Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth Demo

[nathanaelawrence]

The Photosynth project was announced in 2006 July.

2006 November: The first Photosynth viewer with four or five pre-computed synths was released.

2008 August 20: The first version of Photosynth that allowed anyone to synth their own images together and upload their synths to stream to anyone over the internet was released.

2009 December 02: Photosynths were viewable on Bing Maps at the maps/explore page.

For more information search the net for "Seadragon and Photosynth Media Resources".

[Classroommovies]

as cool as this is i doubt it would work properly, and it would be extreamly slow unless you have a top end computer

[Classroommovies]

@Classroommovies and a fast internet connection

[nathanaelawrence]

@Classroommovies The smaller your screen, the less fast your connection has to be.

Check out the free iSynth app. It doesn't let you add photos, but you can at least view synths on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

[nathanaelawrence]

@Classroommovies I have several old PCs around my house and they all run the old Direct3D Photosynth viewer quite fast. The old D3D viewer only works on Windows in Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer, though.

The new Silverlight viewer can be used by more people (in all major browsers on Mac and Windows), but Silverlight 4 can't use your video card for 3D yet, so it has to do all the 3D on your CPU, which is a bit slower unless you have a good CPU.

[pascbjumper2]

Wow.. that's.. amazing. Is this available?

[nathanaelawrence]

@pascbjumper2 Yep! Just visit photosynth (dot) net

[pascbjumper2]

@nathanaelawrence Thanks just used it. Looks pretty cool.

[theTRUE1414]

the prblem about this , is privecy... e.g google earth shows images of peoples houses n stuff ... so in my opion it can b bad.. but nvm iz still cool

[Spitefulgod2]

I've seen the MS photo 3D reconstruction demo on their website but this is way cooler.

[tamrix]

They guy who acually made that 3d image program was uni student and he did that for his PhD assignment..

microsoft then brough a team of image designers who created the zooming in and out feature and the feature where u see all thumbnails of the image, these guys ten brought this Uni students program..

chances are microsoft will fuck it up..

[nathanaelawrence]

@tamrix They haven't messed anything up yet. ツ

Noah Snavely is the Ph. D. student that you're talking about and although Noah showed his research to a lot of people, Microsoft was the first company to actually begin work on making it useful to people and their Seadragon technology for streaming the images makes it one of the best versions of the idea around.

Panoramio's 'Look Around' feature (also seen as 'User Photos' in Google Street View) was the second big implementation.

[biofusion]

Vordhosbnbg, you can't prove that Google would release this for free. You also can't prove Microsoft won't make this a free-app. Stop being anti-business.

[vordhosbnbg]

It would be very nice if it was developed by Google for example. Not because they would make it better (not that they wouldn't), but because it will be free and the database would be all the photos in google cache. They could use it right now. But i am sure Micro$oft will try to squeeze big money from this.

[SomeKckAss]

this looks absolutetly amazing

[kakdiesel]

with anything, Microsoft knows this technology is not limited to 2-D photo. Its just a base. When they can incorporate video, then you will soon realize internet browsing with moving pictures (video) will create such a virtual reality experience while web surfing that you literally can immerse yourself into a different world at any place and any time that you want.

imagine that experience

[makingstuff]

kool

[molotovjester]

i like the implication that a RL environment could be completely reconstructed from millions of peoples 2d photos. If the technology ever has room to extract stills from video - then you could feasibly create an entire 3d environment from merely using your camcorder to tape the real thing. Imagine sending one of our microbots through the human body in the blood stream or digestive system to take photos of it - a 3d map of the human body from the inside.

[g256]

Microsoft - We like your money

It's kinda cool but WHY, this is one of the biggest software giants who live and breathe propriety content and they seem to want to crawl the web for other people's images and steal them for their database.

And the result? An utterly useless way to browse photos.

[biofusion]

You're a moron, so now because Microsoft is innovating it's a terrible thing? This technology is not useless, stop being an idiot and realize how much potential this has.

[thejasonshow]

Hey whereismarty, If you cant see beyond the lines of how this technology will evolve "search" and the internet experience in real time, then yes, this is pointless.

[captainhowdy27]

...not in 10 years time, it won't be.

[whereismarty]

pointless piece of software. :)

[Th3rm02]

You are an idiot.

This changes everything.

[biofusion]

This is huge, you're an idiot.