Microsoft Seadragon, PhotoSynth and Virtual Earth 3D demo with Adam Shepard at TED 2007
Posted by austin under Conference, Interview
One of the demo’s at TED 2007 that really impressed everyone was from Adam Shepard and Microsoft Research. I wrote about the Seadragon and Microsoft Virtual Earth demo from the conference, but I also got to sit down with Adam during the conference and get a demo on film.
This is impressive stuff that is visually stunning. I give Microsoft a lot of grief over their marketing, but it is good to see them showing some of the great research and technology development occurring there.
Jay Goldman at Radiant Core did a great series of posts about his Microsoft User Experience Roundtable recently which are worth a read.
Robert Scoble just posted a video of some of the tours he did at Microsoft Research recently. Microsoft does have a lot of research going on, but they have not proven themselves able to commercialize or bring this technology to market.
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March 21st, 2007 at 12:14 am
Hi Austin,
This is really cool. Thanks for sharing the video. Now, I wonder how powerful does a computer need to be? And how many photos are needed for the first and second model? And the integration of high-res scan just look slick and yet probably CPU and memory intensive too.
I like the Scoble’s Tour too (favourite so far: #2 in part 1). In my blog about the tour, I wonder — Is Microsoft the new Xerox PARC ? PARC was known for its great technology while having terrible execution and failure to commercialize products.
From these tours and demos, looks like MSFT still have some cool stuff inside. Whether we get to see them or not is a different matter. Just my 2 cents.
March 21st, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Thanks for the link Austin!
Part 1 of the series is a good place for people to start reading.