New Microsot Photosynth: 3 dimensional Outer Photo Space

Microsoft has this cool new gadget called Photosynth. It takes a large collection of photos from you or other areas of the web that relate to one particular space or setting. Think...Venice, Italy or Disney World. Then, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space.

This new tool is so cool, I almost don't believe they can do it.

According to the Microsoft Lab page, the Microsoft Photosynth enables you to:

• Walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any angle
• Seamlessly zoom in or out of a photo whether it's megapixels or gigapixels in size
• See where pictures were taken in relation to one another
• Find similar photos to the one you're currently viewing
• Send a collection - or a particular view of one - to a friend

The project takes multiple photos, flashed from multiple angles on one particular place. Like a cathedral, museum, etc. These photos could have all been taken by one person, or collected from multiple people over the web. Their sophisticated program, uses some kind of algorithm to identify what angle each photo was from, how big the actual image is in comparison to the others and ultimately relates them all in a logical way.

Once it has accomplished this, it puts the photos in a 3-D space and allows the viewer to navigate through it as if navigating through some flash model on the web, but instead of being animated models, it's the true photos all placed in their perspective area of the full scene. It's too crazy to explain, you will have to test it out for yourself. You can actually test it right now very easily, and I am just about positive you have NEVER seen anything like it.

Check out the new Microsoft Photosynth 3-D Space Tech Preview

By channeling the sophistication of say, Google's multi-media searching method and this new Photosynth, it could enable anyone, from anywhere to see full fledged realistic 3-D versions of anything, anywhere!

External Link Resources

Launch Microsoft Photosynth Tech Preview
Microsoft Photosynth Photo Collections
Photosynth Video: Watch the Making of Photosynth

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3D Glasses Back In Style

Disney recently came out out "Meet The Robinson's" a 3D animated film and one of the first of it's kind. I haven't seen the movie, but now I definitely want to check it out. Apparently, the technology used for this type of 3D animated effect is a far cry from what I remember about 3D, like the SpiderMan Ride at Universal studios, or big goofy red glasses that only seemed half real.

The company that has been working on the project is Read D, who's president and co-founder Joshua Greer looks like he might have just stepped out of a comic book store, and doesn't look a day over 25.

What makes Read D and Greer special as far as revolutionizing the 3D cinema effect, is that they have been working hard, diligently and without reserve. They focused completely on 3D cinema effects, an industry that might have appeared almost dead and long gone to most of us who remember getting a head ache, while feeling the pinch of Back to the Future style glasses pinning down on our temples. Read the full 3 page story at Read D: Future of Cinema

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I don't pretend to understand the dynamics, technology and back story on the entire world of 3d cinema, but I do know that it sounds very interesting, exciting and in my mind brings up some interesting theories on how this new technology might effect stocks :)

Novice, stock idea conspiracy theories of the day:

1. The 3d technology requires a special projector, a DLP based projector, that currently only 3 vendors make. Pick the one that seems most reliable, forward thinking and with a lot of money behind it and buy in. Might take a while, but hopefully their stock will go up tremendously once the 3d cinema craze hits