Obama photosynth: navigating networked visual spaces


A more interesting take CNN used on Barack Obama's inauguration today (following the now legendary Jessica Yellin's hologram) is a tool developed by Microsoft called Photosynth: thousands and possibly millions of pictures taken in the same place shape a visual 3D space through which you can navigate.
Such networked photographing and publishing of photos might completely change our way of experiencing the visual in the future. (Shame I couldn't download Silverlight on my Mac PowerBook...)
There is a superb talk on that on Ted (scroll to middle of the speech to see the remarkable 3D look of Notre Dame de Paris):
PS once again - yes we did
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