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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August 7, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Nice accent, dude.
August 7, 2007 at 11:58 pm
Holy. Cow.
August 9, 2007 at 10:06 pm
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.
August 12, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Great video - Thanks for it.
August 16, 2007 at 1:22 am
Where is the video? I can’t see it.
August 16, 2007 at 11:23 am
@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/
August 21, 2007 at 6:34 pm
This is terribly cool.
September 2, 2007 at 1:19 am
HE IS THE GREATEST NERD I VE EVER SEEN:) BRAVO BRAVO !!
BUT NEXT TIME USE EYE-GLASS..SOON YOU LL HAVE OPTICAL PROBLEMS:)
September 11, 2007 at 11:46 pm
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.
September 12, 2007 at 10:18 am
@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 …
September 24, 2007 at 2:30 pm
I agree, well said. Very good website.
October 22, 2007 at 7:28 pm
I have not been this impressed since they mapped the human genome!
October 25, 2007 at 12:39 am
Hi there…Man i just love your blog, keep the cool posts comin..holy Wednesday
July 15, 2008 at 3:32 pm
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.
August 1, 2008 at 4:33 am
that is…AMAZING
August 26, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Just the awesome video..Thanks for sharinf it.
10x
November 25, 2008 at 6:08 am
Whether or not this technology is new it is dazzling! Thanks.
November 23, 2009 at 9:06 am
Thanks a lot for the info and video.