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Microsoft's Augmented Reality, Video Photosynth

Posted by timothy on from the what-are-you-looking-at-punk dept.

Al writes "Microsoft demonstrated new augmented-reality software for cell-phones at the 2009 TechFest conference, which was held this week in Redmond. Instead of using GPS or WiFi triangulation, the prototype system relies entirely on scene-recognition to identify its position and add virtual objects to a video picture of the real world. TechFest is a showcase for lots of projects at Microsoft's various research labs. Other technologies on show included Photosynth for video, an image-tracking system for handwriting, a way of refining image searches using colors, and a 3-D version of Microsoft Surface."

5 of 97 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Microsoft business strategy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    cool. What's the website number?

  2. 2nd post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    being real

  3. probably like 9th or 10th post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it's all mine and you can't have any.

  4. Re:Microsoft business strategy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    127.0.0.1

    Speaking of old people, Biden was right about that since he probably dosen't use the internet at home but instead learns about it through NSA briefings involving I.P. addresses(which are numbers) and whatnot.

    So in that case it's the public, and not Biden, who are fucking clueless idiots.

  5. Re:Microsoft business strategy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hey, maybe you can also explain why increasing the budget deficit is actually decreasing it? Or how "same shit, different skin color" is change? Or how spreading fears of a great depression is hope?