The Outlier Post: Microsoft Labs Photosynth Technology
Just saw a blog posting from Bryan Ressler, one of the Microsoft Labs PIX team members. In it he gives some details about the Photosynth technology preview the PIX team has been working on. Apparently, this technology takes a collection of photos from a location, analyzes them, and builds up a 3D space from that data you can explore. It's hard to describe, but pictures and videos can be found on the blog post above.
I thought this quote was particularly interesting:
"What if all the world’s billions of images were woven into a single gigantic Photosynth collection? What if you could visit any place, anywhere, through the eyes of the countless people who have photographed that place in the past? What if you could take a trip through time, seeing how a place changed as time went by?"
Very, very cool!
All that said, here's a question for you guys. I completely recognize this is more of a "cool technology" post, and doesn't have much to do with video games or the video game industry. (I could probably come up with some interesting game concepts down the road, but it's a stretch.) Are you interested in this sort of occasional non-game-related "it's just cool!" technology post? Or should I just stick to the game industry and (at least tangentially) related topics like HD-DVD, home theater, etc?
Thoughts?