Help! Quick! I have no audio. Is this as cool as they say?
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
High Res pictures of the FNL dvd box - with lists of the deleted scenes.
Is this as cool as they say?
Yeah.
Um... wow.
OK, they just typed "Notre Dame Cathedral" into an image search (Flicker) and it automatically created a 3-D image of the cathedral that you can move around in, zoom in, etc. And if there's metadata available, you could zoom into a saint and it would tell you who the saint is.
To see it is much more amazing than it can be described....
Very cool. Astonishingly cool.
("mind-bogglingly" - is that a word? that one can say out loud?)
Yeah, but not 10 times fast.
Yeah, my mind is more or less blown.
Imagine something like Google Street View, but it can be manipulated and hyperlinked to something else, using all the public Flickr photos on that database.
It's just... it's like the world of Second Life, but it's our world.
Seriously, that was the coolest demo thing I've seen in years. The phrase "This changes everything" might be a slight exaggeration; then again, it might not be.
It crashed my browser.
It crashed my browser.
Oh well. In the great march towards the World of Tomorrow, Tom gets left behind....
I went to the 21st Century, and all I got was a rock.