In short we really like it…
Post update – video of the resulting Photosynth is now part of a new post here.
Microsofts Photosynth is without question a technology to watch and CNN are about to push it to a new level with their plans to capture a moment in time in 3D. The moment of capture is January 20th 12:00pm ET when Barack Obama places his hand on the bible and takes the presidential oath of office.
At that point if you are in the crowd CNN wants you to:
Its an intriguing idea to capture a moment in time in 3D using essentially crowd sourced images, we cant wait to see how it turns out.
Take a look at CNNs ‘The Moment‘ site for more information.
A couple of days ago we posted about the company easyweb using high end ‘geoaware‘ projectors to beam images onto architecture in the city. While not on the same scale a new trend is emerging using mini projectors to display images while on the move around the urban scene – after all the city is a canvas there to be used.
The movie below was produced by a employee of Microvision who ‘borrows’ the companies up and coming pico projector to post on his excellent blog ‘the pico underground‘.
We like this a lot but if you have ever got annoyed with people playing their music on the bus via phones with built in speakers, within the next 18 months phones will have built in projectors and music on the bus will be upgraded to movies on the streets.
To be honest we are quite looking forward to it, it could certainly liven up the cityscape at night…