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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July 13, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Ammmmmazzed
July 13, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Wow What A Thing. Amazing.
July 13, 2007 at 11:00 pm
That’s really A-M-A-Z-I-N-G
July 13, 2007 at 11:19 pm
WOW Holy S&$!T this is truly awesome!
July 14, 2007 at 3:21 am
This is seriously amazing. I can’t contain my excitement.
July 14, 2007 at 11:20 am
Absolutely amazing. Love the interaction aspect.
July 14, 2007 at 2:21 pm
wow absolutely stunning
July 14, 2007 at 3:39 pm
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.
July 14, 2007 at 8:42 pm
The address of the demo was in the post. But thanks for the other one.
July 14, 2007 at 11:25 pm
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.
July 15, 2007 at 1:34 am
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.
July 15, 2007 at 4:41 am
thats freakin kool
July 15, 2007 at 3:43 pm
One of the most incredible things I’ve seen since in a while. WIll definitely work well with microsoft surface.
July 15, 2007 at 6:49 pm
We live in the future now. I want my flying car!
July 16, 2007 at 11:25 pm
I think everyone above said it best. Wow.
July 16, 2007 at 11:40 pm
if you want to check out something similar in action visit xrez.com
July 17, 2007 at 3:38 am
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.
July 17, 2007 at 11:40 am
I swear, my pr0n collection will be the first data set large enough to break this
July 17, 2007 at 10:57 pm
thats really amazing but i was expecting a little more from the genius’ at microsoft but maybe im expecting a little to much
July 17, 2007 at 11:13 pm
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.
July 18, 2007 at 12:47 am
:O!!!! amazing !
July 18, 2007 at 1:23 am
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?
July 18, 2007 at 4:17 am
Truly wow! But will we live to see it ?
July 18, 2007 at 6:34 am
Woah!
July 18, 2007 at 11:53 pm
I can see one or two uses for this. Maybe three.
July 19, 2007 at 1:31 am
Oh-my-whatever… beatiful and so damn clever
July 19, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Now if only this didn’t require ActiveX, so those of us who run decent OSes could try it out…
July 20, 2007 at 4:09 am
um, northrop grumman developed this technology about 10 years ago. This is not amazing tech. Look at NGesture.
July 20, 2007 at 12:12 pm
uh smooth, can’t wait till it’s done
July 21, 2007 at 7:33 am
Absolutely AMAZING!!!
Notice he said at the beginning that Microsoft “acquired” this, just as they have most of their major breakthroughs.
July 21, 2007 at 8:11 am
So how can it be militarized?
July 21, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Amazing! I wonder how the technology in the next 20 years would be..
July 21, 2007 at 5:29 pm
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!!
July 21, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Very clever software, I’m installing the plugin now so I can test it out for myself.
July 25, 2007 at 11:07 pm
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.
July 26, 2007 at 6:35 am
HOLY GOD!!!
i did the preview and thats amazing.
July 26, 2007 at 1:48 pm
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!
July 26, 2007 at 9:11 pm
This is mind blowing technology. It will lead to future web technology & lot of new interesting applications. I can’t wait to see it.
July 26, 2007 at 10:36 pm
It is fur sure.
July 27, 2007 at 12:34 pm
a very nice and amazing Video……….
July 28, 2007 at 7:35 am
YES I wanted to see the mandlebrot set..
July 28, 2007 at 5:26 pm
This was really good!
July 29, 2007 at 3:29 pm
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.
July 29, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Coolest thing I have seen from Microsoft since they “invented” windows!
August 2, 2007 at 5:22 pm
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
August 2, 2007 at 5:50 pm
It’s got a “Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Earth” feel to it.
August 6, 2007 at 9:30 am
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.
August 6, 2007 at 10:04 pm
so cool nice so ammazing too
August 6, 2007 at 10:09 pm
hi all
August 7, 2007 at 6:31 am
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