Microsoft removing Imagined Geographies?

Just came across an interesting paper that focuses on their still in development software PhotoSynth.  You can read the paper and also see the TED lecture on PhotoSynth in the links below but just have a quick think as well about the possibilties for this to remove the postcard perfect images most people have in their minds about places.  This software allows millions of users images to be combined to create an extremely thourough portrayal of what a place is really like.  Imagined images of the Pyramids in Egypt for example would no longer just have the classic empty desert aesethtic and be focused more on the reality with the mass of markets and people milling all around -as long as someone actually included these visuals in ateast one of their images of course and did not just focus on getting that oft replicated postcard scene

PhotoTourism: Still photography in Motion by Rob Knies

Blaise Aguera y Arcas’s Photosynth demo at TED

Dave

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