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- Microsoft launches 3-D photo viewer Photosynth
- Microsoft Live Labs' latest project is actually an old one with a new twist. Photosynth lets you stitch together an entire roll of photos into dazzling 3-D environments. CNET.com's Ina Fried sits down with Microsoft's Gary William Flake to chat about what you can do with this new technology.
- Tags: 3D, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Microsoft Live Labs, News, ina fried, microsoft, photosynth, gary william, pictures, albums
- Videos 2008-08-21
- Six surprising things about Microsoft's PhotoSynth
- PhotoSynth, Microsoft's photo-stitching technology from the company's Live Labs division, is out of beta and is now a version 1.0 shipping product. If I had to choose the six things that most surprised/impressed me about PhotoSynth, this would be my list. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: MSN, Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Photograph, Technology, PhotoSynth, Software Component, Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Stunning Microsoft Labs Photosynth preview
- Microsoft Live Labs now has a working preview of their Photosynth technology technology overview and Video. The preview initially only worked for newer versions of Internet Explorer but now theres apparently a Firefox plugin for as well but it only works on Windows XP SP2 and Vista at this...
- Tags: Security, News, Microsoft, Fun Stuff, Consumer electronics, Browsers
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Try Microsoft's Photosynth
- After seven months of development, Microsoft is making Photosynth tech demo available. You cant upload photos but its a cool demo of how to navigate a photo site. In keep with Microsofts merging of the Web and client, Live Labs head Gary Flake called Photsynth an "elegant marriage between the...
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Web Technology, web2con, photograph, Photosynth
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- Microsoft Live Labs shows off Photosynth
- Microsoft Live Labs shows off PhotosynthNote to self: Get speakersnt.
- Tags: Photosynth, Microsoft Live Labs, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-08-01
- Microsoft Live Labs shows off Photosynth
- Microsoft Live Labs has this truly awesome demonstration of Photosynth, an image processing software that stitches images together in to a 3D world. They also have a 150 MB High Definition version of the video for download. There is a huge potential that this technology will reach out...
- Tags: Photosynth, Microsoft Live Labs, Microsoft Live
- Blog posts 2006-07-31
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- News to know: Apple sued; IDF; Adobe hijack; Microsoft-Novell
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch? Techmeme IDF wrap: Christopher Dawson: New touch screen Classmates unveiled today...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Novell Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Business Structures, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Microsoft mashes up multiple natural-user-interface inputs
- Publicly and privately, Microsoft officials have been making much of the company's myriad multi-touch input projects (especially with Windows 7 and Windows Mobile 7). But Microsoft's view of what the user interface of the future will look like is more complex than that. Instead of allowing users...
- Tags: Receptionist, User Interface, Microsoft Corp., Robots, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Emerging Technologies, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Don't cry for the open-source heroes
- I don't think anyone will be shedding any tears over Microsoft's open-source heroes promotion -- except possibly for true open-source zealots who still hate the idea that Microsoft is managing to convince some open-source vendors to port their wares to Windows. On February 27, Microsoft will hold...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Microsoft Live Labs rolls out list-sharing tool
- Microsoft's Live Labs -- the team that brought us PhotoSynth (photo manipulation/melding) and SeaDragon (smooth-browsing) technology previews -- has introduced another offering to its roster: Listas. Listas is a list-sharing tool. According to a description of the technology on the Live Labs Web site, Listas "allows you...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Tool, Listas, Productivity, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- Images: A 3D view of Endeavour
- Microsoft and NASA team up on a Web plug-in that uses thousands of photos to create a 3D look at the space shuttle.NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to give people a 3D photographic look at the space shuttle Endeavour before its launch this week. Viewable in Microsoft''s downloadable plug-in...
- Tags: Kennedy Space Center, shuttle, photograph, Microsoft', 3D, NASA, high-resolution, helicopter, digital photograph, software developer, plug-in, camera, developer, software, team, Web
- Image galleries 2007-08-06
- Microsoft gives 3D look at space shuttle
- Microsoft gives 3D look at space shuttleLink, please!!Sounds great - where's the link to it?!Took a look at the video for thissince my graphics card doesn't support the technology. It looks like a kludgy implementation of QuickTime VR.Windows XP SP2 and Vista OnlyThe Photosynth technology preview runs only on Windows...
- Tags: Photosynth Technology Preview, 3D, NASA, QTVR, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-06
- Astoria: Another piece of Microsoft's cloud programming model revealed
- On Monday at Mix 07, Microsoft revealed yet another piece of its puzzling cloud-programming puzzle: "Astoria." Astoria is a set of patterns and infrastructure for Web data services, explained Pablo Castro, technical lead with Microsofts database group. Castro showed off Microsofts Astoria work during his session on "Accessing...
- Tags: Code names, Database, Development tools, Housekeeping, MIX07, Silverlight (wpf/e), SQL Server, Web 2.0, Windows Live
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- News to know: Q&A with Macbook hacker; Virgin IT; iPhone; Microsoft's Volta; Google Apps
- Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Virgin Americas CIO gets IT greenfield. Gallery: Windows Home Server - April 2007 CTP Release.Ryan Naraine: 10 questions for MacBook hacker Dino Dai Zovi. QuickTime bug brought down MacBook. Russinovich: Malware will thrive, even with Vistas UAC.Mary Jo Foley: Volta: Microsofts dev platform in the Cloud?Infoworld: AT&T...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Stunning Microsoft Labs Photosynth preview
- Stunning Microsoft Labs Photosynth previewStunning what!another lock-in product that works only on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Me2I am at a loss for words...Let me just say here a big and enthusiast WOW!Truely amazing.Of course the bashers will be along soon to tell us they can do it on Linux...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-24
- My thoughts on Expression Session 07
- I had a very, very long day yesterday that revolved around what I thought was an extremely good Expression Session by Microsoft. This was the first run of the event there are two more in Chicago and New York and while there were a couple of rough spots, for the...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Windows Presentation Foundation, Expression Studio, Burton, GPS
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
- Is Microsoft and innovator or follower?
- Dave Winer and Robert Scoble debate the topic of whether Microsoft is an innovator or follower, often playing catch-up with rivals, in the Wall Street Journal. The fact the two friends and rabble rousers are debating the topic in the bastion of business reporting, the WSJ, is a good sign...
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, Entertainment, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-12-01
- Bill Gates, 1; Scoble, 0
- When it comes to the question of whether were in another bubble or not, I have to agree with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, not former "Microsoft chief blogger" Robert Scoble. The International Herald Tribune quoted Gates, speaking to a group of journalists in Brussels last Thursday, as saying: "Were back...
- Tags: Windows Live, Office Live, Corporate strategy, Legal, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
- Microsoft turns photo albums into navigable 3D worlds
- Microsoft turns photo albums into navigable 3D worldsindeed"Microsoft turns photo albums into navigable 3D worlds"Funny, looks to me like it is all the work of the CSE Graphics and Imaging Lab at the University of Washington."According to the Photosynth project blog from Live Labs, there's no set date for a...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Microsoft Corp., photograph, Abramoff, photo album, health care
- Discussion threads 2006-08-02
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