TED : Photosynth demo
Excellent talk and demo of Photosynth and the Seadragon technology behind it.
For anybody unfamiliar with Photosynth, it's a piece of software which analyses images for similarities, and then puts them together into an interactive three-dimensional space.
As the demo shows the technology also opens up a huge amount of possibility for online magazine content.
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posted by Malcolm Garrett
on 31 July 2007
I watched this over and over several times now.
Is this really real? How do they do that?!
posted by Simon Hillier
on 08 August 2007
The Devil's Work
It's magic Malcolm.
This is absolutely blinding. My jaw did truly drop. Unfortunately, I also saw this link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/technology/6936444.stm
Which describes a really mundane use of a similar software which is like an enormous 'healing' photoshop tool. Read the article to understand my reaction - but I can't imagine looking at a photo that i'd erased my girlfriend from in the same way. Although, having said that, i'm sure there will be some ingenious a mashup of it very soon. I just see it being hijacked by Estate Agents and Criminals, who amount to the same thing. Now there's a reasonable point of view.
posted by Bob Cotton
on 19 September 2007
virtual prototypes
At its current beta stage, Photosynth fits with Sculley's Knowledge Navigator and Kay's Dynabook as an inspirational virtuality that may one day turn into a fabulous tool for navigating the world's marked-up snapshots. Berner's Lee's dream in 1989 was no less fantastic...
posted by Jane Plüer
on 23 October 2007
I love TED
I only just stumbled over the TED site and I am amazed of the wealth of brilliant talks on there!
One of my favourites got to be by Sir Ken Robinson: "Do schools kill creativity?" I highly recommend checking that one out, not least because Sir Ken Robinson is a brilliant speaker: engaging, witty and to the point.
This site is well worth spending hours on!
(Apart from the wonderful content of this site, there is a nice detail that I would like to find more often on other sites showing videos: whenever you hover over the scroll bar with your cursor, underneath the videos, it indicates with keywords exactly where you are in the talk, and therefore allows you to jump easily between points - clever!).