The internet didn't explode immediately, as for approximately thirty seconds after the Lucid Studio announcement went live, there was an eerie stillness across every platform.
It was as though humanity's collective brain had encountered information too large to process at normal speed and needed time to catch up with what it was seeing.
Then the reactions began, and they came from every angle simultaneously.
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The first wave was raw disbelief.
"I need someone to tell me I'm reading this correctly. They just announced a platform that lets you make MOVIES. Full-length, Hollywood-quality MOVIES. From your bedroom. With no crew. No sets. No actors. Just... your brain and a Lucid device."
"16K resolution. 480 fps. Real-time rendering. I work in VFX for a major studio. We have render farms that cost millions of dollars and they can't do this. This is technology that shouldn't exist for another decade minimum."
