That's interesting stuff..
I was never much into graphics or video (at least not then).
But when I was a student at UC Berkeley (1970-71) they had an ad-hoc computer science department (as opposed to electrical engineering with same name). An early computer graphics person, John Whitney, was associated with the then, very tiny, department.
And when I moved to Interactive Systems in Santa Monica circa 1980, Ivan Sutherland was, I think, on our board of directors.
I was always and operating system and networking person, so I thought the graphics stuff was way super cool even if I had no clue how to do it.
However, when I was doing network video I was pushing very hard for the addition of a meta-track to define objects and motions in video - for cheap product placement - and also to modify the audio/video in ways like live actors do when something happens in the audience space - I was trying to break the 4th wall.
But Cisco wanted none of it for a very stupid reason.
Karl Auerbach
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