Photosynth – WTF!
Posted by vijayram on June 12, 2007
Be blown away – HERE
Download the plugin (5 Meg +) . http://labs.live.com/photosynth/
What blew my mind was the fact that I watched the movie “Deja Vu” the day before where the digital sureveillance used had data-streams of realtime feed which allowed them to present any setting at any angle. You are talking of billions of bytes of data for imaging at realtime. I thought it was rubbish.
But Photosynth took this a little closer. It can:
* Walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any angle.
* Seamlessly zoom in or out of a photo whether it’s megapixels or gigapixels in size.
* See where pictures were taken in relation to one another.
* Find similar photos to the one you’re currently viewing.
* Send a collection – or a particular view of one – to a friend.
Pushing the boundaries 
Visual Artist said
Of course you can see photos from any angle – they’re simple 2D elements 😛 The scenes are precompiled based on tags added by humans. – not exactly mind blowing IMO.
vijayram said
Well look at it this way, you are dealing with pictures, which zoom in and out seamlessly, whether its a 1 megapixel or 1 gigapixel. There is no sluggishness!! Now think what it could do for maps.
mrsteel said
this thing is perfect, much more interesting looking at pictures then linear gallery
this video is great
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129