A jaw dropping Microsoft Photosynth demo
Forget everything you know about digital photography because here comes Microsoft Photosynth.
Jason sent me this video and it blew me away. It was presented earlier this year at the TED conference and it’s one of the most impressive visualization technologies that I have seen for a long time.
One of the features I liked most is the ability to see where pictures where taken and seamlessly change the point of view to be as you were standing where the photographer was. Then seamlessly tilt, zoom in or out or continue to change point of views. The speed this is done is extraordinary considering it can run on a browser installed on a standard PC.
It’s a great example of how social data from people’s collective visual memory (photos) can be linked together to make something that is greater than the sum of its part.
I think that after you will play with it you will find it even more impressive than the video.
