Awesome Technology From Microsoft - Photosynth
Friday, June 15, 2007
This is what keeping the people busy at live labs
Here is a small writeup in the live page about photosynth.
"The Photosynth Technology Preview is a taste of the newest - and, we hope, most exciting - way to view photos on a computer. Our software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how each one relates to the next.
In our collections, you can access gigabytes of photos in seconds, view a scene from nearly any angle, find similar photos with a single click, and zoom in to make the smallest detail as big as your monitor."
Follow these Steps to experience Photosynth
1. Go to collections
2. Choose a one of your choice - this will ask you to install a small plugin in firefox. Go ahead and do it and I assure, you won't repent for a microsoft plugin for a firefox browser.
3.Experience the minutest details of the monuments.
There's nothing more to write about it. It's all about experiencing it. After all, seeing is believing.
posted by Unknown @ 11:55 AM,
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Synercus caffer fight and more stories...
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
This is a wonderful movie shot by a tourist, while driving in a safari vehicle in South Africa's Kruger National Park. The view count had crossed 7 digits and soon will surpass the “metos-coke”, one of the most viewed movies in youtube.
This is an awesome video about how a herd of buffalos fight with five lions. They probably are Cape buffalos, the South African habitats having upward-curving horns.
For all those, who live in a fast world and can't spare 8+ minutes to watch this snippet, (I seriously suggest you to watch the movie), I will run through the movie line. The lions attack the buffalo and get hold of a minnow out of the three. The rest of the buffaloes rushes out and escapes from the lion. After sometime, they come back as a big herd and attacks back the lion and save their youngling. It's awesome, in a way, its shot unexpectedly with an unprofessional digital camera.
When I glimpsed through the video, I am bit more nostalgic with a story which I had read in my pre school time. It's all about the same story line that I have narrated above. It’s to teach the kids about the "power of n" Vs. "power of 1". I still remember, it’s written in red and yellowish colored book, with few lines written below each graphic, mimicking a mini comic.
I imagine, in the future the kids will be learning the same story with the realistic movie like the one above, instead of the book I read. The OLPC tries to provide a laptop for all kids in a price range of sub 150$ (converting to 6000 rupees with a over heated Indian currency conversion rate, against US dollar, of 41). And the kid in India can watch the video, which was shot at the other side of the globe at South Africa by a US photographer and uploaded into Youtube like video web 2.0's created by nerds across the globe.
And all the study materials of the future will no more be printed in the same red and yellowish colored papers, rather uploaded in sites like youtube , open courseware, and knowledge base created by people across the globe. And presumably, the wikis will rule. The notebooks are dead. Long live the notebooks!!
posted by Unknown @ 8:23 PM,
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