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Photosynth Prototype

July 13, 2007Photography69 Comments


This is an amazing piece of technology, presented at a TED conference. I really can’t explain it better than the video below. Enjoy !

If you can’t see this video click here.

More information is available on the Microsoft Research Website.

There is also a live preview of this software available online. All you need to do is install a 5.5 MB Photosynth ActiveX. The address is : http://labs.live.com/photosynth/

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Written by Alex

Doctor with a passion for all things design, co-founder of CrazyLeaf Design, zaBox, Design-Freebies.com, WeSellDesign.com and 201px.

  • http://www.km2.org.uk Ricardinho

    Ammmmmazzed

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  • http://www.healthytapwater.com jon

    Wow What A Thing. Amazing.

  • http://filippopisano.com Fulippo

    That’s really A-M-A-Z-I-N-G

  • jay

    WOW Holy S&$!T this is truly awesome!

  • Crispen Stanbach

    This is seriously amazing. I can’t contain my excitement.

  • http://www.myspace.com/djphooka Phooka

    Absolutely amazing. Love the interaction aspect.

  • brent

    wow absolutely stunning

  • Victor

    i tried most of the different sites that carry a live demo and they all work, though it did take me a sec to find the actual demo links. so here ya go:

    http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/applet/index.html
    http://labs.live.com/photosynth/systemcheck.htm

    both sites are really cool.

  • http://www.crazyleafdesign.com Alex

    The address of the demo was in the post. But thanks for the other one.

  • http://webtorque.org Jonathan

    I was duly impressed – it is a great technological feat. But I do have some reservations, which I blogged about here http://webtorque.org/?p=256

    What do you think? Perhaps I’m being unfair – I really don’t want to do the creators of this down.

  • http://www.crazyleafdesign.com Alex

    The fact remains that this is a prototype that’s going to be exploited a lot in the following years. Thus some good (innovation) has to come out of it.

  • Huda

    thats freakin kool

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  • Leon

    One of the most incredible things I’ve seen since in a while. WIll definitely work well with microsoft surface.

  • http://www.narcissica.com/ Narcissica

    We live in the future now. I want my flying car!

  • http://www.omfg-wtf.net Twig

    I think everyone above said it best. Wow.

  • erin

    if you want to check out something similar in action visit xrez.com

  • http://www.graphita.com David

    Its people sharing everyday snapshots that can actually collectively effect change. I challenge you to define something you care about and to distribute a picture that expresses your desire for change…www.graphita.com

    Notes on high resolution images are cool.

  • http://linkyme.com/fast-stumbles/ Fast Stumble Exchange

    I swear, my pr0n collection will be the first data set large enough to break this

  • The Man with the Hammer

    thats really amazing but i was expecting a little more from the genius’ at microsoft but maybe im expecting a little to much

  • Mushroomjay

    I can only imagine Microsoft taking this idea, giving it a new BG color, and re-naming it “Microsoft Photo”. They really should have simply released the source and let Linux users take care of it.

  • Compositor

    :O!!!! amazing !

  • http://cmbuckley.co.uk Chris Buckley

    At around 1.20, he zooms in on Bleak House. Was anyone else hoping he’d zoom in on the Mandelbrot set just next to it?

  • HAB 1116

    Truly wow! But will we live to see it ?

  • me

    Woah!

  • http://www.absolutemichigan.com/ farlane

    I can see one or two uses for this. Maybe three.

  • He

    Oh-my-whatever… beatiful and so damn clever :D

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  • Adrian Forest

    Now if only this didn’t require ActiveX, so those of us who run decent OSes could try it out…

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  • noname

    um, northrop grumman developed this technology about 10 years ago. This is not amazing tech. Look at NGesture.

  • http://www.tecfan.moo.no Tecfan

    uh smooth, can’t wait till it’s done

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  • FahKingNut

    Absolutely AMAZING!!!

    Notice he said at the beginning that Microsoft “acquired” this, just as they have most of their major breakthroughs.

  • pentagon

    So how can it be militarized?

  • http://cyberhousewife.com/ Leah

    Amazing! I wonder how the technology in the next 20 years would be..

  • oldtimer

    It seems the more data that is entered by us the users, makes a more complete picture,maybe this is a push in the right direction towards a crude holo technology?? probably not in my lifetime.lol. I liked how it seemed to be layered and you could find say a car,look at the engine,then at a cylinder,then at the cylinder rings,and then go to another spot on the screen and get the tech specs for that specific part. NICE!!

  • http://www.chopaway.com Will

    Very clever software, I’m installing the plugin now so I can test it out for myself.

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  • http://www.craniumdesigns.com Steve

    Imagine this being linked to wikipedia. It will be like google earth, but being able to tour the earth from almost any viewing angle in a spacial 3d world, not just from above. throw this all together with google maps and we’ve got a duplicate of the major parts of the world.

  • http://myspace.com/danielcarton daniel

    HOLY GOD!!!

    i did the preview and thats amazing.

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  • http://www.thanassis.com thanassis

    amazing technology! – I would like to see it mashed up with web services and media. It could become the perfect medium for rich media web browsing!

  • http://www.vistahunt.com vistahunt.com

    This is mind blowing technology. It will lead to future web technology & lot of new interesting applications. I can’t wait to see it.

  • http://www.powerpoint.web-log.nl Roelof

    It is fur sure.

  • Raghibsuleman

    a very nice and amazing Video……….

  • reid

    YES I wanted to see the mandlebrot set..

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  • Addies

    This was really good! :)

  • http://www.bingogenius.com Genius

    This is truely awesome and inspiring. I take my hat off to people who come up with ideas like this and then put them into practice.

  • http://www.thesmartass.info Xevor

    Coolest thing I have seen from Microsoft since they “invented” windows!

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  • Mad M

    Nice, i wonder what the hell wouldt happen to pictures of naked women with this ( not that i’m a **** fan) it just came up in me like, mhm :D

  • Lisa Haid

    It’s got a “Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Earth” feel to it.

  • http://alitaqvi.stumbleupon.com alitaqvi

    Indeed it was amazing, squeezing the real globe into a globe on your desktop, hope it will lead to that. But who is going to benefit, the pros and the masters, sitting in hi-tech environment and leading the world to don’t know where. I only wish that tech is not hi-jacked for military purposes only. let the world come together with this. All stars to the innovator.

  • monester69

    so cool nice so ammazing too

  • monester69

    hi all

  • http://www.sudoku.newask.org Daniel

    I have to say, that I could not agree with you in 100% regarding o.us poetry, but it’s just my opinion, which could be wrong :)

  • http://betterthanmisery.com eliesheva

    Nice accent, dude.

  • http://www.gamingmoments.net mandrill

    Holy. Cow.

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  • http://tun3r.com Neil Hepburn

    This is an impressive demo, but I have to question one thing: The guy giving the demo claims that the only limitation should be the pixels displayed on the screen. I don’t quite buy this, and wonder if there are some “smoke and mirrors” here. Namely, I wouldn’t be surprised if the entire set of images was stored in RAM, as opposed to disc. They could easily be running off of 1 terabyte of RAM (he mentions hundreds of gigabytes of data, but I think you could easily fit this in RAM on a high-end server).

    If the image is in RAM, then by definition, any part of it can be accessed in the same amount of time. If, on the other hand it’s on disc, then depending on what part of the image is being requested, access times will vary since the drive head is required to physically move, especially under a large multi-user workload.

    That said, there is much work on solid-state storage devices that are random access, so these may come to the rescue.

    If anyone knows the answer to this question, I’d love to hear it.

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  • http://www.problogdesign.com Michael from Pro Blog Design

    Great video – Thanks for it. :)

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  • http://www.yourchessgame.com Hyrum

    Where is the video? I can’t see it.

  • http://www.crazyleafdesign.com Alex

    @Hyrum … You will need flash player to see the movie. Try here : http://jereds.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/the-tech-of-today-experience-photos-in-3d/

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  • Aldo

    This is terribly cool.

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  • HARDY

    HE IS THE GREATEST NERD I VE EVER SEEN:) BRAVO BRAVO !!
    BUT NEXT TIME USE EYE-GLASS..SOON YOU LL HAVE OPTICAL PROBLEMS:)

  • http://www.cafepress.com/cardsagogo xrayspecs

    I’m wondering about how this will effect photographers and the whole copyright thing. That guys says himself that they just grabbed a bunch of photos from Flickr. It’s a worrying prospect, but very cool technology, yes.

  • http://www.crazyleafdesign.com Alex

    @xrayspecs : I’m guessing it’s no copyright problem since the photos aren’t used in a commercial project. Those photos were used as a demonstration, and I’m guessing that all were marked as “public”, so …

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  • http://www.smartfolio.co.uk SmartFolio

    I agree, well said. Very good website.

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  • Lisa

    I have not been this impressed since they mapped the human genome!

  • http://www.anna-sophia-robb.info/2007/07/annasophia-robbs-personal-life.html Anna Sophia Robb

    Hi there…Man i just love your blog, keep the cool posts comin..holy Wednesday

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  • http://www.go-gulf.com Dubai Web Design, Development

    Excellen Video. It is lot more easier to learn through video ratther then reading the tutorials.Alex is right we can’t explain about the video in words.

  • http://www.acuitydesigns.net Mel Ndiweni

    that is…AMAZING

  • http://stuffheaven.com/ Passion From StuffHeaven

    Just the awesome video..Thanks for sharinf it.

    10x

  • http://www.birdfeedersunlimited.com David

    Whether or not this technology is new it is dazzling! Thanks.

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  • http://www.discountwebdesign.co.uk Imroz @ web design

    Thanks a lot for the info and video.

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  • http://websparkles.com Ashley Jones

    Nice Post. Thanks for sharing useful information through this video.

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