I have recently discovered a great source of up and coming technology at the TED Conference which is basically a coming together of some the greatest minds in the world spread across all fields.There are extraordinary demo’s of new software under development. The first is Seadragon. Seadragon seems to be screen size independent; great for mobiles with allows the smooth zooming or browsing of content. Included in the demo is Photosynth with just blows my mind. The software basically composites multiple images extracted from a site like flicker into a 3D object which can be zoomed in on, incredibly fluid in BETA at the moment only on PC (probably works on bootcamp if you have a Mac). These technologies in full release especially when embedded in mobile devices will make the users experience much simpler as well as adding a further dimension to the mobile experience. Which in the past was very restrictive in regard to screen size . The recent change in the mobile experience have really come with the iphone, but if Microsoft who owns Seadragon and Photosynth adds them to the Microsoft mobile OS. Microsoft could jump ahead of the iphone in the future if implement correctly.










Yeah,
This is very cool stuff!
I’ve added something about immersive full-screen photo viewing, that is alsow pretty spectacular.
http://www.piclens.com/site/firefox/tutorial_pl_ff_16.php#
By: linda on April 9, 2008
at 6:44 am