Microsoft’s cooking something really cool.
The Photosynth project aims to organize large collections of photographs, especially those funnelled through aggregator sites, such as Flickr, using geographic models of real spaces. They have a demo collection of Piazza San Marco of Venice and of Piazza San Pietro, in Rome. The effect is nothing but mindblowing. And it uncanily resembles our own vision, here at Purdue, of connecting all environments with a seamless web of meaning and interaction via the cyberclassroom project and via Visible Past.
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This is the Microsoft official clip for Photosynth
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- This is the Microsoft presentation at the latest TED conference
- This is the Microsoft Photosynth site
- This is the SeaDragon group at Microsoft, responsible for Photsynth