Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Photosynth demo

[alexhays]

this is exactly what the guy who designed the apple desktop said is going to happen before he passed away.

[thadopeman]

m$ just bought the tech from the developers

big fucking deal, no need to get a raging boner for m$ you tools

[Gaiaweapon]

I hate to admit it, but in the past apple were always the most impressive. But MS are really impressing me these days.

MS Surface is also astonishing!

PS, Anyone who knows anything about computers know that apple's are complete rubbish. Even the Iphone is  obsolete, check out some of the SE phones in Japan that are far superior to the Iphone.

[DavidRGilson]

This is awe inspiring technology. Although I am sad because it is in the hands of Microsoft, which means it will never reach its ultimate potential because Microsoft does things for the good of its share holders, not for the good of society. On the other hand, if the opened up the technology so there's no lawyers and no fees involved, then it would be stellar!

[SystelCyrus]

@DavidRGilson Nawww, you'd only have to worry about that if Apple or Google owned it.

[NewestNuma]

what posed a question to me was lighting like day and nightime. or just a time of day as it wuld make a complete diference as to the picture seen. so how would the software know. As all that was shown in the demo here was daytime pictures...???

[muscularteeth]

absolutly fantastic.

the crowd should be cheering - this is truly revolutionary software...

[MightyRathalos]

omg that is crasy

this is a new chapter in life^^

[santaisthepopo]

nice

[4transform]

wow. that is cool. First thing from MS that's worth looking at in how long? Few years.... does that put them back on the map? More like the sound of splashing from a drowning man... thought he went down for the last time.. ok, guess he didn't.

[blaisejones]

thats simply amazing.  it lets me have faith in microsoft again.

[bazioto]

Only this... Idiotic... Stupid... work of sick minds...

[martinmine]

Ewerybody! Look here! labs.live. com/photosynth

[itunesmc]

wow i am macuser and i am totally impressed :o

[tommsowa]

for once, admit it, Apple sucks

[ferradnell]

great... combined with google earth... and we will not need touristic agency at all :D

[daneeehhhh]

theres an OLPC at the left

[corpser6666]

so fucking cool, i hope they add a timefunction

[salesdatingguy]

This video is a great example of the concept of Attraction Marketing, as I describe in my video. Click on my name to check it out.

[Cherryluv77]

Incredible and just completly amazing!!

But...Apple's gunna beat this preview though, haha.

[adywangyue365]

haha i love the BMW 7 Hydrogen though!

[damdamdeo26]

That s just amazing!!!!! I m a 3D guy and that s absolutly great!!!!

[davidsmith633]

And for my next trick, I'll disappear up my own arse. What's the point of all this?

[Katfrench]

Looks exciting. Of course Microsoft will run it into the ground. They never do anything original!

[Xbizkitl]

I hate Apple fanboys. So you think Apple doesn't make acquisitions either, that all their proprietary software is made in house? Maybe it does, looking at the PoS that is "Safari for Windows".

[alKhowarizmi]

I don't know whether or not this has been brought up already, but in regards to the semantic markers on the images:

What happens if one or more people start tagging images with incorrect or biased information? If the "mistake" is widespread enough, will it automatically be propagated by the network as solid, communal fact? That's extremely unacceptable...

[lutherCymru]

I have a lot of respect for the Microsoft research labs - simply because some of the most seminal names in computer graphics research (Jim Blinn, Hugues Hoppe, John Snydee amongst others) are now employed by them, hopefully earning good money doing amazing blue sky stuff.

[Elaina43]

simply<b> amazing!</b>  TFP!

[ragnamat]

AWESOME

[EchoGroupProductions]

This is amazing, but why are people bringing up Apple? This has nothing to do with Apple. Apple and Microsoft and coexist so please stfu

[comradegarrett]

That picture ad is of a BMW, but it says "The Fastest Car in the History of Aston Martin".

[Joeey]

too bad the MS criminal monopoly is attached to these thinkers

[sexynaijababe]

Apple will be ahead with Core Animation coming October.

This looks good, but the problem with MS stuffs is that they are never used in the right way, or you need super fast hardwares.

[fabricecanel]

Really? Maybe on low cost PC... compare apples with apples :)

Try by yourself: URL: labs live com

[ArtOfPhire]

Blow me, Microsoft has been kicking Apple's ass since it was created.

[samedakira]

ok, but this is simply just amazing...:D

[gdiogenes]

Come on, this looks great! I love apple products, but there's no reason not to acknowledge Microsoft didi a great job... I'd love to see this integrated with google street maps :)

[JohanKH]

But will it be so fast? I wonder how they can read the parts they need from each file so quickly thought, because they can't hold all those images in RAM can they? Depends on what machine it's running at I guess.

[doodleman99]

errrr.... looked at "core animation" and from what i can tell; well done apple have made a fancy 'adobe flash' application. did you actually watch the clip?? it is completely different to core animation??? hello, Mc Fly?!?!?!

[vizdotnu]

How are the viewpoints added? IE does it completely calculate where in space the photo was taken, or are those points added by hand? Also it looks like for the Notre Dame at least, it is using some 3d mesh data, yes?

[superduperrune]

That's right, everything is matched up automatically using some nifty technology called SIFT. Do a google on SIFT 3D Reconstruction, and you get a couple of pages with info.

[mason9000]

It calculates from where in space the photo was taken by comparing it with the other photos!

[CubeKnight]

Actually, I think the software *generates* the 3D mesh, as well as calculating the position of each view point automatically.

Pretty amazing, IMO.

[slcphoto]

Please, please remember people that this is a Microsoft ACQUISITION, not an innovation of theirs... Microsoft could buy Apple, but it wouldn't make them innovate like Apple.

[Gippippolo82]

ahahahah sfigato! ma che accanito che sei! shit

[empath69]

wait...didn't Micro$oft BUY Apple already? ^_^

But I wonder about the speed and performance - what kind of hardware is this guy using for the demo?

[timjohns]

At least MS buys companies and their ideas.

Not like Apple who just magically "appear" other peoples ideas into their products...

[GMeditation]

They acquired Seadragon, the 3d spatial technology was developed by students at UW and the research department of Microsoft.

[JohanKH]

Yeah, no transparent menu bars or buy movie ticket widgets from Microsoft! :D

[Kewlausgirl]

Ew if you saw Apple is innovated again, I might throw up on my PC. Yeah I have a pc. Why? Coz Apple is one big international whore... it is evil and wants to consume everything.

Well.. that and the PC is so much easier! lol!!

[Xpat1990]

Demo is available on M$ live lab

site, runs in a browser on an ancient ThinkPad just fine.

[dano9181]

Could you imagine this combined with Google Earth??? Holy crap

[1000Monkeys]

That would be awesome. Shame it'll never happen.

[mason9000]

Indeed! And could you imagine it with live streaming video instead of stills? Hello 3D Mirror World.

[BjornMcSwiggins]

That's not real, he did it on a computer.

[propagandakompanie]

Epic!

[Starfuchs]

It's the TED Talk: Photosynth demo

[R4ndomCrap]

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[ragedriven]

this is dumb, no ones pc will run this! it does nothing! most of these comments are from microsoft employees most likely, shameful...

microsoft should come up with something to lessen the time before google puts them out of business!

[ArtOfPhire]

People there were from different companies.

Not all of them are from Microsoft.

And who says google is gonna run MS out of business? When were they going against each other?

[HockeyInJune]

Microsoft Pwns You :P

[benjymous]

There's a live demo of this you can play with now - very impressive:

YouTube won't let me post the URL, but google for PhotoSynth and it's the first hit

[phidatatube]

wow this is amazing the only limits are the number of pixels on your screen

[eiapoce]

Not a joke. In several passages this guy sounds like "microsoft's SAM" speech engine.

[researcherkid]

I can't imagine computers 10 years from now with all these discoveries.

[garnster]

WOW. imagine all the digitals pictures that everyone take (trillions of them i imagine) connected together in a digital "GAIA"! Each individual pictures can be crappy but taken in the context of it become part of something truly awesome.

I can't believe that MS got smart enough to buy this tech. Google should have bought it. Wouldn't matter what price. It would have been worth it.

[fluffyfluffyfluffy]

ragedriven said: "seems like a waste of time cause it serves no real purpose."

"no real purpose" ... that's one of the most unimaginative statements I've heard in years.

[fluffyfluffyfluffy]

ragedriven said: "nobodies pc will run it that smoothly"

I'm looking at a PC right there, in the video, and it is running it PRECISELY "that smoothly".

I guess you'll say now that these software guys went & built custom graphics cards, chipsets, etc, etc ... that none of this is "street". Maybe YOUR computer sucks, but that doesn't mean others can't run it.

Besides: This isn't done with *horsepower*, rather it is the new method of scaling & image manipulation which these guys have invented.

[JavaKinetic]

Its not difficult to imagine how this will change the way in which people navigate through the internet. Before long people will start rendering the areas in which they live... and then have pictures link in with PhotoSynth. If I was to build something with this application... I would create a SecondLife type environment. Visit places in the world... with friends... wherever you are.

[aries185]

What raw materials does this tech require? ... processors, memory, graphics ships, bandwidth? Whatever it is, buy options now!

[accordvtak]

it is recommended 1GB of memory and 256 MB of memory is the bare minimum. i would think having a dual processor is probably enough having an up-to-date computer is probably wat is good enough for this program to work at a sufficient pace

[assassin437]

Hehehe, 'graphics ships' :)

[somegeek]

Fvcking brilliant...

[pertsix]

wonder if my porn... OMG 3D.

[condens]

Oh yeah! :D

[nationalparksign]

may god have mercy on us all

[peterfable]

Oh my f***ing god. And I thought only Apple could wow you with an interface.

[yourmomistaken]

Apple? Nah, I'd rather access Photosynth using this: xC5uEe5OzNQ (hint: plug this into the end of the ?v=)

[avanderveen]

This is truly AMAZING! If Microsoft were to continue to produce software like this for 5 years, they could put themselves back into their previous place of domination. This is a perfect example of what Microsoft could/should/and probably will be.

THIS IS AMAZING! TRULY BRILLIANT! Not just the software, but the idea of harnessing Web 2.0 and the idea of 3d spacial environments from 2d images. AMAZING! I can't say that enough, AMAZING!

[chongma]

calm down love. microsoft have been buying other peoples great ideas for years...and turning them into shit.

[Tyklfe]

Microsoft Bought this - they didn't build it.

[JohanKH]

Cool technology. Does it tag them together automatically or does it rely on some help from the people who adds the photos?

[daneeehhhh]

is this shit real?

lol this is a big one froom m$, didnt expected it

[nickdotvr]

I saw this a long time ago - it was cool then and it hasn't lost any coolness points over time, I'd so love to mess with that sometime soon.

[snowblind57]

holy shit

[digitalanomaly]

Oh my. Welcome to the future of data.

[upto0013]

This is gay, I did this like a year ago with my VCR.

[augustindira]

whoa

[PMBjornerud]

When they get around to doing this with faces, I'm worried about privacy.

[gratajik]

Wow. Amazing!

[perfectionbox]

light of other days

[tamirdiab]

that is AMAZING

[instant0]

WTF is up with the ADvertisement!

[OuterRem]

As expected, the Tech industry delivers again. I'm worried about the amount of processing it would take when 'diving' into the image in Seadragon though. According to MS Labs, it only process pixels on the screen, but when you zoom, aren't you multiplying that number?

[BurningFeetMan]

Meh, explorer and Google Picasa work fine for all of my photo needs. No sale.

[wpr42]

Mmmmm . . .  porn . . .

[rydemods]

exellent.. cant wait to try that out

[schneo]

Looks very impressive. I bet Philip K. Dick would have like this.

[profox111]

It used to work on Linux.. Then Microsoft bought it and removed linux support :(

[Frap357]

Interesting video. But I don't think it would be this good in a real-world environment.

That must be some very powerful hardware, with terabytes of pictures.

[Shiruken]

anyone know the name of the song at the end?

[sam991a]

"I never felt that i'd end up working at Microsoft and it's very gratifying *laughs* to get this kind of reception here."

Oh touché.

[Hydroculator]

Amazing!

[anarchysoft]

Simply amazing. I wonder how automated the linking of images was. Programs like Canoma and QTVR content tools allowed similar work (albiet more limited) productions, but it was very manually intensive.

[Dinokun]

Holy snickerdoodles thats freakin' insane!

[jonjonsonjr]

wow... wow...

[drapeau06]

Virtual shades, anyone?

[drewmutt]

Apparently, metaverse is a word. I wikipedia'ed it.

[fixyourthinking]

wow

[TheSmokingNug]

no pr0n demo of the tech?

[oneguycoding]

oh man, years of microsoft bashing just went down the drain

[ragedriven]

nobodies pc will run it that smoothly, seems like a waste of time cause it serves no real purpose.

maybe /. could come up with more interesting crap to entertain me when i'm slackin' off?

[dgodiex]

your crappy computer can, that's the center of this porject, based on seadragon technology. I f you don't believe me check it:

labs.live(dot)com(slash)photos­ynth(slash)view(dot)html?colle­ction=sanmarco(slash)index1(do­t)sxs

[dgodiex]

just google: photosynth tech preview. and you and your crappy PC will be amazed.

cheers!

[a35mmlife]

*rubs eyes*

i just lost my lunch. thats just nuts.

[mvm5mvm5]

holy heffer indeed

[Shadowrunner99]

cool video besides the last 2 minutes

[Lightweightluke]

Yeah true. The feature finishes at 7:38 then there is some car advert.

[popkirby]

bbv reporting

[themexicanvan]

that's just insane...

[shorterchild]

Wow. Just... wow. It's just so... wow.

[cowyow]

holy cow

[CafeAlpha]

You beat me to it, except that I was going express it as "Holy fucking shit!"