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Microsoft Demos "Deep Zoom" Technology

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the more-interested-in-the-image-capture-and-storage dept.

Barence writes "Yesterday, during a presentation for this year's Imagine Cup, Microsoft's Mark Taylor demonstrated the company's Deep Zoom technology to appreciative gasps of admiration from the computing students present. It's pretty impressive stuff, and you can try 'deep zooming' for yourself at the Hard Rock Memorabilia Site." Unfortunately the demo requires the Silverlight plugin and the story is pretty thin on technical details. I would be interested to see how they captured the image data to that level without massive pixelation.

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  1. Installing Silverlight by jbeaupre · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Makes me think of drug pushing: the first sample is free. Nancy Reagan, don't fail me now!

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    1. Re:Installing Silverlight by Ucklak · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Silverlight makes as much sense to install as Sibelus.
      Worthless POS of software.

      I even wasted an afternoon with Sibelus to install it and the websites that require it other than the first one I went to still say I need to install it.

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  2. Do you even know what vaporware means? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "It's all the same as all MS: vaporware."

    Nice troll, but your stupidity betrayed you. Next time, learn the meaning of the word you use, you won't look like a fucking idiot that way.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware

    "Vaporware is a software or hardware product which is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge, either with or without a protracted development cycle."

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vaporware

    "a computer-related product that has been widely advertised but has not and may never become available"

    http://silverlight.net/

    Holy shit!!! That's the link to go to to download the software. Guess it isn't vaporware is it?

    Don't cry Mr. Sensitive, it's your fault you're an ignorant asshat, not mine.

  3. Deep Zoom? by Theoboley · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    maybe now the trolls can find their rice sized Wieners...

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  4. Re:Imagine Cup by Wo1ke · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, I mean it's so *simple*! Seriously, why didn't anyone do this for the past 20-some years during which we've had digital photos? Oh wait, maybe it's *not* quite that simple.