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Mike, Tacoma, Wa — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:30:14 GMT

I love this!! I have been stitching together Panoramas and automating, or providing an interface for them for awhile. The work I need to do to stitch everything together used to be a pain, now with applications coming along (some I already use) to auto stitch and others like this being able to take large archives of pictures and move the stitching process a bit further down the road. I can't wait for the day where you can pick an object out of a picture and move around it in 3 dimensions easily without tons of processing power.

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Tom, Wethersfield, CT — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:17:07 GMT

More MS garbage. keep getting message that i need to upgrade my video card. already did this to run Vista. forget it, I'll get my images from tarditional sources.

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steve smyth lynn mass — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:19:42 GMT

can't run it, becaue I'm stuck at windows 98...but, my first thought is...keep it up, and nobody will want to go anywhere...space is at home, why bother...maybe that's what it all comes down to,eh?
it is, after all, all relative...ain't it?

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James Rose, New York, NY — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:01:41 GMT

I've been following Photosynth for nearly a year now, and this is my favorite collection so far. I believe that when more users find out about Photosynth AND when we are all able to contribute that this will become the "next big thing" in social computing.

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Kevin Riley, Rivhmond, VA — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:59:05 GMT

I have just downloaded the plug in and taken a look. I was really impressed to be honest. This is something LiveLabs got RIGHT. This could really open up some wonderful stuff. My parents aren't able to travel that often. With this type of interface, anyone can have a sense of wonder added to just looked at regular pictures on the web... and yes it is that good. I have a new HP laptop running Vista and I had no problems running the plug in. I even managed to get my wife over to take a look and she thought it was pretty amazing as well. Great job to all who developed it.

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BT Hathaway — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:02:47 GMT

Won't run on my hardware.

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John Doe, Seattle, Wash — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:43:50 GMT

Unable to process....help command station!!

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Loren, SF Bay Area CA — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:18:29 GMT

Yet another "wonderful MSNBC feature" that won't work on my Mac. Feh.

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Randy Redman, Minnesota — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:19:08 GMT

When I get a message that I need to upgrade my video card again and then they tell me "nothing to see here, move on"? I will wait until they become more friendly.

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Mark Jones, Waukesh, WI — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:32:15 GMT

This is slick. I looked at the demo about six months back and am glad to see the progress made. Now, if PhotoSynth can be made cross-platform compatible....

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Wil, N. Richland Hills, TX — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:52:12 GMT

I am running Vista on a gateway laptop with a customer experience rating of 1.0... pretty poor, but i was able to use the application. I have a real appreciation of the military uses of such an app... a flyby photo recon of a location could return 3-D coordinates for hyper-accurate cruise-missle strikes. I would like to see the app better render the 3d models however.. rather than points, I would love to see skinning and polygons. Perhaps when I try this on my home PC it will. I will check! nice work LIVElabs!

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ohn Doe, Seattle, Wash. — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:58:52 GMT

Doesn't run on Linux

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Tony, Dallas TX — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:13:27 GMT

Shocked. Shocked I am it's Vista/XP only.

Your winnings, sir.

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Frank Glover, Rochester, NY — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:49:15 GMT

I wouldn't worry, Steve. There's already a massive Earthly tourist industry based on the notion that seeing only pictures of new and/or exotic places isn't enough...space will be no different. Tourists don't pay to visit Hawaii or Yosemite via telerobotics. The curious, be they researchers or adventurers will always find a way to get there.

But cool pictures are always a good start...

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herman — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:03:16 GMT

works fine on my macbook running vista

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Don, Seattle, WA — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:00:16 GMT

I saw this demoed on a video from the TED conference. Amazing stuff, and I wasn't expecting to see it on my own machine so soon. Very cool.

> "Doesn't run on Linux"

LOL. No, and neither does anything else.

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Don, Seattle — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:15:19 GMT

Here's the Photosynth/Seadragon talk at TED. It's very impressive: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129

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Speedcat Hollydale — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:26:32 GMT

I wish I could use this...

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Tony, Austin, TX — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:16:25 GMT

Very nice. Tells me it can't be run on my hardware, I click "Educate me" and it tells me that there's nothing to see.

Finding it hard to care.

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Des Emery, St. Thomas, ON, Canada — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:18:53 GMT

I followed the directions given and got something that works beyond my present capacities to manipulate. I shall persevere.

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Ron Hunter,Piedmont,MO — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:34:00 GMT

Bless you all,I'm soon 65 and love it.I forward these things to my 15 year old grandson in Florida with hopes of catching his interest. Thank You!!!

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HPM Radojewski Schafer von Leverkusen, Lohmar, Germany — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:42:22 GMT

I am an artist in Germany. Doing Imaging Art electronic painting from screen to canvas. I can show my works in this interactive way much more intuitive as by a relatively static slide show.
I like to engage it right now.

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Alan Sheets, Loveland CO — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:58:15 GMT

It is an OK toy, but it would be far more interesting if it could extrapolate new views and camera angles based on existing data.

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Frank, Dallas, TX — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:37:39 GMT

Pretty neat. I could zoom in so far that I could easily make out individual tiles on the shuttle, yet zoom out so far that it appeared to be more than a mile away. The camera the shots were taken with must be pretty impressive.