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PhotoSynth

Published on: June 15, 2007 by Paul Boag

Acquired by Microsoft Photosynth is truly amazing. Imagine being able to take every image of Notre Dame off of flickr and join them into a complete 3D model. Or what about being able to zoom in and out of gigabytes of photo data on the fly. Well they are already doing it...

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  • Post by Stefan on June 16, 2007 6:43 PM

    Would expect something similar from Apple. But Microsoft? Looks cool.

  • Post by santosbl on June 16, 2007 9:29 PM

    Stefan: Apple doesn't innovate anything, they just take what already exist and make it look better.

    But something like that zoom thing would be cool to have in a portfolio of websites. =)

  • Post by Oliver on June 17, 2007 9:11 PM

    Wow! This looks really brilliant!
    I can't wait for this to go mainstream... it might even become the start of "Web 3.0" !

  • Post by Nick on June 17, 2007 9:16 PM

    The host summed it up at the end: "That's truly incredible". The wisdom of crowds indeed.

  • Post by Alex on June 18, 2007 1:14 PM

    I saw the demo. This is truly amazing.

    Microsoft, despite making my life hell with their inferior web browser, really have been innovating recently. Anyone seen that computer which you just touch and draw on?

    I would try this out on my machine but it doesn't meet the requirements. :( I guess 256MB RAM just doesn't cut it these days!

  • Post by Wayne on June 18, 2007 8:35 PM

    Try not to confuse innovation with acquisition :)

  • Post by Jean Ness on June 19, 2007 1:12 AM

    Incredible! I love seeing something that was birthed from pure imagination.

    Just imagine the mash-ups that could.....Oh my Apologies...he did say Microsoft.

    Oh well, let me know when the something equally exciting with an incentive based on enriching the overall growth potential for all, is released.

    Something Open Source.

    JNESS

  • Post by Bamboo Lictor on June 19, 2007 7:58 PM

    Amusing to see someone owned by Microsoft make his presentation on what looks like Ubuntu...

    (Higher res might be needed: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=160892972&s=143441&i=16391984)

  • Post by Dustin Noe on June 19, 2007 11:19 PM

    I'd like to see it applied to a web browser. All that info we have always wanted to cram into the homepage would then be possible.

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