The photosynth demo was incredible yesterday, I would highly recommend that anyone who hasn’t checked out the videos etc. online should do so as soon as possible.Blaise Aguera y Arcas is obviously an utter brain-ninja, and they (the Photosynth team) will be building out this software so that they will be able to render 3D representations of real locations just based on photos found on the net. To paraphrase him, eventually based on photographic information they will probably be able to build a proper metaverse. Here’s the original TED presentation without the 3D modelling.
