Last week at ARE2011 Blaise Aguera y Arcas and Avi Bar-Zeev gave two talks that got my attention. The Read/Write World initiative from Bing. This is interesting from a number of angles:
RML - Reality Markup Language
RML is a markup language for describing the shape, location, and content of the world (and images of it). All the details are not posted yet but supposedly supports transforms between views, images, video, panoramas, geo etc. Worth checking in to see where this goes in the near future.
Open Source Viewers
The demo apps show some interesting ways of viewing content. The project will contain HTML5 based viewers available under open source licenses. Again, worth checking in on later.
Services
Hosted by Bing, services will include indexing, matching between images (e.g. homographies), 20GB of storage and possibly other image and video services.
All in all it looks ambitious and very interesting. Not much to see right now but definitely a project to keep an eye on and check out in a few months time.
RML - Reality Markup Language
RML is a markup language for describing the shape, location, and content of the world (and images of it). All the details are not posted yet but supposedly supports transforms between views, images, video, panoramas, geo etc. Worth checking in to see where this goes in the near future.
Open Source Viewers
The demo apps show some interesting ways of viewing content. The project will contain HTML5 based viewers available under open source licenses. Again, worth checking in on later.
Services
Hosted by Bing, services will include indexing, matching between images (e.g. homographies), 20GB of storage and possibly other image and video services.
All in all it looks ambitious and very interesting. Not much to see right now but definitely a project to keep an eye on and check out in a few months time.