Wow. The potential with such of thing is amazing!
Just imagine hose shopping online, something like this should be much
more immersive to viewing rooms from a computer than using QuickTime VR
like most sites do today. The idea of walking around a 3D image of a
real place using "textures" based off of real photos is cool.
These days, my wife and I see a model home and we take a few photos and
then when we get home, she models the rooms in Maya or 3D Studio Max to see how the walls
would look like with different colors or where would be best place to
place all the furniture. Granted, she's a 3D artist...so something like
this might help the none 3D graphics types do something like this
pretty easily.
Heck, imagine a later version that can render super detailed 3D models
from 2D photos. It could used for some game development or maybe
someday even 3D holographic entertainment....okay, now I'm jumping
ahead.
Fun stuff! I can't wait to see more.
