The screen went black. A line of green text crawled across the bottom: Interpolating unseen reality.

He ran the footage again, cranking the "Deep Trace" setting to maximum. The software began to hum, his computer fans screaming. The video transformed. It wasn't just his apartment anymore. The walls in the video began to peel away, revealing a landscape of endless, rusted gears and black water.

He opened his thesis project—a simple handheld shot of his empty apartment—and ran it through the software.