Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo

[derick1259]

I actually enjoyed this presentation more than an Apple conference and I just noticed why. Apple take their products and call it "revolutionary" so the crowd goes wild. This presentation however, barely uses any superlatives he doesn't need to call it amazing all he does is tell it like it is. it's absolutely amazing!

[Ko252]

This is like CT/MRI. WOW!!!

[ThunderAppeal]

And behind the curtain he's running a cluster of Linux machines to power the graphics.

But pay no attention to those 'limits'.

[jerramy]

long live the geeks of the world yeaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. They are so intelligent and will save us as long as they can work out that the world is huger than they even realized. Keep rokin on and keep discovering, and dont let the others hold you back. Way too cool dude.

[sphism]

Google didn't buy it. Microsoft did, trying to use it with crappy silverlight. That's why you've not heard any more about it in 2 years ;)

[098anne]

Wow. It looks amazing! I want it!!

[rayne0]

I've been working with a group thats attempting to make a six video series using Halo 3 and CG, but to do the CG they need reference photos of objects in the game. I used photosynth to make 3D references for them and it has been VERY effective. So this program works with both the real world and virtual words. I find it incredible that this works so well.

[guitar2012]

incredible .!

[niggatime1]

i feel retarded compared to the future, dont take my name into consideration with that last phrase.

i love tech.

perception on worls has now been altered..

yup yup

[arbide2]

HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!! For once I am truly gobsmacked, but the thing is, is that this talk is from more than 2 years ago, and this is the first time I have ever seen this technology, why???????????????

[Foxx3699]

Met Blaise very briefly this weekend at Wood's Hole- wish I knew about this before-hand, would have loved to have picked his brain about this!

[soundofgeek]

Not hard to see why Google bought this. Google Earth, anyone? Brilliant.

[InspiringEducation]

Who thinks this would work well in a classroom?

[MoogledKupo]

stepmania is better

[SpiritualAtheist]

My jaw did indeed drop. Success!

[AcidRain64]

Craaazy cool and crazy impressive! Wow!!

[Mberwas]

WOW.

[sk8rguy101]

So awesome!

[Jagieeellll]

Amazing technology !!! Gratulation !!!

[amjPeace]

I guess I'm gonna have to check for chin hairs before I'm photographed from now on! Keep smilin'

[semo2010]

actually is much simpler than it seems if i got it right , you take the photo info stored in JPEGs and link them together in one place .... as simple as it sounds its extremely neat ... these kind of ideas are the most impressive ... when something is so dumb obvious but no one has thought of it .. !

[nilbud]

It's the scaling and pattern recognition is the beautiful bit. I wonder how it knows which image is authoritative. That's it I've got to get a load of money get some Nvidia Teslas and a bank of projectors going. Finally, something to show on a 50m screen.

[boylebongo]

This is a little difficult to understand. I wonder if this will take off... I wanna see this application! <3

[Mainyard48]

This Sounded so fantastic that I went to the Photosynth site. and got this:

"Windows XP SP2 and Vista Only

The Photosynth technology preview runs only on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista."

Too bad, but what do expect from Microsoft.

[nilbud]

Try it in wine, the hyperheavy graphics munching is done at the server end, maybe the thing will go, Halo works.