This Thursday (October 25, 2007) is the 2nd Annual Chicagoland Innovation Summit,
presented by Innovate Now. Microsoft is
a sponsor and will have a large presence at the event. I will be on hand with
several of my colleagues and we will be demonstrating some very forward looking technology
that I feel is quite innovative. I thought it would be interesting to give a
“sneak peek” of some of the technologies that we will be showcasing at the event.
This is the second article, the first article was on Photosynth and
is located here.
Disclaimer
This blog entry describes technology that is currently still in the labs environment.
Microsoft’s intent with this type of technology is to build it into shipping products
or services that are delivered to you. There are no timelines or product plans
available at this time and there is always a chance that you may never see this technology
in a shipping product.
What is Seadragon?
Seadragon is a technology that greatly
enhances the viewing of images at different resolutions and different bandwidth speeds
regardless of the capabilities of the device that it is being viewed on. I have
talked with several people in the past couple of years about the quandary we are in
with our devices: some of our devices are getting bigger and some are getting smaller
and we want high quality on the device regardless of its size. I use the example
of seeing a 12 Megapixel photo on a large widescreen HD TV versus seeing the same
photo on your iPod or Zune. The Seadragon technologies will help to address
this quandary.
Want to see it in action?
Currently there is not a public preview of Seadragon that you can interact with on
the web. If you checked out the Photosynth preview, you have seen some of the
Seadragon technology in action (it is part of the overall demonstration). There
is a great video that shows a Seadragon preview from the most recent TED
conference embedded below (if you are reading this from a feed reader, you may
need to open it in a browser). We will be demoing a Seadragon client application
at the Chicagoland Innovation Summit.
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