I received this email describing recently canceled Nikon projects:
Nikon were working on a method of embedding camera motion data, as detected by VRII lens data, in a video file. The idea was to record .nev video at resolutions higher than standard (upwards of 500 pixels on all 4 sides) and remove motion shifts by extrapolating the VRII data. This was out-of-camea processing as it was very CPU intensive. The results worked quite well for small, high-frequency motion, but ultimately was deemed not worth the effort. This required significant architecture change to camera internals and was several years from deployment when cancelled.
