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I recall many years back a website, I think a Microsoft project, that linked together photos in a 3D space of tourist destinations. It created something of a p

by mey 6y ago

I recall many years back a website, I think a Microsoft project, that linked together photos in a 3D space of tourist destinations. It created something of a point cloud, but nothing this advanced. You could click through the points/photos to jump into each photos perspective of the space. Anyone remember what that project was called, or if it is even still around? Edit: Found it. http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/ http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/ Later the discontinued. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynth

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ur-whale 6y ago
Was it PhotoSynth ? https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosynth_can_connect_the_world_s_images/transcript?language=en https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosyn...
- mey 6y ago
  Watching this demo makes it very stark how much our single page webapps are regressions in fluid performance.
  - fastball 6y ago
    Is this not a Silverlight app or something? I highly doubt that demo was JS / could run in multiple browsers without some proprietary runtime.
    - shakna 6y ago
      It was, in point of fact, a Java applet. [0] Older, less secure, but more powerful. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20191231213153/http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/applet/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20191231213153/http://phototour....
- oillio 6y ago
  After watching that video: Why did no one build the application that tied your personal photos with a global database of all the other public photos taken in the same place? Seems like it would have been an amazing application.
- AtomicOrbital 6y ago
  yes ... impressive TED talk back then and even now