses 64 lasers rotating at 900 times per minute, to capture outdoor scenes and environments, and another from Geometric Informatics, which was used to create real-time 3D models of people for close ups. The data from these scanners was then processed and manipulated to create the visualizations seen in the video. Slightly lost? The making-of video should help.

If that wasn’t enough, Radiohead is handing over the piles of complex data to fans to manipulate and create their own videos and visualizations from (if your home computer is capable of the intense number-crunching required). If you just so happen to have tons of time and a super powerful PC sitting around, you can then upload your creation to the ‘House of Cards’ video channel on YouTube. Or just play with the interactive 3D version of the video here. [Source: Google Code - Radiohead]

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