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fdezjose
Hello from Madrid...

This is so cool, the 3D view is awesome.

PavelWeb

Amazing. Now, how do I get ahold of that app? Smiley

Steve411

Holy cheese burger! wow! When is this to be released?!

scobleizer
I'm the video guy

This is a research project. The researchers come up with ideas. This isn't a finished product ready to go to market. They didn't know when the product teams would be ready to go to market, sorry.

I want it in the worst way too.

ericch1
NX-01, powered by .NET?

This app is very cool, but I am skeptical about how usable it is. I realize this is just a research app, but here's my opinions on its usability.

For example, when you hover over a photo, the photo highlights and gets bigger... but how about the photos next to it? The single huge picture obscures all the pictures around it! Typically when I look at a single picture, I also want to look at its surrounding pictures. Obscuring the surrounding pictures make it difficult for me to determine whether I care about the next picture to highlight it too or just to skip it. The current implementation would force me to highlight the next picture just to determine whether I care about it or not.

The transitions are very cool, nice work! However, I also hope there is a way to disable transitions. If I want to do something quick, transitions only make the process longer and more tedious.

Overall I think the app is cool and has potential. However more UI studies would make it even better imo. I have similar complaints about Picasa too, so it's not that I don't like this app, I just like better designed apps. Tongue Out

CplCarrot
Dust Puppy

If you want a lot of the functionality but without the WoW 3D engine then check out Adobe Photo Shot ALBUM. It has tagging, timelines, Bins (Called Collections) and also works on the pointer idea so the original is safe.

It has revolutionised my photo collections.

It was the first Application and UI that has really made me sit up and go "Yes" in a long time. I just wish it would accept non visual media files such as word docs. I guess I will have to wait for Longhorn for that.

Better still there is a free version which from memory has all the functionality but some restrictions on the number of custom tag groups you can create.

Charlie

Shining Arcanine

scobleizer wrote:
This is a research project. The researchers come up with ideas. This isn't a finished product ready to go to market. They didn't know when the product teams would be ready to go to market, sorry.

I want it in the worst way too.

What are the chances of getting this in Longhorn?

If they're low would a petition help?

ericch1 wrote:
This app is very cool, but I am skeptical about how usable it is. I realize this is just a research app, but here's my opinions on its usability.

I think it would make a very usable digital photo organizer. With all of the great things I'm hearing about Longhorn, I was expecting user interfaces like this in Longhorn. I'm not sure whether or not I was wrong to expect them but I hope that 2 years from now Longhorn has these capabilities. It would be an entirely new meaning to "My Pictures," "My Videos," etc. Heck, with such capabilies you could just make one folder (for video/pictures) called "My Media." It would give people a huge reason to upgrade/switch to Longhorn.

[quote user="ericch1"]For example, when you hover over a photo, the photo highlights and gets bigger... but how about the photos next to it? The single huge picture obscures all the pictures around it! Typically when I look at a single picture, I also want to look at its surrounding pictures. Obscuring the surrounding pictures make it difficult for me to determine whether I care about the next picture to highlight it too or just to skip it. The current implementation would force me to highlight the next picture just to determine whether I care about it or not.[/quote]

The entire reason why you're hovering over it is because you want a closer look at it, not because you're going through one photo at a time. I think that the automatic enlargement is an excellent feature. For people that don't, Microsoft could have an option that controls how big the photo gets and perhaps an option to turn it off.

ericch1 wrote:
The transitions are very cool, nice work! However, I also hope there is a way to disable transitions. If I want to do something quick, transitions only make the process longer and more tedious.

I really like the transitions and think that they make the interface flow nicely. When this is a product, I'd like to see this in it.

ericch1 wrote:
Overall I think the app is cool and has potential. However more UI studies would make it even better imo. I have similar complaints about Picasa too, so it's not that I don't like this app, I just like better designed apps.

Personally I think that part of the problem you're having is that the presentation was poor. Check this one out:

http://news.com.com/1606-2-5234982.html