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Well, pedantically, demonstrated 148 years ago by Muybridge[0]

[0] "In 1878–1879, Muybridge made dozens of studies of foreshortenings of horses and athletes with five cameras capturing the same moment from different positions." via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_time

My pedant self stands corrected. I wonder if some crazy people made a reverse praxinoscope now.

>if you somehow sort how the synchronisation problem

These days you can just capture video and make a 4d Gaussian splat

My constraint was a tongue-and-cheek "use as little technology as possible" (like what was available in 1999). I think nowaydays it's still more economical to do one pass of photogrammetry on your talent then do a mocap and actor replacement ?

> ouch, I feel old

Inside of every old man, is a young man, going ”What the hell just happened?”.