Blaise Aguera y Arcas astonish us again
In 2007 (that is 3 years ago!) Blaise Aguera y Arcas, along with Microsoft, astonished us by presenting the Seadragon and Photosynth technology. It was, and still is very very impressing and embedded below.
On this years TED conference he was at it again – and – astonishing everyone again with an augmented reality “intelligent” map application. It is amazing what his team manage to develop!
The obvious competitor is Google Maps which probably has a better grip at the market. However, Google does not compete at all with the technology presented at TED – although they do have more users – and maybe an easier solution fitting more users?
Anyway – watch the talks if you haven’t yet.
I think Microsoft for the moment is a small step in the lead vs Google, however I am sure Google will try to catch up again, ie georeferencing images, video and creating 3D-models from this.
When will we get 3D-models created from video only?
For another interesting concept, showing how to create 3D-models automatically from a large amount of oblique images see the webpage http://www.c3technologies.com (this is the technology behind http://kart.finn.no and the 3D-view here)
Automatically created 3D-models from video would be great! However, that’s probably in the future.
I think the 3D-models obtained from oblique imagery is one step in this direction – and probably the two have different main goals?