Editor’s Choice, Part II, of Microsoft Research TechFest Tour
Rocky picked the coolest stuff off of the Microsoft Research TechFest Tour so if you only have 16 minutes, you can see our favorite stuff from the tour (part 1 of the full tour is about an hour long, so we’ve edited it down into three more shorter videos — this is the second part).
Here’s what you’ll find on this shorter version:
- Matt Uyttendaele shows off HUGE (4 gigapixel or so) photos with a killer “tiling” system that displays them wicked fast.
- Linking the real world to the Web with pictures (killer camera phone research).
- Richard Harper demonstrates a bunch of hardware concepts and trials for home users.
Tags: Microsoft Research, TechFest, Matt Uyttendaele, 4 gigapixel, Richard Harper
March 21st, 2007 at 7:24 am
What about, in the short version (but also the long one), not zoom on the badge, but show their names on an on-screen line for everyone, like you do for the Manager at the begining of this video?
March 21st, 2007 at 9:50 am
Had Robert not keyed in on the names, I would have done exactly that. In the short, the purpose is not to ID people, just to hook them into the long show. I appreciate the suggestion-
Rocky-
March 23rd, 2007 at 8:29 pm
[…] There are several cool videocasts from Robert Scoble’s visit to the recent Microsoft Research Techfest. The one I thought would interest Flashie Battle is the second in the series that covers navigating gigapixel images on the web, using your mobile phone camera to do picture searching, and some simple but effective interactive tablet ideas for use in the home that connect again to the mobile phones of the family. Even Matt might find the latter set of demos interesting from his home automation days. […]
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