Some Silverlight Photosynths vacation pictures from India

Pictures from Jammu Kashmire made 3D in Photosynth.






Trucks trying to pass in the Ladakh mountains, they actually make it

SharePoint 2010 Silverlight Web Part, and why it is not a big deal

SharePoint 2010 Enhancements for End Users: New Silverlight Web Part & Improved UI for Adding Web Parts to a Page - SharePoint 2010 - Bamboo Nation



SharePoint 2010 Enhancements for End Users: New Silverlight Web Part & Improved UI for Adding Web Parts to a Page - SharePoint 2010 - Bamboo Nation

Bamboo Software, having seen the same demo as the rest of us, has ripped a few slides to make a piece promoting the Silverlight Web Part in 2010.

Well I have only seen the video demo from which the 2 screen grabs above come from. It seems to show that you have an OTB Silverligth Web Part, but all it does is let you place silverlight applications in your sharepoint page, not create or edit Silverlight with SharePoint content.

SharePoint can already do this, not only SharePoint 2007 but 2003 and I assume 2001. Let me show.



To prove I am not cheating I use a VM of Windows 2003 with WSS 2.0 running on Sun VirtualBox VM technology on Ubuntu Linux. The ultimate 'nothing up my sleeves kind of demo'. Here you see me installing Silverlight on the VM. (By the way this took significantly less time on VirtualBox than on VirtualPC).



I actually have created hundreds of Silverlights over the past year. Most went down with Popfly. But Photosynth is still there and seems to be growing. So I rip the silverlight Photosynth from my Photosynth.com page.



Now I just edit a simple content web editor web part.



Just past the URL for the Photosynth Silverlight in to the html editor



And you have a WSS 2.0 site running a rich silverlight 3-D photosynth.

So as it stands today the entire Silverlight Web Part in 2010 just streamlines function that already exists in in SharePoint 2003 and 2007.

Very disappointing.

What I wanted was something like Popfly that would allow Silverlight mashups of Sharepoint material for projects. As of right now you don't have that.

Photosynth - Garden Test Can You make out my garden? Use the highligts to see where major parts are.

Photosynth - Garden Test

An experiment in augmented reality. See if you can feel you are in the garden.

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Photosynth - slug and me a 3D self portrait of Robert Hooker by Gail Orenstein

Photosynth - slug and me

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Photosynth in Camden Town London

Photosynth in Camden Town London

Star Trek the Movie is Coming: With Microsoft Photosynth

Star Trek the Movie is Coming: With Microsoft Photosynth

A synth from Gail Orenstein photos. A pretty amazing experiment. I am happy to say that Photosynth now can be viewed via an install for Linux, so I can go nuts with my favorite tool and not have to regret the fact Linux users can't see it.

Photosynth from my vacation

Some Photosynths from my vacation to Instanbul



New Mosque



Grand Bazaar



Inside the Haga Sofia



Outside the Haga Sofia






Archaeology Museum (Arkeoloji Müzesi)


I took these with a blackberry. I was thinking that the new technology like photosynth means we need new kinds of cameras.

Photosynth of New Mosque in Istanbul

Photosynth of New Mosque in Istanbul

I love this 3-D technology. The thing is that 3-D VR technology and collaboration technology are still 2 separate items for Microsoft, whereas the 2 technologies work together in Second Life.

Mister Softee in Photosynth

The English love Ice Cream trucks. Here is one render 3-D with Microsoft Live Photosynth.

Harrod's with Microsoft Live Photosynth

Photosynth of Harrod's in London

Photosynth of my former pet rabbit

Here we can see, that when the subject sits still, Photosynth can give us a better feel of reality than photos.

Introducing Microsoft Labs Photosynth: 3-D made easy

Photosynth is perhaps the coolest tool from Microsoft Labs that nobody I meet seems to talk about. I have been making Photosynths of Second Life like this one since it is an easy environment to photograph.