Microsoft's Mobicast is PhotoSynth for real-time videos

New Scientist is reporting that Microsoft's Cairo, Egypt lab has a created a way to combine cell phone videos of the same scene, from multiple sources, into a single video; and they can do it in real-time. They are calling it Mobicast, and it will allow them to create live broadcasts of streaming video from multiple angles.  The idea is very similar to PhotoSynth, but applied to video. Let's say there are two people recording video of the Macy's day parade with their cell phones.  Read full story...


 


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