Many of you are Mac geeks while some of us are Microsoft fans. Look, the iPhone trumped any of Microsoft’s phone efforts, but their creativity surpasses any Mac product on the books with their Photosynth project. In case you didn’t have enough videos to watch today, I thought I’d give you one more. So, grab a cup of coffee, take 10 and watch the future brought to you by Microsoft.
When you’re done, tell us how you think this could change the face of Real Estate? Comments are highly encouraged!
Richard Riccelli says:
nice. brilliant stuff despite BMW at the end. Zillow neighborhoods should be so lucky.
August 23, 2007 — 6:59 pm
Todd Carpenter says:
Wow. That makes iPhoto look absolutely silly. I’m not really sure how it would help the RE world. That’s an awesome desktop application but the sheer amount of data there makes me think consumers would need a far bigger pipe to pull broadband through to see it in a timely fashion.
August 23, 2007 — 7:40 pm
Matthew Hardy says:
Gee. I saw this some time ago… This is shipping, right? No? I predict that by the time Microsoft completes their beta testing on this (meaning sometime around version 5 or 6), Apple will have an iPhone that you swallow which systemically interacts with your eyeballs, ears and brain. Then MS will come out with a Zune that your proctologist inserts for you.
August 23, 2007 — 7:55 pm
Jason Mook says:
Wow… I can’t wait to do my first “spacial” walk-around of a listing.
August 23, 2007 — 9:47 pm
J. Ferris says:
Well, Matthew said what I agree with so I don’t have too much to add. It’s not a shipping product and you can already do this with photos and your fingers with Apple’s shipping iPhone: Apple Zoom Technology. Sorry, I don’t mean to nail you to the wall on this one but if you are going to claim Microsoft superiority to Apple then you’ll have to really do your research thoroughly. I am a big fan of one Microsoft product that Apple can’t compete with: Xbox 360. Of course Apple also doesn’t have a video game console.
Jason, your future is today. Here you go: http://vupods.com/
August 23, 2007 — 10:38 pm
Joe Strummer says:
Virtual photograph tours are fairly easily produced today. This technology, while relevant to real estate only in the sense that people live in the real world, is really about linking together information and aggregating content on a global scale.
August 24, 2007 — 5:04 am
Lani Anglin says:
I don’t normally ruffle feathers on purpose, but Jeff Brown and I have a silly mac vs. pc war offline and I know he chuckled that I’m still towing my line. No research needed- Microsoft and Mac are different products and I remain loyal to non-Mac.
But don’t be a moron like me and blindly follow one brand- look around and branch out as technology grows. Over loyalty may make YOU miss a boat or two! If I was over loyal to non-Mac then I wouldn’t ever consider getting an iPhone (which I don’t but someday might have).
Photosynth isn’t breaking news but it is pretty freakin’ cool!
August 24, 2007 — 7:25 am
Eric Blackwell says:
As the technologist for a fairly large real estate office, I’d have to say that (while this is pretty darn cool.), it is a LONG way from a) production b) application to the real estate market and c) usefulness to a real estate consumer.
I am a MS guy at heart, but the iPhone is a very cool and usable tool that will develop into a more usable tool when the price drops a bit and we can all convince our significant others that it is worth the investment.
The one thing that stuck me about this though is the applicability to the Search Engine world. Today hyperlinks come from text. In this demo they came from pixels tagged with metadata. Today authors and relationships determine relevance in the search engine world. Tomorrow could photographers play a big role?
Eric Blackwell
August 25, 2007 — 12:48 pm
rob aubrey says:
I had a chance to check out photosynth a while back it is pretty amazing. I too am a MS fan. Most mac people have no idea what MS actually has as software. I have a few mac users in my office. They always shout out the cool aid drinking commercials. It is easier, it safer… mac office is the same, I can read a word doc with a mac.
MS bet it’s money a long time ago on the business applications and that was the better bet. I agree that while a mac may have had a more stable OS and Adobe’s creative software was written for a mac. Office ’07 is pretty amazing.
btw the good blog, good stuff, i enjoyed visit and will stop back.
August 26, 2007 — 2:54 am