Dept of Cool New Technology: PhotoSynth

The TED Conference continues to roll out new videos of their talks. Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ demo of the work Microsoft Live Labs is doing with PhotoSynth and SeaDragon has been circulating in the tech community. Check it out below.

Essentially they’re hyperlinking millions of images based on the information in them and using that massive database of visual info to create a rich 3D model. The next generation of Rich Internet Applications may look something like this.

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