This video was posted shortly after last year's Technology Entertainment Design conference, but it's only in the last few days that it's come to the attention of bloggers. Stick with it until the extraordinary demonstration towards the end of using a pool of people's photos on Flickr to enable you to explore Notre Dame cathedral:
In the year since this video was made, Microsoft's Silverlight plug-in has started to bring this technology to the browser; the Hard Rock Café's memorabilia site uses a similar zoom-in-and-out technique to enable you to explore Jimi Hendrix's leather jacket in a greater detail that you could have ever have thought feasible. Of course, the throughput of data that's needed to make this kind of thing a glitch-free viewing experience is beyond the capabilities of our broadband connections. But it's a glimpse of what's heading our way.
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Rhodri,
What does 'throughput' mean old chap? Your blog is fascinating but I'm afraid you might have to slow down a little for fuddy duddies like myself. As a keen amateur photographer however, this looks like a very exciting new way of showing off the holiday snaps!
Bill
Posted by: bill | Friday, 23 May 2008 at 11:27 AM
Not sure about the remark that it's only recently come to the attention of bloggers. I read about it (on a blog) a year ago and it was picked up by several others.
It is very cool though.
Posted by: MikeTheGoat | Friday, 23 May 2008 at 02:40 PM
There are so many brilliant videos on Youtube from that event, I'm sure you know, but others might not. Uma Thurman's dad, a world expert on buddhism, is one of my favourites, but you could be there for hours.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5cZITQDTrE
Posted by: emma t | Friday, 23 May 2008 at 04:42 PM