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I have ever seen:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-DqZ8jAmv0[/youtube]

It can take a dump of photographs linked together by tiny pieces of metadata, and by analyzing the photos, construct a spatial definition for the objects shown across all the photos WITHOUT a person connecting each photo to a point in space. The algorithm is basically assembling a massive three dimensional jigsaw puzzle out of a jumble of pictures.

So if you had enough people taking pictures of a city, or a carshow, or a house, or whatever... it will have enough datapoints to reconstruct that space and let you walk through it using photographs.


These are also the people that demo'd a multi touch screen last year. Might seem familiar, but these guys are not microsoft.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65

123 views and I'm the only one who thinks this is amazing or what?!?!?

Shut up nerd! Gimme your lunch money!

Really and truly this is amazing. Its incredible that all that information can be linked together and 3-D models can be put together from a collection of photos like that. That and the ad in the corner of that paper. Once personal portable computers (tablets or the like) become more powerful and practical I think that could be the way we get most our information, ie. replacing newspapers or magazines.