Posted By Malcolm Owen On March 26, 2011 at 6:37 pm Comments Off

Remember Photosynth? The Microsoft project that allowed you to have “3D-ish” views of events based on a massive amount of photographs taken at the same time? Well, some impressive bods have managed to do the same but on a smaller scale…

This time, Microsoft researchers have come up with a version that actually extrapolates 3D data [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On May 16, 2009 at 12:31 am Comments Off

QR Codes are a fantastic idea. Mostly. And yes, I’m talking about a technology that has been around for quite some time and it really didn’t take off outside of Japan, but go with me on this.
I know that you lot would have seen them before and dismissed them as futuristic ideas that will never [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On April 30, 2009 at 8:42 pm Comments Off

I’m sure that everyone in the world has tried Google Maps and loved to zoom in on streets to see their car on their driveway. But what if you could do that to photographs?
No, I’m not talking about normal photos of people posing. I mean of panoramas, such as of a group of skyscrapers. With [...]