Amazing sh!t.

Looks amazing.
But will this allways be Windows only or will the finished product work for other users as well?

I know Microsoft is not known to release their products on Linux/OSX :) But since this is a new type of software a guy can hope.

Suddenly I got it.

It was in front of my eyes all along, but it never connected!
Add SeaDragon to Surface and suddenly you have a revolution unfolding in front of your eyes.

Man! I can't wait!
This is the biggest thing since Xerox came up with the mouse !

A lucid, compelling demo. Give us a shout when you want to test deploy this with some real ads in some real digital magazines!

There are a couple of recent (June 10) blog entries on this at exacteditions blog

Will this eventually be a consumer technology? In other words should I start taking many snaps of places I see now, in anticipation of being able to make montages of this type?

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I came across this vid by chance, and just... bloody hell. Absolutely brilliant. For once someone says they have something that will revolutionize how we look at things, and show that it's 110% capable of doing just that. In my young career in marketing and web design, I can not wait for Photosynth to hit mainstream.

Bravo. True innovation.

A brilliant demo. I cannot remember when I've got this excited by a new app. This looks to be the next killer app. And well done to Blaise Aguera y Arcas for such a compelling demonstration. It's good to know there are visionaries still working in the field.

Sorry I meant to add- Blaise if you are ever in Ireland I would like to buy you a beer.

Beautiful stuff!
I wonder if there is a way to suggest a new location to demonstrate photosynth on? Would be a cool people pleaser. My first suggestion: try it out on a large set of satellite imagery of the Earth and see how that turns out!

Thanks for projects such as these that restore our faith in the internet revolution. One can think of a million uses for this software; in architectural restoration, in mapping of cities, in publishing, etc.
But personally I can hardly wait to use it for art projects, do you have a timeline for at least a beta release?

Absolutely mindblowing. Good luck!

I think this software will change how people explore and document places and sites. What I really like about it is that one can not only display small sites but huge places - making it perfect for everyones needs.

I just blogged to the readers of the ChemSpider blog about this work. I am not easy to impress...this grabbed me.

So, I got to thinking...if a camera had a GPS then every image could be written to disk with the coordinates from the GPS...they would likely be absolute in terms of where the person was standing when the photo was taken...direction etc. So, you would have the image, the time the photo was taken, the GPS coordinates and the direction the photo was taken (based on the GPS sensor). Is this how you are knitting images together..is GPS used at all. If not, wouldn't it be ideal for knitting together your montages? You would be able to take photos and based on dates be able to age the montage...imagine a picture of a mountainside and have the leaves turn, fall and regrow etc. In terms of knitting the images together it just seems right...

I thought this was an awesome demonstration. Is there an estimated date of public release? I want to play with my own photos NOW! (stamps spoiled foot) Seriously though, great work, and I would like to know if it's going to be months or years or what until we can use it.

Tremendous & awesome! x 2

Right after I've seen the presentation, I've downloaded the Firefox (!!!!) plugin and gave it a try - not only it worked SMOOTH - it totally rocked!!

Tremendous & awesome! x 2

Blaise Aguera y Arcas or any other team member - if you ever consider visiting Ukraine - I promise you, I'll show you what's "noted Ukrainian hospitality" is!

Tonnes & tonnes of respect & admiration for your achievement!

Keep it up!!

a microsoft demonstration done using firefox?

nothing more needs to be said.

it made me happy anyway.

What is the current plan for release/availability/distribution of SeaDragon? Will it only be available online with a Photosynth frontend or will it eventually be downloadable?

Any any details surrounding this would be helpful.
Thanks.

WOW! Hats off you to folks! Truly amazing!

It appears that the way images are manipulated in Photosynth blurs the boundary between the image types of "bitmap" and "vector" so much so that it should have its own name - "vectmap" anyone?

I think this 'vectmapping' is way beyond cool, its FROZEN! :D

(When this stuff is combined with Facebook who knows what will happen!)

Stephen Hawkins in Venice? That´s awesome. Take a look at the last pic at: http://ashility.de/578/fotos/photosynth-wir-sind-begeistert/

I love Photosynth

This is simply amazing, imagine this applied to say for example : environment artists !! IM SALIVATING . the tech demo = WIN

Truly brilliant. I cannot wait until this kind of technology is within my reach.

Hi,
My name is Adnan and i am from Pakistan. Well i am currently studying at Dalian Medical University, dalian city , P.R China. Well this university had a huge architrecture consists of 72 buildings and stuff. Its on the sea shore. And i have immense picture data in high resolution for the whole campus. I think i would love if you bring that impressive and mindblowing experiance to this Microsoft Photosynth. I am really impressed by the work of the Team , and the researchers at University of Washinton.
If you could say i can load all images for you guyz at Microsoft.

Best Regards
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Just watched the talk on TED and downloaded the demo. The work is an inspiration.

I recently read "Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson - a fantastic journey through the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. One of the books many powerful images is how awestruck the attendees were - to enter the grounds and see "The White City" for the first time.

It got me thinking what an interesting subject the fair would make for a photosynth collection. To add life and multi-dimensionality to a place and an experience that no longer exists physically but that had such a powerful impact on those that were there. Also the opportunities for interesting tagging to images of an event that literally changed the course of technological history seem endless.

Maybe I’m just drawn to the symmetry of using such a new image technology to manipulate these beautiful old images, many created by the new “Eastman Co. No. 4 Kodak” camera.

Not sure if there are enough multi angle images to work with…but see http://www.archive.org/details/glimpsesofworlds00lair for a nice start.

I am impressed. I’m sure you’re aware that you have entered into the domain of the geospatial community and have designed an application that has the potential to revolutionize the utility of ubiquitous raster data. The point cloud that is generated by the image analysis has many possibilities should it be applied to geographic data and systems. I would imagine that a seed point would have to be originated by the application in which the other pixels are related to by which their position is appropriately placed in space in a cascading manner. Think of the possibilities should that point of origin be given a three dimensional cartographic value; an organic digital scale model of the earth might ensue. What a wonderful algorithm, it seems you’ve unleashed the power of leveraging the correlation of the pixels radiometric values in a spatial context. While the application gracefully relates images to each other, imagine if you relate them to the physical world. I encourage you to share your accomplishment with the geospatial community. Well done.

What is the current plan for release/availability/distribution of SeaDragon? Will it only be available online with a Photosynth frontend or will it eventually be downloadable?

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Technologies are now moving very fast its becoming very difficult to keep up with them But Nice

I've bugged the Microsoft Scripting Guys to make a feed for their great daily Q&A. "Coming soon" was the most I ever heard (and over a year ago)…

Well said True "amazing ways these technologies will change the way you interact with your images in the future"

I'm curious what these technologies will bring in the future. What could we invent from now one?

It’s very good article. Great site with very good look and perfect information. I like it too.

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This software will revolutionize how people explore & document places and sites.

Thank you.

Nice article and nice site design. Thanks!

This is great! One question: Is there any way around the authentication issue? I have a portal which requires a login/password. Am I out of luck? --thanks

This technology is amazing. Thanks.

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This is a cool video. I am amazed that how technology can change our way of living. Great work.

This is a big think.

Best Regards

Cool stuff. Amazing way these technologies will change the way for oss!

Regards.

Great stuff, I really enjoyed it. These technology will help out a lot, just wait and see.

One more question: Is there any way around the authentication issue? I have been looking around and cannot figure this out.

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these technologies will evolve in the months and years ahead

Thanks for the video. It's interesting to see the changes that are going to happen in this industry.

I think this technology can revolutionize photography as we know it.

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This is a real breakthrough in my opinion and most deserving of attention that will stimulate research and innovation for years to come.

I know this technology will change the future somehow

Amazing video, I saw it once before on a channel at this free internet tv site. Much appreciated.

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Nice. Im glad Microsoft is introducing new technologies again to give Google a tougher time.

Very impressed w/the software, especially the Firefox plugin

The Seadragon looks really cool.

Yes, the Seadragon will be very popular in the next few months.

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Thank you for sharing this great article. I love reading interesting stuff like this.

Thanks for this.

I wonder if these technologies can be applied to other areas like military helicopter maps, and other military areas.

Super cool technologies!

It never fails to stagger me the depth of MS (and the other big tech firms) lockers of neat stuff!

This convention is absolutely priceless. The next set will be even better.

I DUGG this article. I cannot wait to apply this technology to my future projects.

Yes, the Seadragon will definitely be very popular in the next few months and so.

For a photoshop expert like me this technology can be really revolutionary. Thank for the info
Gianni

This product will be amazing if it becomes generally available. Takes vector imaging to a whole new level and will revolutionize the way we view images on the internet. Mind blowing stuff.

This is great, thanks for the information

Amazing news, thanks

Great article, keep up with the good information!

Great technology to view an image or image collections from different angles and with different sizes and great way to get similar photo and send an image in different views to your friends

This video is awesome. The guy is really amazing when he is speaking about the latest technology. Microsoft and its people are really up to their task.

Cheers!!!!!

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Those are nice technologies, but the open-source implementation will be more popular, I think.

I wonder if these technologies can be applied to other areas like military helicopter maps, and other military areas.

Super cool technologies!

I thought this was an awesome demonstration. Is there an estimated date of public release? I want to play with my own photos NOW! (stamps spoiled foot) Seriously though

A lucid, compelling demo. Give us a shout when you want to test deploy this with some real ads in some real digital magazines!

Cool!

This is really awesome

I agree. It would seem that these technologies would have
applications in the military arena.

Microsoft Live Labs rocks. Very nice technologies on show here guys.
Thanks

Also, these applications Seadragon and Photosynth are going to take a long while to catch up to the dominant players like Photoshop and macromedia products but Microsoft has the power and skills to do it in the end.

Looks interesting.

I really wanna see more!!

LOOKS GOOD

Microsoft Live Labs rocks.

WOW! Hats off you to folks! Truly amazing!

That is really very cool but how many years is it before something like that is really implemented for everyone to easily use?

Nice information, thanks :)

Microsoft labs are ace, great info and nice post :)

Great article, happy christmas :)

They just published a new video at the Connect site, and there was a new mind map at mappio with technology details. Cool stuff...

any news on the silverlight use/integration? Are you going to use it or not? If yes - is it going to work on non-windows platforms?

Great, Microsoft rocks!

any plan for mobile TED?

Thanks for the great articles!

Nice information ....And great technology to view !!
Regards

Amazing video you have posted, thanks for it!

TED Conference is the best conference where new technologies will be presented to the audience. Thanks to microsoft for organising such a great conference. Looking for the next conference in 2008. Cheers!

TED (Technology Entertainment Design) is an annual conference held in Monterey, California and recently, semi-annually in other cities around the world. TED describes itself as a "group of remarkable people that gather to exchange ideas of incalculable value".

For those who are unfamilier with TED i recomend further reading at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_(conference)

Great resource and have a good new year :)

I appreciate the comments, great resources. Happy New Year everybody.

Thanks Ted, hope to see it on linux also.

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TED Conference is the best conference where new technologies will be presented to the audience. Thanks to microsoft for organising such a great conference. Looking for the next conference in 2008. Cheers!

This was by far the best conference I know of and the quality is right on par. I am looking forward to 2008"s conferences. Happy New Year.

I don't think my last comment worked, so I'm posting again. If it comes up twice, delete it...

That is amazing! within the next few years we will be able to do all that with photos. I wonder how long it will take for them to all hyperlink together.

It just shows how the power of the Internet is growing and how its influence could get too much.

I think that is good interview but i recommend be more futuristic, technology came on more fast, touch tech can be help to improve this Photosynth.


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Wow, this technology is truly amazing. Its neat to see how they can view buildings in "3d" in this video even though they are really only 2d pictures. Also, the depth and size of those images in the gallery view is truly something. This is very exciting and innovative technology.

That is truly one of the most amazing things i have ever seen. The book and the 3d picture were by far the best.

Cool, the post.

Thanks for the information.

Such a great technology - looking forward to relate my own pictures to each other.

This is a great conference where new stuff will be presented to the potential customers. Thanks to microsoft for putting together such a great show.

Say what?

good!

Good stuff

Looks fantastic, but again, Microsoft don't look likely to release this for any other operating system. A boy can only dream. Let's hope Microsoft now put the focus back on the real game; a stable operating system to run this package on.

Cheers

Thank you for your work. This is a fantastic article.

I remember a talk given by Henry Fuchs, a Computer Graphics professor at UNC, when image based 3D rendering was first hitting the scene in the mid 90s. Someone asked him about the future of rendering and he said that in ten years we'd be dealing with just points and images -- quite a statement to the polygon based culture of the time. Looks like he's only off by a factor of two.

Good vision for these technologies future ! What is the result today?

Really interesting. Thanks for the article.

Microsoft is really on the forefront when it comes to this type of technology. Photosynth has some really amazing features that no other company or technology has been able to duplicate. The best part is how they can take a combination of 2d pictures and map them together to get a 3d picture like they did in this video. Awesome stuff to say the least!

I haven't had a chance to checkout the SeaDragon technology yet, but I have to admit that this Photosynth video is amazing. Not a big fan of Microsoft, but I still have to give two thumbs up for this idea ;)

I'm wondering if and when this type of technology would be available to the consumer? And, if so, how and what could it be used to do.

The C Dragon technology is amazing. Is it really possible to zoom and find such minute details from a photograph taken a low resolution camera? Say from a cell phone camera?
Also if the second technology works, then flikr is going to have very serious competition from microsoft.

It’s not real-time from flickr, they just acquired all of the photos from flickr. Their system had process these images to find the similarities, arrange them spatially, then they’re all subsequently compressed to the JPEG 2000 (.jp2) format for easy viewing. The enabling technology here is JPEG 2000, where very small bits of information read from the beginning of the file will provide correct color representation of the entire image. If you demand more definition, just load more of the file.

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This product will be amazing if it becomes generally available. Takes vector imaging to a whole new level and will revolutionize the way we view images on the internet. Mind blowing stuff.

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I wonder if these technologies can be applied to other areas like military helicopter maps, and other military areas.

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I haven't heard much about the photosynth software recently. The video is from nearly a year ago. Does anyone know how the development is going?

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What if:

Microsoft joined their efforts with Google and combined PhotoSynth with Panoramio? This would really make an astonishing application.

I think the combination of the two technologies would mean the start of a whole new era in which people will start to experience the world in a whole new manner:

Public user content of the world available through Panoramio can be used to recreate it in a digital-online setting. This would mean a way to automatically digitizing all wonders of the world (being buildings, panorama) in full picture glory. It also means other users are given the change to experience such a location in three dimensions without ever going there.

Geez, i really hope to visit some more wonders of the world this way... Ofcourse after being there in person

Greetings.

Another question:

Is it possible to abstract 3d model information from the mesh and image information?
In my opinion PhotoSynth can be seen as a way to archive and navigate image collections, but digitizing 3D environments out of the gathered data would create a truely astonishing way to navigate our world.

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