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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. Silverlight is microsoft's latest failure by JimboFBX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Silverlight is probably the first and only plugin that insists it isn't installed even when it is. Did it for MLB.com. MLB.com still thinks I don't have it. Did it for that website. I get this:


    Before installing this version of Silverlight, please close all browser windows and uninstall all previously installed versions of Silverlight.
    installed version 2.0.30523.6
    requested version 2.0.30226


    Does it for both I.E. and firefox. Clicking on the uninstall link gives VIDEOS instead of an actual uninstaller, not that uninstalling ever fixed my problem in the past.