Comments on: Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:17:40 +0000

Photosynth utilises a technology called ‘Seadragon’ which means that the resources needed to work with the images is dependent only on the number of pixels on screen i.e. your monitor’s resolution.

In effect the resolution and number of images being displayed has no effect on the resources used: gigapixel and even terapixel pictures can be viewed as smoothly as very small images.

By: Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth screencast at istartedsomething

Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth screencast at istartedsomething — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:55:51 +0000

[...] For those do remember, Photosynth is a project by Microsoft Live Labs, a research team under the Windows Live brand who are experimenting with new ways to visualize data. [...]

By: tom

tom — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:20:53 +0000

Is it just me or does the Photosynth logo look oh so familiar to the BP logo…

It’s interesting to see how many “exciting” new technologies MS is showcaseing these days. It’s be more interesting to see them putting any of these technologies into products that actually work.

How many times have they delayed Vista? Maybe MS management should get it’s engineers to focus on getting products to market rather than playing around with toys.

Given the number of technologies MS seems to be dabbling in these days I am wondering if their management is aimlessly pocking about trying to find a new cash cow now that the Windows/ Office combo is under threat by Google and Yahoo.

Don’t get me wrong. I love gadgets but at the end of the day I need to sell something to my customers ideally build with tools on platforms that actually work.

So please please M$ take those billions of $$$ you are supposedly spending on R&D and building something which actually works for a change.

By: Mat

Mat — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:17:19 +0000

Wow, pretty impressive!

Would make an interesting music video.

Thanks for the links Long

By: Microsoft Photosynth prototype | KennethVerburg.nl - Information Engineer in het Wild

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:43:40 +0000

[...] De filmpjes die je hier kunt bekijken laten heel goed zien wat de werking is van deze “Photosynth” techniek. Lijkt me een killer-applicatie om met Flickr te gebruiken [...]

By: CG

CG — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:37:11 +0000

Well, it’s really impressive. It seems that the engine uses the same alg that used in “panorama map” plugin for MS Expression, with the cached results… nothing really innovative, but the implementation (as in demo) is really something.

The one bad thing, as for many of the ne MS’ technologies: how much system resources does it cost?…

CGVictor.