Mon 19 Jan 2009
The Obama Inauguration and The Moment
Posted by Marlow Harris under News & Media, Politics, Real Estate
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• Our friend David Gedye, who is always leading projects he cooks up with mind blowing results, just sent us an email for his newest project, a collaboration with CNN and Photosynth for an ambitious presidential inauguration project. He writes:
You’ll be interested to know that I’m on my way to Washington DC to help CNN with an ambitious presidential inauguration project that we cooked up a month ago.
The idea is to use Photosynth (the 3D photo technology I’ve been working on for the last few years) to capture the exact moment when the President-Elect becomes the President. We are using about 10 CNN photographers and thousands of people in the crowd, who are being asked to send us their photo of “the moment”.
If all goes well there will be a “synth” on the CNN website a few hours after the inauguration, and if it’s great, they will show it on their big Magic Wall on their TV broadcast sometime during the afternoon or evening of inauguration day. CNN is promoting the project on air already, so if you tune in today you’ll see graphics for “The Moment”, and Photosynth being demonstrated by Tom Foreman.
Exciting stuff! You can see how CNN is promoting it at http://cnn.com/themoment
• You may remember the post that my husband wrote for UnusualLife.com with the video embedded of the Synth that David Gedye did of our living room for the Photosynth release Demo/How-To video last August. Here is a link to the article with the video.
I am hoping that Photosynth will be adopted and used more in the real estate industry, as it’s a natural fit for our business.



The Moment by CNN is amazing! While watching the live coverage and seeing them using it action is AWESOME. I’m actually surprised that Windows has released a product that I’ve actually liked lately! Nice job.
Everybody has a lot of expectation from this change. Let’s see if he is able to keep up to the expectations. Keeping our fingers crossed, let us hope the change is for the betterment of the mankind.
I am rarely excited with Microsoft Products but this was really cool… I can’t wait to try it and see how creatively it can be implemented with personal photos and Virtual tours.
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