Photosynth and Silverlight

Photosynth

Microsoft just released this, and I think it is incredibly cool stuff. It is reminiscent of Make3D and DeepZoom.

In fact, although you have to download a separate plug-in to actually run Photosynth, by the looks of it I am fairly sure that they used Silverlight on the back-end with DeepZoom.

Anyways, what do you guys think?

I think this is really cool technology, and more specifically I think Silverlight 2 is pretty awesome. It is a lot more programmer-friendly than Flash is (C# vs. ActionScript), and is really powerful. I can't wait until the release version comes out.

But yeah...if they aren't using Silverlight on the back-end of that Photosynth thing, I would be very surprised.

I just wish they woudl stop spammign me with popups every time i log on to an MSDN page, If I wanted silverlight I would have downloaded it by now.

Silverlight is getting annoying for me too. And there is another popup every other time asking me to fill out some customer satisfaction survey. Not a good way to get good responses for a survey.

I press "Install Photosynth" and get an 404 popup... ( address is: http://www.photosynth.com/undefined )

And now even the site won't load anymore because it redirects to "http://www.default.aspx/" which, of course, does not exist.

Ive been gettign a lot fo 404's lately, i think they screwed somethign up on teh last update.

I thought the image quality was pretty low and the moving though the images jerky. I wasn't that impressed.