Possibly the coolest program I have ever seen!
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imagine the potential in the adult industry 
it's cool, but not as cool as MS Surface
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Whilst I appreciate it is pretty cool and all that, I'm failing to see (maybe cos it's friday and I've hardly slept this week) what practical applications this would have. Ok it makes for an interesting way of viewing your pics etc but to get anything like the examples ie building a 3d view of an area/object, you'd need to be photographing huge amounts of images which most people don't do.
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I think the demo was showing that it gets the images from the internet, so anyone who has taken photos of everywhere get put up.
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I get that but I stil don't see what practical applications it might have, aside from I suppose Architects making models of buildings etc, that kind of thing.
Also, and I know this is going to sound rather negative. Isn't it really just an extension (albeit quite a complex and powerful one) of virtual panoramas? From a quick look at the demo, it didn't really seem to do much more than a well made panorama was doing a few years ago, apart from the fact that it was spinning photos around in a 3D environment?
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Also, and I know this is going to sound rather negative. Isn't it really just an extension (albeit quite a complex and powerful one) of virtual panoramas? From a quick look at the demo, it didn't really seem to do much more than a well made panorama was doing a few years ago, apart from the fact that it was spinning photos around in a 3D environment?
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You only need to take one, Photosynth matches it to other pictures of the same area/building and creates the 3D image from that...
Mix it with the Internet though and you get something much better. essentially a 3D self updating google maps that can zoom in as far as anyone in the world has taken a pic, if i took a pic of my loo bowl, you could search for my home town and then zoom in until you got to it.
Imagine all the pictures in the world being linked up like this rather than simply being searched for by whatever is in their name. you could say search for "taj mahal" and you would see a 3d view of it mad eup by loads of tourists photos and people could add captions/ info and date to the photos. the ideas it hat by link them together in an intelligne tmanner they become greater than the sum of the individual parts. you could even have pictures of the same thing but of differnet dates. then we get a 4th dimension.
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I suppose it's pretty impressive to be able to do that, but apart from novelty value etc I don't see much of a real application for it.
When I take pics of places, I do it cos I have seen something I like the look of and I have composed a shot and want it to capture a memory etc. I can't see myself wanting to then add that picture to a huge collection that can then be built up to form a 3D image and viewed by the world over. And also I won't be particularly interested in seeing other peoples images of the same place.
Also, will there be measures to prevent rubbish quality or badly taken pictures ending up being used cos that could make things look rubbish etc. #
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