{"id":202,"date":"2007-06-19T15:34:50","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T15:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/microsoft-research-hdview\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T15:42:19","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T15:42:19","slug":"microsoft-research-hdview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/microsoft-research-hdview\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Research: HDView, viewer for Gigapixel Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s some really interesting stuff coming out of <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/research\/downloads\/default.aspx\">Microsoft Research<\/a> at the moment. I&#8217;ve already talked about <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.live.com\/photosynth\">Photosynth <\/a>on this blog which is an incredible technology. Microsoft have also just released into beta a new high definition panoramic viewer that can handle pictures as large as several gigapixels. Here&#8217;s a video explaining how this technology works, much like <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.live.com\/photosynth\">PhotoSynth <\/a>I suspect it&#8217;s possibly also based on <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.live.com\/Seadragon.aspx\">Seadragon<\/a> &#8230; the results are stunning:<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/images.soapbox.msn.com\/flash\/soapbox1_1.swf\" quality=\"high\" width=\"432\" height=\"364\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" flashvars=\"c=v&#038;v=cd33337c-5d6e-446d-a446-6105d911caaf\" ><\/embed><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/soapbox.msn.com\/video.aspx?vid=cd33337c-5d6e-446d-a446-6105d911caaf\" target=\"_new\" title=\"Creating and Viewing Gigapixel Images\">Video: Creating and Viewing Gigapixel Images<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can try out HDView for yourselves, <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/ivm\/HDView.htm\">here<\/a> &#8211; You do have to download the plugin and it only works on XP\/Vista using Internet Explorer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s some really interesting stuff coming out of Microsoft Research at the moment. I&#8217;ve already talked about Photosynth on this blog which is an incredible technology. Microsoft have also just released into beta a new high definition panoramic viewer that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/microsoft-research-hdview\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[102,103,386,101,100],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","tag-hdview","tag-imaging","tag-microsoft","tag-photosynth","tag-seadragon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}