I signed up to this though I can do as much with it as in this video. its not as complex no image reel at bottom, cant switch on images with cloud feature, not really a comlete 3d model can only go left and right.
When Microsoft was making this proprietary technology in Silverlight or DOTNET, Google and Apple and just about any company from silicone valley, were making and using HTML5 and other open standards! Microsoft and its fans lost time going that 2000's proprietary ally. Now Microsoft is also going HTML5 and openness. :-|
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big deal, a human can create a detailed model from a 1/1000th of the number of pictures with infinately more consistancy and detail than a freaking dot model with epaleptic fit inducing photo zooms
@monoham1 try manually doing it for 10 pics with different zoom levels and orientation. please post back the amount of time it takes. You also need to orient the pics in 3d and not in 2d
WHERE IS THE 3D, fucking tired of you fanboys calling this 3D. this is a bunch of pictures put together in a poor way. This is nothing special at all, this is literally something I would expect to find on a random free software site. Like some program to make viewing pictures a bit more easy or fun.. This is ridiculous..
Wonderful! which other place on Earth is so beautiful and best fitted for virtual reality than Italy and his beautiful, richly detailed artistic elements and a 2700 years of history?.
That motherfucker reminds me of how fucking awesome the human mind can be. That dude studied somewhere and learned all this shit and is now a total genius.
Bit strange that people are talking about photoshop, iphoto, cool iris.
Non of these products have anything to do with PhotoSynth. It's all about gathering photo's of specific beautiful places in the world, so you can explore it. In my opinion a very beautiful service.
with the music in the backgroud one cannot hear anything (there is some prob in my internet connection / laptop as well) but the back. music just makes this worse!!
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next gen M$ Paint :D
now seriously, what kinda of "smart" server do this software need to succesfuly copile such a big amount of data, maby NASA will be envious on this !...i can only imagine, and what about the software, that`s way M$ kept their progs. so close source, maybe i`ll take some time to make-it public......
Maybe if you tried it out you'd realize this is a well designed program and was in beta MUCH longer than cooliris and has completely different features! Quit judging a book by its cover and actually try some software out asshole.
Microsoft Office Picture manager comes for free with Office. It is easier and nicer to use than many other photo editors. It is very fast for cropping and resizing. You can even do muliple photo's at the same time. Very nice tool. Don't use iPhoto, it kind of sucks.
first off 'microsoft' did not create this. Blaise Agüera y Arcas created this and it was sold to Microsoft. and to aegnt09: How can you give credit to microsoft for MS paint? you think that is a good program but others suck? haha MS paint is quite possibly the worst 'art' program i have ever used. and this goes for everyone: Make an investment, buy a Mac.
no i'm saying ms paint is an amazing program for simple images. like if i wanted to print screen and paste it in there and crop it. or if i wanted to make just a simple square. although mac does a better job at print screening. it makes a photo on the desktop and then crop it with iphoto.
and paint shop pro is better than photoshop. i wish it would run on mac. unfortunately i have to go into bootcamp to run it.
reminds me of the Encarta Virtual Tour which was available like 10 years ago . Just that the new processors can do all this dynamically . Old wine in a pretty new bottle i'd say.
yes you can, to do this i use a different program called boujou, but it none of these programs create an actual 3D model at all. It just looks at photos and uses mathematical algorithms to look at details and then places points at those places.
To the human eye though, it "looks" like a 3D object but look closer and their just points in space.
How is this amazing.. When I heard of photosynth I expected it to reconstruct a 3d picture made in CGI or w/e, this is just a lot of pictures ... what's so amazing? The only thing it actually does is align the pictures.. like oh this building looks like this one, ill name this one "1" and this one "2". I could without a DOUBT in my mind make this program on my own.
Ridiculous, nothing amazing at all. Barely worth calling it a program. It's just a bunch of pictures...
Wouldn't it be cool if it could generate a simple sky and ground backdrop so it feels more like you're in a place rather than a massive row of photos floating in black space?
this is not new technology, only this is on a much larger scale . And with many many features, I think it needs a good CPU for it to work fast enough.
CardS I think is the word, bridged too. There is no way my piece of crap machine would do that... All we need now is for the open source people to write their own version and make it better as they always do then it will be free too.
Another example would be, say, NASA collects several hundred still images from a space probe, or the Mars rover, etc. They can then take every one of those images and collate them into a panoramic image which you can scroll through in a near-3D image to gain different perspectives and details of the surface of Mars, even incorporating overhead aerial images. Et cetera.
The best examples of what this program is capable of are Obama's inauguration. John King of CNN had viewers send in any pictures they could take from any part of the assembly, from any kind of capture device. He then used Photosynth to create a panoramic image, which he could literally pick a point and zoom in or out for greater or less detail, pan to another point and change focus, even pan to different angles of the same point. All done with single images.
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This is what happens with a group of people with too much time get together. I'm kind of irritated by the whole virtual organic model, the social objects of living oganisms in the digital realms of social combinations. Seriously, everyone is trying to come up with some crap to get bought up by wither google microsoft. Why don't they spend more time trying to figure out how make their existing software more reliable.
google street view is different, they take photos at 360* at the same time and the computers combines them knowing they were made from the same point at the same time, this is usefull for single photos, made by different people at the same location, it would be nice to show them all together but it would all be a mess, and in google street you can move only back and forth in other pictures which are not actually linked, this thing is able to recreate 3d environment from 2d pictures, it's sweet
Wow imagine being able to go on the web and find places or thinkgs of interest and then view them in real time through streaming images...oh wait a minute...we created this over a hundred years ago and now call it video...wanna see St Peters then search it right here on you tube and voila...also many places have now produced 3d virtual tours...this product is everything thats wrong with technological developments today...no direction just random ideas allowed to become finished products...
This is pretty kewl, but think about it.. you could only do this if you had like thousands of pictures, with the same lighting and everything? like lol not kewl.
I think my negativity towards this product is really just resultant of the hype surrounding its release. An article I read had made it seem like it would generate a 3-d model of the scene, not just orientate the pictures in 3-d relative to eachother, which *is* step 1 you're right, but at least combine them into something, I know I took 500 pictures, I don't wanna see all 500 at once with cloudy borders. Either way, I'll be patient! Side note, nav/geo reasearch use=good : military use=bad.
bluecrew I think once the technology is perfected you could easily break down a video into their frames in each video and create a lot of cool services that integrate this technology from a social perspective to other unique creative ideas.
I think if cloud computing mostly but it could be used probably beyond that. I imagine having an algorithm that just does this automatically thus reducing the need for someone to crop these together.
I don't understand what everyone's so crazy about?! The interface on psynth is interpretative at best, getting your bearings is half the battle, moving around causes the photos do this stretch-warp thing in and out rather than transition. The photos not directly being viewed are placed at akward skewed perspectives with overcrowding borders. In the time it takes to capture 500 photos you could have generated the whole scene polygonaly on a computer for a much better result. Or just take a video?
this technology is not necessarily meant solely for recollection purposes or entertainment; imagine the applications for navigational or geographical research, accurate 3-d model representation of the world, or even military use! The possibilities are endless. Besides, with technology, people typically focus too far forward, and ignore or criticize the steps needed to be taken to reach such lengths.
This technology is purely amazing - "cloud network". One point in time, in the very near future, computer and information technology will be so advanced that the way data and information sharing are accessed will be revolutionized and utilized in ways like this - and not just that but almost in so many aspects of life.
Many people may hate Microsoft for different reasons (and some petty), but you have to agree that this kind of stuff is groundbreaking.
If this will be able to work as well as it does in the demo they show, then this would be incredible.
Imagine how much money, if developed right, this could, if nothing else, save 3D animation places. Having their models generated automatically would be pretty amazing and cheap.
I don't get it, most 3D animations are of imaginary places. How are you going to get a huge collection of photographs of an imaginary place? This doesn't appear to create an actual 3D model, it just simulates the experience of an actual 3D space in 2 dimensions. There were no smooth transitions or pans, he just zoomed in and out of different views. Or am I missing something here?
Thanks for your explanation, but I'm still missing the point, as are a lot of other people, apparently. I checked out this video because I was told this software automatically creates 3D models, and a lot of the commenters here seem to believe that it does. I mean, why not just shut off the computer and go outside and sit in an actual Ford Probe? And maybe drive somewhere while your at it, you know, experience actual reality vs. fake reality. Cheers.
Because you no longer have the Ford Probe after you totaled it out. If there are enough views, it is appearing to be 3D like. I think any 3D physical model was taken out of context to a point. There are 3D model creations for machining and manufacturing prototypes out of foam beads. So it is possible in a small scale.
If your told or read an actual point, then a link would clear up the fact.
I think one possibly future application of this software in being able to construct 3D models by possibly blow it into a hologram or sorts. This way, people physically can be inside an space/"building" instead of just being inside a 2D "panorama".
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But why look at a city in this form, when you can actually go to the city itself? Real life is much more beautiful then what computer screens can produce.
You're missing the point I think. Yes you can go there but what about all those pictures you took while you are there? You can either view them in a stale, static environment of your photo album.. or you can photosynth them into a dynamic environment where you can re-experience the place you have visited.. or show people your perspective of what you experienced..
not really you would be able to watch ANYWHERE in the world in real time the news just shows the places where stuff is happening like tornadoes and tsunamis not just looking around city's you want to visit :P
Imagine all pictures ever taken by a digital camera, all posted online into a massive world network. They are all automatically acquired and combined in this way...you could google "Stockholm, Sweden", and just start clicking all around the city, zooming in on random things, constantly switching photographers in order to always see the highest resolution. Combine this with a wrap around monitor and a fast computer...and you could explore the whole city in 3D. Eventually much of the world..
You know that at some point they'll be able to create 3D world by using high resolution cameras, and this software.
This software is also a great step forward in autonomous artificial intellegence. The fact that this software can comprehend three dimension from 2D sources is quite amazing.
Looks great when all the photos are taken from the same spot on the same tripod. A mess when it's different from anybody who posts. One of these things that works great when setup by pros.
The mainstream press reports on photosynth pathetic, most describng it simply as a program that "stitches users photos into a panorama." The supposed tech reporters (for AP, etc.) are terrible
I want: A heads up display that will take in what I am looking at (say by micro sensors on glasses or contacts) that will access all possible information in real time at my request. So If I am in some part of the world I should be able to get all wiki info, and even (perhaps) get a view of someone else who might be standing near by (or who has taken a photo). This will mean I could have access to real-time historical information at certain locations. like a memory!
i was wondering when someone would make something like this. now i'm wondering when someone will link this technology with google earth, then i'll wonder about how it will be implimented into a web based satellite orientated gps system.
Photosynth is much more than the current panorama stiching software. It is able to recognize and relate specific items in the images and position them in 3D.
I really hope the software is released in a state that it is able to relate my pictures of the Eiffel tower to the pictures someone else took. If this is possible, one could develop a system that processes images on Panoramio and generate 3D content of it.
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Wtf? Sticking images together so it shows 360 degrees is panoramic... this isn't new at all and many programs have been made that do similar things to achieve this without using photoshop.
The original description sounded like a much more advanced piece of software like a collection of images can be put together to make a new world, like sticking eiffel tower in London or something. These images have been taken specifically perfect to create a panoramic image... more random images wont work!
Some people just do not understand innovative technology when they see it, you my friend fall very deep into the depths of this category entirely filled with "Special" people.
Microsoft joined their efforts with Google and combined PhotoSynth with Panoramio? This would really make an astonishing application.
I think the combination of the two technologies would mean the start of a whole new era in which people will start to experience the world in a whole new manner.
Geez, i really hope to visit some more wonders of the world this way... Ofcourse after being there in person :-)
In truth I don't understand the negativity. The scope for extension of the technology is truly fantastic. Imagine if the technology was taken to the next level, generating 3D models from the photos and then texturing the models from the photos.
You could take it further by having outdoors seamlessly combine with indoors and you could explore city streets, shopping centres, famous landmarks, even examine rare things the public aren't allowed near from up close.
The only problem is that the recognition part will get more difficult the more pictures it has to examine. So ideally it would need a more specific database structure (based on names of taken pictures for example).
Great, til the ass at the end trys to put the software into some kind of grandoise, virtual reality context, lets be honest, were just going to find a way to use it for porn..
Great, til the ass at the end trys to put the software into some kind of grandoise, virtual reality context, lets be honest, were just going to find a way to use it for porn..
Every time Microsoft does something cool nowadays, there's always people that just say "Apple's better." So what? Just respect what Microsoft is doing to innovate technology, they're not just going to stand back and let Apple control the market.
Last I checked Apple controlled very little of the market. Mp3 players and now the iphone is popular but hitting serious speed bumps in performance at a large scale. Have their personal computers even hit 5% marketshare yet?
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While the idea of "photosynth" as a means of constructing a virtual model of an object is somewhat exciting, it's also very close-minded. Just as there are endless amounts of photographs being taken everyday, there are also endless photographic aesthetics. If the program functions as this video depicts, only photographs of a modernist aesthetic will be incorporated into the model: that is, photographs that are sharp, "well-composed," etc.
I think that's the point. It gives the viewer the ability to explore an environment as it exists. By including poorly composed photograph, as beautiful as they may be, you would detract from the realism and overall usefulness of the tool.
neither Ulead nor Adob Lightroom does this. Ulead 360 creates panoramas from still photographs taken from a single point in space, whereas this software will actually pinpoint a camera's placement in 3d space. Furthermore, this software seems to be a great browsing and exploratory tool, whereas Ulead 360 does not, and Adobe Lightroom does to a lesser degree.
people are way to pre-ocupied about who created or owns the program. at the end of the day this will be a fantastic program that stands a good chance of changing the way people take photos in the future.
imagion not having to explain a place to sombody, you could simply take a few photos from difrent angles and show them in 3D instead.
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The problem is though, that Microsoft will patent this, and have a monopoly in this market. In addition, they will obviously make it compatible with their Operating System only, so it will be a vendor lock-in for anyone willing to use this program. In addition, by owning the software, they can jack up prices and just make more money out of it. If Microsoft were to, on the other hand, release this project under an open source license, or make it freely available on all platforms, I wouldn't mind
To be honest, that sounds more like Apple than MS.
Apple files a lot of ridiculous patents that anyone could come up with. Apple is more locked-in than Microsoft (OSX to Mac, iPod to iTunes, No 3rd party apps. for iPhone, etc.).
this is just microsoft copying other companies ideas again....this is the same as Apple Aperutre and Adobe Lightroom, except that both of those programs can also edit photos as well as do exactly what this video shows in terms of detail viewing of multiple images....Microsoft = lame and years behind AGAIN.
Ulead 360º does this too, though I am not sure whether Ulead or Apple were first. Regardless, it's Microsoft stealing ideas (or desperately buying the product and stamping its logo but not before messing up the source code to add some bugs so that new versions will be a must).
ok buddy show me those programs do that without taging the photo and also go on the internet and get more photos.... oh yea the people talking about MS buying this guess what cover flow was bought by apple god noob ass fanboys
First learn to use punctuation so that others can actually read what you're writing. What the hell did you mean with "show me those programs do that without taging the photo and also go on the internet and get more photos" !? Damn illiterate that likes to have a last word...
one of Microsoft's greatest inventions. that guy is really smart!
MrTommynerd100 1 month ago
I got a feeling that one day in the future, we can explore the real world at real time with this :)
Skyathaniel 4 months ago
I signed up to this though I can do as much with it as in this video. its not as complex no image reel at bottom, cant switch on images with cloud feature, not really a comlete 3d model can only go left and right.
stevemonkey78 5 months ago
good app with cool 3d effect ;)
HDenni32 8 months ago
No words to describe how amazing this is!
kimosabesun 10 months ago 2
wow this is something like google innovates! but better
airjaff 10 months ago
When Microsoft was making this proprietary technology in Silverlight or DOTNET, Google and Apple and just about any company from silicone valley, were making and using HTML5 and other open standards! Microsoft and its fans lost time going that 2000's proprietary ally. Now Microsoft is also going HTML5 and openness. :-|
beardymonger 11 months ago
Chuck Norris has glasses that already do that
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Batman's got nuthin on this shit
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Solanogracy 1 year ago
The Wow starts now xD
TheAntiVirus2000 1 year ago
oh my god blaise you used to look ugly with the hippy hair and the zits =D
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ResultFalse 1 year ago
wow, dig it!
itshelpa 1 year ago
So where is this technology 4 years down the line ?!
Try to guess....
drmkkk 1 year ago
@drmkkk It's in Bing Maps where it has been since August of 2008. =)
It also has its own official website.
nathanaelawrence 1 year ago
Crazy.. finally microsoft doesnt suck that much compared to mac
Pompolius 1 year ago
@Pompolius so hows ur gaming experiance?
iy8686 1 year ago
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big deal, a human can create a detailed model from a 1/1000th of the number of pictures with infinately more consistancy and detail than a freaking dot model with epaleptic fit inducing photo zooms
monoham1 2 years ago
@monoham1 try manually doing it for 10 pics with different zoom levels and orientation. please post back the amount of time it takes. You also need to orient the pics in 3d and not in 2d
nishant842842 1 year ago
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WHERE IS THE 3D, fucking tired of you fanboys calling this 3D. this is a bunch of pictures put together in a poor way. This is nothing special at all, this is literally something I would expect to find on a random free software site. Like some program to make viewing pictures a bit more easy or fun.. This is ridiculous..
GrabThatShit 10 months ago
@GrabThatShit You sir are an idiot! I stand by everything I said.
nishant842842 10 months ago
@monoham1
You're an idiot... I'm pretty sure writing the SOFTWARE that does it AUTOMATICALLY is a little more complicated.
crhayes00 1 year ago
this is the beginning of the creating of the holodecks on star trek, YES!
snowevni 2 years ago
panoramio had the idea first
premiermc 2 years ago
One of the big problems with robots at the moment is environment recognition.
I think these guys have nailed it.
osakanone 2 years ago
hey my brain can do that!
bonitonate4u 2 years ago
Wonderful! which other place on Earth is so beautiful and best fitted for virtual reality than Italy and his beautiful, richly detailed artistic elements and a 2700 years of history?.
Januacaeli 2 years ago
Total genius!
Pluberus 2 years ago
That motherfucker reminds me of how fucking awesome the human mind can be. That dude studied somewhere and learned all this shit and is now a total genius.
Icc4rus 2 years ago 30
@Icc4rus His name is Blaise Agüera y Arcas. I hate Microsoft, but love this guy.
Xe054 1 year ago
@Icc4rus lol
sbostedor 1 year ago
instead of exploring a digital version of these places i would rather explore them the analog way.
moOch443 2 years ago
Not always possible.
Freecell82 2 years ago 3
Bit strange that people are talking about photoshop, iphoto, cool iris.
Non of these products have anything to do with PhotoSynth. It's all about gathering photo's of specific beautiful places in the world, so you can explore it. In my opinion a very beautiful service.
fck2342 2 years ago
Wow, it's amazing hows technology keeps evolving.
i want to see the source code of that software
bojanglesme 2 years ago
with the music in the backgroud one cannot hear anything (there is some prob in my internet connection / laptop as well) but the back. music just makes this worse!!
treta99 2 years ago
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next gen M$ Paint :D
now seriously, what kinda of "smart" server do this software need to succesfuly copile such a big amount of data, maby NASA will be envious on this !...i can only imagine, and what about the software, that`s way M$ kept their progs. so close source, maybe i`ll take some time to make-it public......
kodred1337 2 years ago
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Wow Another cooliris rip off .such a bullshit photo manager.I can already sense screen of death coming on!
yasir25119918 2 years ago
Maybe if you tried it out you'd realize this is a well designed program and was in beta MUCH longer than cooliris and has completely different features! Quit judging a book by its cover and actually try some software out asshole.
zspitfire04 2 years ago
Fascinating! More opportunity to "explore" and experience more of the world on a deeper and richer level.
CeivaJoe 2 years ago 3
Jesus that guy is hot.
eviltreespirit 2 years ago
Microsoft Office Picture manager comes for free with Office. It is easier and nicer to use than many other photo editors. It is very fast for cropping and resizing. You can even do muliple photo's at the same time. Very nice tool. Don't use iPhoto, it kind of sucks.
davidxzebra 2 years ago
first off 'microsoft' did not create this. Blaise Agüera y Arcas created this and it was sold to Microsoft. and to aegnt09: How can you give credit to microsoft for MS paint? you think that is a good program but others suck? haha MS paint is quite possibly the worst 'art' program i have ever used. and this goes for everyone: Make an investment, buy a Mac.
kwarfield5236 2 years ago
no i'm saying ms paint is an amazing program for simple images. like if i wanted to print screen and paste it in there and crop it. or if i wanted to make just a simple square. although mac does a better job at print screening. it makes a photo on the desktop and then crop it with iphoto.
and paint shop pro is better than photoshop. i wish it would run on mac. unfortunately i have to go into bootcamp to run it.
aegnt09 2 years ago
Yeah, the mac has a great paint pro-OH WAIT A SECOND
TheBeautyIsFake 2 years ago
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i give Microsoft credit for ms paint, and visual studio, everything else they have made ether sucks, or doesn't work.
thats funny how Microsoft teamed up with ford, found on road dead. if the car doesn't fail you Microsoft will.
aegnt09 2 years ago
LOL
ms paint?
ZO6 2 years ago 3
WOW! I love it! one more thing for this hi tech junkie.
OlliMSa 2 years ago
MY BRAIN HURTS JUST WATCHING THIS.
Silverthehedgehogxx 2 years ago
reminds me of the Encarta Virtual Tour which was available like 10 years ago . Just that the new processors can do all this dynamically . Old wine in a pretty new bottle i'd say.
dementor2012 2 years ago
greetings from Bangladesh.
aminul56 2 years ago
I think it occupate a lot of sources D:
MalanguitoOfficial 2 years ago
XD they used Apple final cut studio to make this video!!!
aegnt09 2 years ago
FINALLY!!! Microsoft created something good!!!
its about time they stopped ripping ideas from apple! although they did just steel the dock!!! XD lmao
aegnt09 2 years ago
they didnt steal the dock, apple did
check out concept screens for windows 1.0
adamhowe2409 2 years ago 3
well they still stole gui
aegnt09 2 years ago
yes you can, to do this i use a different program called boujou, but it none of these programs create an actual 3D model at all. It just looks at photos and uses mathematical algorithms to look at details and then places points at those places.
To the human eye though, it "looks" like a 3D object but look closer and their just points in space.
MrElusive777 2 years ago
can you export the 3d reconstruct into a 3d editor or a aftereffects ?
would be useful for me if you could do that for artistic 3d representations and gallery show reels
jmm1233 2 years ago
Totally amazing. Microsoft brings innovation once again.
jayseepingkian 3 years ago 22
wtf... apple invented everything that Microsoft has... Microsoft just steel their ideas, this is there first real innovation!
aegnt09 2 years ago
To believe that Apple is Charlies Chocolate factory of ideas that's a little bit one sided to say.
How about this: "All major companies steal / buy ideas from other (smaller) companies"
That would be a 99% accurate statement. They usually combine ideas to make a new one, with a little twist of their own.
fck2342 2 years ago
@jayseepingkian
How is this amazing.. When I heard of photosynth I expected it to reconstruct a 3d picture made in CGI or w/e, this is just a lot of pictures ... what's so amazing? The only thing it actually does is align the pictures.. like oh this building looks like this one, ill name this one "1" and this one "2". I could without a DOUBT in my mind make this program on my own.
Ridiculous, nothing amazing at all. Barely worth calling it a program. It's just a bunch of pictures...
GrabThatShit 10 months ago
@jayseepingkian should be read, Microsoft 'buys' innovation once again.
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3djes 3 years ago
Wouldn't it be cool if it could generate a simple sky and ground backdrop so it feels more like you're in a place rather than a massive row of photos floating in black space?
Dratio 3 years ago 3
this is not new technology, only this is on a much larger scale . And with many many features, I think it needs a good CPU for it to work fast enough.
bv90andy 3 years ago
If you look carefully it lags even on that demonstration PC. And they use the most powerful core i7 processor.
filipkir 3 years ago
man, this vid is from July 2006, they didn't have i7, maybe a Core 2. but the Graphics card is more important here, I think.
bv90andy 3 years ago
CardS I think is the word, bridged too. There is no way my piece of crap machine would do that... All we need now is for the open source people to write their own version and make it better as they always do then it will be free too.
m1leswilliams 2 years ago
Another example would be, say, NASA collects several hundred still images from a space probe, or the Mars rover, etc. They can then take every one of those images and collate them into a panoramic image which you can scroll through in a near-3D image to gain different perspectives and details of the surface of Mars, even incorporating overhead aerial images. Et cetera.
sinnison23 3 years ago
The best examples of what this program is capable of are Obama's inauguration. John King of CNN had viewers send in any pictures they could take from any part of the assembly, from any kind of capture device. He then used Photosynth to create a panoramic image, which he could literally pick a point and zoom in or out for greater or less detail, pan to another point and change focus, even pan to different angles of the same point. All done with single images.
sinnison23 3 years ago
It reminds me of the movie deja vu
GanjaOnDeck 3 years ago
seems stupid
ApeWithBone 3 years ago
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Your face seems stupid.
bennyb220380 3 years ago
That is pretty cool.
Microsoft is still the main dog.
esoeso122 3 years ago
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This is what happens with a group of people with too much time get together. I'm kind of irritated by the whole virtual organic model, the social objects of living oganisms in the digital realms of social combinations. Seriously, everyone is trying to come up with some crap to get bought up by wither google microsoft. Why don't they spend more time trying to figure out how make their existing software more reliable.
grandgret 3 years ago
This is how progress is made, by inventing, and then finding a useful task for that invention, and making it better.
bv90andy 3 years ago
i would like it if it shows more of the photo beside having to click on the squares. Like google street view you can pan all over
dnave21 2 years ago
google street view is different, they take photos at 360* at the same time and the computers combines them knowing they were made from the same point at the same time, this is usefull for single photos, made by different people at the same location, it would be nice to show them all together but it would all be a mess, and in google street you can move only back and forth in other pictures which are not actually linked, this thing is able to recreate 3d environment from 2d pictures, it's sweet
bv90andy 2 years ago
Nice! When this technology gets better, gamemakers can use it to make 3D worlds, without 3D programming.
Maketsup 3 years ago
Cool Point
Philscbx 3 years ago
Wow imagine being able to go on the web and find places or thinkgs of interest and then view them in real time through streaming images...oh wait a minute...we created this over a hundred years ago and now call it video...wanna see St Peters then search it right here on you tube and voila...also many places have now produced 3d virtual tours...this product is everything thats wrong with technological developments today...no direction just random ideas allowed to become finished products...
25mmpolycarbonate 3 years ago
so cool! Can't wait til google images becomes a 3D tour
antago 3 years ago
This is pretty kewl, but think about it.. you could only do this if you had like thousands of pictures, with the same lighting and everything? like lol not kewl.
RT7 3 years ago
LOL i really find this program useless
ninetailslv100 3 years ago
Just like the internet.
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DustyMooseHamilton 3 years ago 2
I think my negativity towards this product is really just resultant of the hype surrounding its release. An article I read had made it seem like it would generate a 3-d model of the scene, not just orientate the pictures in 3-d relative to eachother, which *is* step 1 you're right, but at least combine them into something, I know I took 500 pictures, I don't wanna see all 500 at once with cloudy borders. Either way, I'll be patient! Side note, nav/geo reasearch use=good : military use=bad.
bluecrew08 3 years ago
amazing!!!!!
orabegon 3 years ago
bluecrew I think once the technology is perfected you could easily break down a video into their frames in each video and create a lot of cool services that integrate this technology from a social perspective to other unique creative ideas.
I think if cloud computing mostly but it could be used probably beyond that. I imagine having an algorithm that just does this automatically thus reducing the need for someone to crop these together.
addiktion13 3 years ago
I don't understand what everyone's so crazy about?! The interface on psynth is interpretative at best, getting your bearings is half the battle, moving around causes the photos do this stretch-warp thing in and out rather than transition. The photos not directly being viewed are placed at akward skewed perspectives with overcrowding borders. In the time it takes to capture 500 photos you could have generated the whole scene polygonaly on a computer for a much better result. Or just take a video?
bluecrew08 3 years ago
this technology is not necessarily meant solely for recollection purposes or entertainment; imagine the applications for navigational or geographical research, accurate 3-d model representation of the world, or even military use! The possibilities are endless. Besides, with technology, people typically focus too far forward, and ignore or criticize the steps needed to be taken to reach such lengths.
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99558fs42i66 3 years ago
This technology is purely amazing - "cloud network". One point in time, in the very near future, computer and information technology will be so advanced that the way data and information sharing are accessed will be revolutionized and utilized in ways like this - and not just that but almost in so many aspects of life.
Many people may hate Microsoft for different reasons (and some petty), but you have to agree that this kind of stuff is groundbreaking.
cyborgxxi 3 years ago
If this will be able to work as well as it does in the demo they show, then this would be incredible.
Imagine how much money, if developed right, this could, if nothing else, save 3D animation places. Having their models generated automatically would be pretty amazing and cheap.
tombert256 3 years ago
I don't get it, most 3D animations are of imaginary places. How are you going to get a huge collection of photographs of an imaginary place? This doesn't appear to create an actual 3D model, it just simulates the experience of an actual 3D space in 2 dimensions. There were no smooth transitions or pans, he just zoomed in and out of different views. Or am I missing something here?
antoniosoul 3 years ago
Apparently You missed the whole concept.
The photos you took of your car. It could be a Ford Probe. You over time took 27 images of specific points.
Other people with the same car each took 27 images.
Multiply 17,000 cars times 27 images each.
No 2 images are actually alike. Close, but different.
Therefore, selecting one image you took will automatically seek out images by others that let you see even more detail or angle.
How's that, pretty dam cool if you ask me.
Philscbx 3 years ago
Thanks for your explanation, but I'm still missing the point, as are a lot of other people, apparently. I checked out this video because I was told this software automatically creates 3D models, and a lot of the commenters here seem to believe that it does. I mean, why not just shut off the computer and go outside and sit in an actual Ford Probe? And maybe drive somewhere while your at it, you know, experience actual reality vs. fake reality. Cheers.
antoniosoul 3 years ago
Because you no longer have the Ford Probe after you totaled it out. If there are enough views, it is appearing to be 3D like. I think any 3D physical model was taken out of context to a point. There are 3D model creations for machining and manufacturing prototypes out of foam beads. So it is possible in a small scale.
If your told or read an actual point, then a link would clear up the fact.
Philscbx 3 years ago
Simply review the first 30 seconds of this clip.
He explains it clearly for anyone.
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bhentetrez23 3 years ago
Wow, this is an incredible idea.
cienbolas 3 years ago
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kinda lame tbh
avgnrules7 3 years ago
I think one possibly future application of this software in being able to construct 3D models by possibly blow it into a hologram or sorts. This way, people physically can be inside an space/"building" instead of just being inside a 2D "panorama".
howehowever 3 years ago
OMG squidge316 your so dumb. this program is the FGng FUTURE!....and not everyone is able to just FLY to the city you crack.
trnqlsoljah 3 years ago 4
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But why look at a city in this form, when you can actually go to the city itself? Real life is much more beautiful then what computer screens can produce.
squidge316 3 years ago
You're missing the point I think. Yes you can go there but what about all those pictures you took while you are there? You can either view them in a stale, static environment of your photo album.. or you can photosynth them into a dynamic environment where you can re-experience the place you have visited.. or show people your perspective of what you experienced..
light487 3 years ago 2
Yea, not everyone has the money to do that.
NinkaPanda 3 years ago
microsoft is the fucking best!!
lekkerverjaarfrikkie 3 years ago 4
hehe , actually no micro$oft windows is rly bad. The community is the best (compare linux to windows...)
Ogar1993 3 years ago
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This is essentially a glorified version of photoshop's panorama-making software. I don't see what's so impressive about it.
FOSHING 3 years ago
that is cause you are an idiot
lekkerverjaarfrikkie 3 years ago 10
Imagine photosynth in 5 years with live camreas and super fast comps u could watch the world in 3D in REALTIME with LIVE updates
that would be amazing!
simkinggold101 3 years ago 3
5 years? keep goin
Lal398667 3 years ago
lsn't that pretty much like watching the news?
NesKidSkeet 3 years ago
not really you would be able to watch ANYWHERE in the world in real time the news just shows the places where stuff is happening like tornadoes and tsunamis not just looking around city's you want to visit :P
simkinggold101 3 years ago
Innovative, good idea.
domharrington 3 years ago 6
this is pretty amazing, but i remmebr seeing other programs that sort of did this years ago. but not quite like this.
cdman2008 3 years ago 3
Microsoft is da (({[BOMB]}))
juice3183 3 years ago 2
waoo...Just..Wao!!
don0nami 3 years ago
Imagine all pictures ever taken by a digital camera, all posted online into a massive world network. They are all automatically acquired and combined in this way...you could google "Stockholm, Sweden", and just start clicking all around the city, zooming in on random things, constantly switching photographers in order to always see the highest resolution. Combine this with a wrap around monitor and a fast computer...and you could explore the whole city in 3D. Eventually much of the world..
hotjamz5 3 years ago 4
very cool - seems like microsoft is catching up with innovative ideas
gizmoffm 3 years ago 7
They've been. Have you seen Microsoft Surface and Microsoft Sphere?
NesKidSkeet 3 years ago
This is the future!!!
Freya06 3 years ago
Imagine linking this software to google earth!
Luderman 3 years ago 11
You know that at some point they'll be able to create 3D world by using high resolution cameras, and this software.
This software is also a great step forward in autonomous artificial intellegence. The fact that this software can comprehend three dimension from 2D sources is quite amazing.
modemmack 3 years ago 3
it´s amazing! but i don´t know what to do to see the samples in the webpage, can´t see the synths!
jaleduque02 3 years ago
You must use Windows with Firefox or Internet Explorer. Then you'll be asked to install the plugin.
bjeah 3 years ago
Looks great when all the photos are taken from the same spot on the same tripod. A mess when it's different from anybody who posts. One of these things that works great when setup by pros.
zzz565 3 years ago
this software is mindblowing.
letterstojesus 3 years ago 3
The mainstream press reports on photosynth pathetic, most describng it simply as a program that "stitches users photos into a panorama." The supposed tech reporters (for AP, etc.) are terrible
bceugene 3 years ago 2
I want: A heads up display that will take in what I am looking at (say by micro sensors on glasses or contacts) that will access all possible information in real time at my request. So If I am in some part of the world I should be able to get all wiki info, and even (perhaps) get a view of someone else who might be standing near by (or who has taken a photo). This will mean I could have access to real-time historical information at certain locations. like a memory!
Gimme!
homerthompsonman 3 years ago
i was wondering when someone would make something like this. now i'm wondering when someone will link this technology with google earth, then i'll wonder about how it will be implimented into a web based satellite orientated gps system.
naryanr 3 years ago 3
Great software! These developers are very talented. I prefer the function where you can fly around the buildings :)
osdcommunity 3 years ago 4
Headlines...Microsoft aquires Blizzard Entertainment to compete with SIMS Online. World of EarthCraft...comming soon to a Store near you!
rasmasyean 3 years ago 3
Emdee1012,
Photosynth is much more than the current panorama stiching software. It is able to recognize and relate specific items in the images and position them in 3D.
I really hope the software is released in a state that it is able to relate my pictures of the Eiffel tower to the pictures someone else took. If this is possible, one could develop a system that processes images on Panoramio and generate 3D content of it.
Greetings,
Peter Vrenken
petervrenken 3 years ago
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Wtf? Sticking images together so it shows 360 degrees is panoramic... this isn't new at all and many programs have been made that do similar things to achieve this without using photoshop.
The original description sounded like a much more advanced piece of software like a collection of images can be put together to make a new world, like sticking eiffel tower in London or something. These images have been taken specifically perfect to create a panoramic image... more random images wont work!
emdee1012 3 years ago
Some people just do not understand innovative technology when they see it, you my friend fall very deep into the depths of this category entirely filled with "Special" people.
vashelite 3 years ago 2
the program extremely new and revolutionary, so of course, isn't near perfect yet, but you still can't knock it.
one day this thing will be beastly.
xanxibar398 3 years ago 4
What if:
Microsoft joined their efforts with Google and combined PhotoSynth with Panoramio? This would really make an astonishing application.
I think the combination of the two technologies would mean the start of a whole new era in which people will start to experience the world in a whole new manner.
Geez, i really hope to visit some more wonders of the world this way... Ofcourse after being there in person :-)
What's you're opinion?
Greetings,
Peter Vrenken
petervrenken 3 years ago 2
I prefer Google Earth... And its 3d models. I'm okay with this anyway...
Chirigami 3 years ago
I am going to download the tech preview for this as soon as I upgrade my video card...
I have hundreds of photos that are begging to be put into this tech.
robertdTO 3 years ago
In truth I don't understand the negativity. The scope for extension of the technology is truly fantastic. Imagine if the technology was taken to the next level, generating 3D models from the photos and then texturing the models from the photos.
You could take it further by having outdoors seamlessly combine with indoors and you could explore city streets, shopping centres, famous landmarks, even examine rare things the public aren't allowed near from up close.
And the gaming potential...
FurinaD 3 years ago
amen to that
derewigestudent 3 years ago
The only problem is that the recognition part will get more difficult the more pictures it has to examine. So ideally it would need a more specific database structure (based on names of taken pictures for example).
conradhw 3 years ago
Great, til the ass at the end trys to put the software into some kind of grandoise, virtual reality context, lets be honest, were just going to find a way to use it for porn..
alancrehan 3 years ago
Great, til the ass at the end trys to put the software into some kind of grandoise, virtual reality context, lets be honest, were just going to find a way to use it for porn..
alancrehan 3 years ago
Mind-blowing!
MauriceFlower 3 years ago
lol good one!
KrazieAl 3 years ago
This is amazing.
epohnopulse 3 years ago
Every time Microsoft does something cool nowadays, there's always people that just say "Apple's better." So what? Just respect what Microsoft is doing to innovate technology, they're not just going to stand back and let Apple control the market.
ArmyOfPie 3 years ago 2
Last I checked Apple controlled very little of the market. Mp3 players and now the iphone is popular but hitting serious speed bumps in performance at a large scale. Have their personal computers even hit 5% marketshare yet?
archimago42 3 years ago
It is actually 6% now :)
..... lol
NinkaPanda 3 years ago
easy but good :)
ozgenc 4 years ago 2
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While the idea of "photosynth" as a means of constructing a virtual model of an object is somewhat exciting, it's also very close-minded. Just as there are endless amounts of photographs being taken everyday, there are also endless photographic aesthetics. If the program functions as this video depicts, only photographs of a modernist aesthetic will be incorporated into the model: that is, photographs that are sharp, "well-composed," etc.
johnnychunders 4 years ago
I think that's the point. It gives the viewer the ability to explore an environment as it exists. By including poorly composed photograph, as beautiful as they may be, you would detract from the realism and overall usefulness of the tool.
frauspi 4 years ago 6
neither Ulead nor Adob Lightroom does this. Ulead 360 creates panoramas from still photographs taken from a single point in space, whereas this software will actually pinpoint a camera's placement in 3d space. Furthermore, this software seems to be a great browsing and exploratory tool, whereas Ulead 360 does not, and Adobe Lightroom does to a lesser degree.
MrArmadillo 4 years ago 5
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adobe lightroom
MrArmadillo 4 years ago
people are way to pre-ocupied about who created or owns the program. at the end of the day this will be a fantastic program that stands a good chance of changing the way people take photos in the future.
imagion not having to explain a place to sombody, you could simply take a few photos from difrent angles and show them in 3D instead.
I think its amazing!
richie2kk3 4 years ago 6
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The problem is though, that Microsoft will patent this, and have a monopoly in this market. In addition, they will obviously make it compatible with their Operating System only, so it will be a vendor lock-in for anyone willing to use this program. In addition, by owning the software, they can jack up prices and just make more money out of it. If Microsoft were to, on the other hand, release this project under an open source license, or make it freely available on all platforms, I wouldn't mind
carfreak92 4 years ago
To be honest, that sounds more like Apple than MS.
Apple files a lot of ridiculous patents that anyone could come up with. Apple is more locked-in than Microsoft (OSX to Mac, iPod to iTunes, No 3rd party apps. for iPhone, etc.).
Stop hating.
interactgirl 4 years ago 2
I never said Apple was better...
It'd probably be worse with them.
carfreak92 4 years ago
I didn't say you were an Apple lover. I'm just saying that what you describe sounds more like Apple instead of Microsoft.
I just didn't think it was valid to point out MS would do that, when the chances with Apple was higher. That's all. Sorry.
interactgirl 4 years ago 4
this is just microsoft copying other companies ideas again....this is the same as Apple Aperutre and Adobe Lightroom, except that both of those programs can also edit photos as well as do exactly what this video shows in terms of detail viewing of multiple images....Microsoft = lame and years behind AGAIN.
crobs808 4 years ago
Ulead 360º does this too, though I am not sure whether Ulead or Apple were first. Regardless, it's Microsoft stealing ideas (or desperately buying the product and stamping its logo but not before messing up the source code to add some bugs so that new versions will be a must).
TheDarkNomad 4 years ago
ok buddy show me those programs do that without taging the photo and also go on the internet and get more photos.... oh yea the people talking about MS buying this guess what cover flow was bought by apple god noob ass fanboys
viro101 4 years ago 4
First learn to use punctuation so that others can actually read what you're writing. What the hell did you mean with "show me those programs do that without taging the photo and also go on the internet and get more photos" !? Damn illiterate that likes to have a last word...
TheDarkNomad 3 years ago
wow, the new name people microsoft people hired are a whole lot better than the othes before, imagine
3-D live picture 2.0 hee hee
wakyman1995 4 years ago