Photosynth Prototype
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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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.
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.
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.
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One of the most incredible things I’ve seen since in a while. WIll definitely work well with microsoft surface.
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.
thats really amazing but i was expecting a little more from the genius’ at microsoft but maybe im expecting a little to much
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.
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?
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um, northrop grumman developed this technology about 10 years ago. This is not amazing tech. Look at NGesture.
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Absolutely AMAZING!!!
Notice he said at the beginning that Microsoft “acquired” this, just as they have most of their major breakthroughs.
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!!
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.
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!
This is mind blowing technology. It will lead to future web technology & lot of new interesting applications. I can’t wait to see it.
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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.
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 
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.
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 
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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@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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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.
@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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