Scobleizer » photosynth http://scobleizer.com Exploring the 2010 Web Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:03:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 How I Photosynth’d my family room http://scobleizer.com/2008/08/20/how-i-photosynthd-my-family-room/ http://scobleizer.com/2008/08/20/how-i-photosynthd-my-family-room/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:09:41 +0000 http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/?p=4513 I just put up a Photosynth of my family room. Unfortunately you need a Windows machine to view it. But, this is a combination of 50 images I made this afternoon with my Canon 5D.

It took only a few minutes to upload them all and complete the Photosynth. Very easy to do. Anyone can do it, you just need to plan out your Photosynth a bit. Sort of like a big stitched panorama, except that people can “walk” through the images and zoom into different ones.

Can you find the photo of our 11-month-old son, Milan?

]]> http://scobleizer.com/2008/08/20/how-i-photosynthd-my-family-room/feed/ 0 “Demo of the year” of 2006 released by Microsoft http://scobleizer.com/2008/08/20/demo-of-the-year-of-2006-released-by-microsoft/ http://scobleizer.com/2008/08/20/demo-of-the-year-of-2006-released-by-microsoft/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:09:49 +0000 http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/?p=4508 If you go to Google and search for “demo of the year” you’ll find my 2006 post about Microsoft’s Photosynth. It was that good. The demo is still among my favorite I’ve ever seen (and I’ve sat through thousands of demos).

A few minutes ago Microsoft released Photosynth for all of us to use.

What does Photosynth do? You take a bunch of photos of something, like the outside of your house. Shoot a bunch from different locations. It’s best to have between 20 and 300 photos, the Photosynth team tells me. Then it creates a 3D mesh of all the photos that you can “walk” through. There are several demo Photosynths on the site.

I am uploading some of my family room right now, will let you know how that works later tonight. Just wanted to let you know you can play with it too.

UPDATE: My images are now uploaded so you can see a Photosynth of my family room (can you find baby Milan?) and O’Reilly has a nice writeup on the release.

UPDATE2: There’s even more on TechMeme.

]]> http://scobleizer.com/2008/08/20/demo-of-the-year-of-2006-released-by-microsoft/feed/ 0