Photosynth Demo

A couple of days ago Microsoft labs released a demo of their new Photosynth software on the web. Photosynth allows the aggregation of social picture networks (a la Flickr) into a completed image in addition to allowing a level of depth to image browsing previously unavailable. There is also a very impressive video of the demo available.

Comments

"More like ... BOREophyll!"

[Otter]

That is such a perfect name. I can't believe no one has thought of it before.

Interesting -- but viable?

[Jugalator]

Will this turn into a viable service (web service or not) anytime soon?

I read this has enormous space requirements *and* computations associated with it.

Sure, it's amazing once all image data has been calculated and matched against each other, but I have a hard time seeing this being available for end users soon, unless they just happen to be sitting on a tasty... Beowulf cluster? :-)

Re:Did the cat push your button?

[Macthorpe]

This coming from a guy widely renowned for posting the same comment over and over to whore karma.

People in glass houses shouldn't take up Ultimate Frisbee.

Here's where Cameron goes Berzerk.

[horati0]

FTV:

"...what I'm going to show you...is some new technology that we brought to Microsoft as part of an acquisition..."

Fuck Microsoft. Fuck them and their can't-beat-em-then-buy-em business model. Fuck their complete lack of innovation, and fuck the douchebags who sell out to them. This Gary Oldman-looking motherfucker just got assimilated and all he can say is thank you. Newsflash, Commissioner Gordon: You know all the blood, sweat, and tears that you personally put into this project? All the birthdays you missed and the bridges you burned and the times you could have been getting laid? Microsoft gets to call it their own now. You're a footnote, the answer to a trivia question now, like Seattle Computer Products or Spyglass, Inc.

Unethical business practices? Monopoly? Clueless donkeys who lap this shit up year after year? It doesn't matter. The fact is that Microsoft has sufficiently integrated itself into any and all aspects of technology that nothing-- not Google, not Linux, not whatever the fuck the bloggers can come up with-- will make it go away.

Seriously, it's too late to do anything about it. Accept it as a fact of life or go build a shack in the mountains of Montana.

Re:Does anyone have an actual video of the demo?

[John Nowak]

You miserable cunt.

Re:Waste of time, bandwith

[John Nowak]

You really are a miserable cunt! Reevaluate how you perceive the world.