Microsoft’s Shiny New Toy [MIT Technology Review]
[MIT Technology Review; March/April, 2008]
Microsoft’s Shiny New Toy
Photosynth is dazzling, but what is it for?
At last March’s Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference in Monterey, CA, a summit that’s been described as “Davos for the digerati,” the calm-voiced software architect from Microsoft began his demonstration abruptly, navigating rapidly across a sea of images displayed on a large screen. Using Seadragon, a technology that enables smooth, speedy exploration of large…