Yesterday we reported that CNN would be using Microsoft's PhotoSynth technology to stitch together thousands of submitted photos to create a 3D environment of Obama's inauguration.The end result is fairly impressive, the technology takes all the submitted images from thousands of sources and angles to create a 360 degree visual image that can be viewed from different angles. The image has zoom in and out functions from close up and shots taken further back, all with incredible detail.
Microsoft has also created a Live Search Map where people can upload "stitches" and search for different inauguration related "stitches".
PhotoSynth is based technology from a small, Seattle-area startup named Seadragon. Microsoft acquired the company in 2006 and the technology is capable of delivering a buttery smooth experience browsing massive quantities of visual information over the Internet. Photos can range from megapixels to gigapixels and Microsoft's first iPhone app was Seadragon so it's clearly an important technology for the company going forward. This is the first time Microsoft has used this technology on a large scale and at such a high profile event. We'd bet Microsoft will be using this heavily in the future.
Last edited by highonsnow on 21 Jan 2009 - 17:50
I think he means primordial oooze formed at the beginning of the planets life, either that or elements created during the big bang.
He is mixed race, he has brown skin and no-one has black coloured skin anyway as black is the absence of colour.
They did this crap with Lewis Hamilton being the 'first black' world forumula 1 champion.
I wish reporters and social commentators would see past the colour of this mans skin.
I wish this would happen in Britain (electing a non-white prime minister), however not in a trillion years will it happen as Britain is a racist country.
It's nice to see United States citizens voting with their feelings for hope rather than having to have a white skinned person in charge.
I can only admire your people and you have written a huge chapter in history.
Uh, no. That would mean practically everyone in the country is black. (Typing "moar" looks really dumb by the way.)
Obama is black though, he says so himself so isn't that enough? It's like some people don't want to admit we have a black president. I don't mean the original poster though. As for it being a big deal, it's because of how far the country has came since just a few decades ago where he would not have been able to even drink from the same water fountains as other people. Back then to suggest a black president would have been laughed at. They'd have probably tried to hang you for suggesting it.
Last edited by TRC on 21 Jan 2009 - 16:58
Its a watershed moment for blacks regardless of whether Obama is really 'a black man'. But you could also say he is black, so its correct to call him a black president, but he's also white.
But people should have a right to say, if they want, that he isn't really fully black. I really never got why people don't just call him 'mulatto'. He looks like a mulatto more than black.
Lurk moar. Thank you.
Yeah you are right. It would immediately send your credi card information to Microsoft and poison your dog. Plus, it can not be uninstalled, the computer has to be cremated once you put it on.
I couldn't agree more.
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