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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. typical old-school microsoft by drDugan · · Score: 0, Troll

    "The Silverlight plugin does not work on pre-Intel Macs. Sorry."

    embrace, extend, extinguish.

  2. "New" technology... by TheDawgLives · · Score: 0, Troll

    So, wait... Is this some new technology, or just the ajax from google earth ported to silverlite? This is just another in a long line of ripoffs that M$ has pulled.

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    -TheDawgLives suckitdown
  3. Re:Unfortunately? by Tweenk · · Score: 0, Troll

    Silverlight is an Internet Explorer plugin. Fixed that for you.
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    Those who would give up liberty to obtain working drivers, deserve neither liberty nor working drivers.
  4. Re:Deep Ripoff by jdb2 · · Score: 0, Troll

    How the hell is this a Troll?