The images and video are converted into data bits

I immediately distrust this writer’s opinion of anything technical.

[Stone] and Howell also point to a whole new realm, called “performance transfer,” that allows an actor to play their role in street clothes on a stage with only minimal shooting on location; the performance is then “transferred” so that it appears the actor was with the cast running through the streets of Paris or engaging in an intense showdown in Beijing, a kind of three-dimensional ADR.

Oh thank god someone’s using this sensibly. The model works better when you’re changing stuff then when it has to make everything up. A couple actors and some half-assed props can become any interactions that a shot requires. Same deal with voice acting - typing in dialog will probably always suck, but now any actor can Billy West a whole cast.