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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. they stole it from blade runner and csi by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Redundant

    that ability to zoom into a picture with far better clarity than the picture offers. deep zooming would seem to be a wrapper for high res pictures

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  2. Re:Youtube video of similar demo by prockcore · · Score: 0, Redundant

    what do you mean no silverlight required? That is silverlight. That video is from microsoft's conference.