MS Photosynth - Jaw-dropping demo
Take yourself to this video of a presentation at the 2007 TED Conference. Don’t argue just take a look! (Thanks to Phil Bradley for the heads-up)
It is appropriately labeled as a Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo by Microsoft’s Blaise Aguera y Arcas. Watch out for the bit where he zooms in to the book.
Now go and have a play with it yourself here.
Next, mash together in your mind this, plus the Microsoft Surface technology and the Mulltitouch technology that I’ve discussed before.
Finally, go lay down in a darkened room and imagine the way we will interact with our digitized resources in a few years time.
Personally I can’t wait!
June 16th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Thanks for spreading the word, Richard.
I wrote a little about the possibilities of linking Surface and Photosynth a couple weeks ago, too:
http://www.lackoftalent.org/michael/blog/2007/05/30/visionary-visualization-from-microsoft/
Glad we’re all paying attention to this great work.
June 18th, 2007 at 4:23 am
I saw this demo’d at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) meeting back in 2004 when it was called Seadragon and was a seperate company. I almost (along with eveyrone else in the room) fell out of my chair when they demo’d it. Even then you could hear the immediate buzz as people began to talk about how this could be utilized in so many amazing ways. He demo’d it on his photo collection of his child and it was mind-boggling fast and intuitive and just oh so cool. I am really looking forward to it picking up some steam in the next year and seeing what people utilize it for in the “real world”.
June 18th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
I also saw a demo of this, at the RLG members’ meeting a year or so ago. I tried to get EDINA interested; not sure what happened in the end.
I did try clicking on your demo link. Of course, it is not a straight-forward web interface, relying on stuff loaded into your computer, and currently only works on Windows XP2 or Vista. I’m a Mac user currently, so tough! And my nearest (home) XP machine… has the wrong kind of graphics card.
I’m not blaming them, and I DO think it’s absolutely magic technology, but it’s not going to change the world for a while yet!