Comments on: NYT: Snapshots That Do More Than Bore Friends http://allphotographers.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/nyt-snapshots-that-do-more-than-bore-friends/ tous photographes ! Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:30:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Ryan Gallagher http://allphotographers.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/nyt-snapshots-that-do-more-than-bore-friends/#comment-1131 Ryan Gallagher Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:36:27 +0000 http://allphotographers.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/nyt-snapshots-that-do-more-than-bore-friends/#comment-1131 And it's exactly those vacation snapshots, uploaded to services like flickr. As individually boring as they might be to the public, combined are somehow greater than the sum of the parts. Leading to the research by the Graphics and Imaging Lab at the University of Washington called "Photo Tourism", eventually partnering with Microsoft to create a demo product, and promising big things in terms of virtually navigating our world. They are tapping into exactly these usefulness aspects of snapshots, but broadly, and to everyone... in a cohesively navigable, geospacial, three-dimensional way. Definitely an emergent topic, and the article failed to mention these latest developments. References: http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/ http://research.microsoft.com/IVM/PhotoTours/ http://labs.live.com/photosynth/ http://labs.live.com/ http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129 And it’s exactly those vacation snapshots, uploaded to services like flickr. As individually boring as they might be to the public, combined are somehow greater than the sum of the parts. Leading to the research by the Graphics and Imaging Lab at the University of Washington called “Photo Tourism”, eventually partnering with Microsoft to create a demo product, and promising big things in terms of virtually navigating our world. They are tapping into exactly these usefulness aspects of snapshots, but broadly, and to everyone… in a cohesively navigable, geospacial, three-dimensional way.

Definitely an emergent topic, and the article failed to mention these latest developments.

References:
http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/
http://research.microsoft.com/IVM/PhotoTours/
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/
http://labs.live.com/
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129

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