A Yuletide Apocalypse

Seadragon (the underlying technology): “It’s an environment in which you can, either locally or remotely, interact with immense amounts of visual data.”

Photosynth (the product): “So what this is really doing is, discovering, it’s creating hyperlinks, if you will, between images. And it’s doing that based on the content of the images. And that’s really exciting when you think about the richness of the semantic images that a lot of those images have” [like the text appearing alongside an image on a webpage, content which then becomes linked to any images found to be related visually]

See the full talk by Baise Agüera y Arcas (at TED2007). (video is 9:27 long and worth every second!)

EDIT: OH, wtF!? I went to try out the web demo and I get THIS:

Windows XP SP2 and Vista Only

The Photosynth technology preview runs only on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista.

Are you kidding me?