After surfing through the Microsoft Live Labs website some more I’ve learned about a few different apps that are in the labs and being worked on as we speak.
Perhaps the most famous of them is the Photosynth application. This takes a collection of images from the same place and stitches them together into a sort of 3D virtual image of the location.
Another promising application appeared to be the Seadragon app. The goal behind this app is to be able to display information on any screen, clearly and almost effortlessly regardless of the screen size.
If this sounds a little …read more

Remember when Robert Scoble, was reduced to tears over something that he had gotten a peak of at Microsoft’s development teams? It turns out that the cause of all the eye leaking is now available to the public.
The Microsoft Research WorldWide Telescope (why can I not get David Letterman’s production company ‘Worldwide Pants’ out of my mind?).
I’m not so sure about being reduced to tears, but the effort is pretty daunting and Microsoft appears to have done a great job of delivering on a very expansive area.
WorldWide Telescope is created with the Microsoft® high performance Visual Experience Engine™ and …read more