Blaise Aguera y Arcas: The technology behind Photosynth
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PhotoSynth is a technology that automatically combines 2D photos into an immersive 3D environment.
With the official release of Photosynth, we catch up with Blaise Aguera y Arcas, one of the Photosynth architects to talk about the technology and team that powers
More Photosynth love:
- Laura Foy's 3-minute overview on Photosynth
- Nic Fillingham's Photosynth Shutter Speed episode
- Max Zuckerman interviews Noah Snavely, who originally created the Photosynth project while a student at the University of Washington
Also, for an in depth look into the technologies addressed here, see the Photosynth Going Deep from 2006 with Blaise.
With the official release of Photosynth, we catch up with Blaise Aguera y Arcas, one of the Photosynth architects to talk about the technology and team that powers
More Photosynth love:
- Laura Foy's 3-minute overview on Photosynth
- Nic Fillingham's Photosynth Shutter Speed episode
- Max Zuckerman interviews Noah Snavely, who originally created the Photosynth project while a student at the University of Washington
Also, for an in depth look into the technologies addressed here, see the Photosynth Going Deep from 2006 with Blaise.
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Here's our house
http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=9AD9A8F8-9D6A-4747-9D21-B29EEE578A53
Not sure about every else, but I get a bit dizzy while using the plugin and moving around. Would have been nice if you could just do it locally on your computer without having to upload them, since it seems to do all the processing on your computer.
ultra cheap and fast rotoscoping, fast digitalisation of 3d objects, it boggles the mind..
a dll would be awsome
It's the same with Virtual Earth 3D, many sites that use Flash and the SkyDrive uploader. They keep telling me I need to install the software/plug-in even though I obviously already do.
There's a few others but I can't remember them right now and others that are completely mysterious becasue they don't tell me what they are like when I go to Facebook sometimes and the yellow bar pops up and tells me my security settings do not allow me to run activex controls and when I click on it it just says "More information".
I've been putting off re-installing my OS because I hate setting up everything again but it's definitely time.
I know this has nothing to do with Photosynth (which is amazing! by the way) but it was just another example of the problem I'm having and how I dislike re-installing an OS to fix a mystery problem
I love Photosynth, but... what is this, MobileMe?
Anyway, great video. Blaise is really good at conveying how stuff works in a very clear way. And I like how you guys are casually sitting next to the Surface machine. "Oh yeah, that old thing. We needed a coffee table, so.."
And is Dan picking up Charles' "Interesting", or what?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Russian_Federation.svg
Personal aside on the t-shirt, I like ice hockey, I like Russian hockey (Dynamo ftw), and Russia was fascinating when I went there pre-Sovient Union break up.
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