December 2nd, 2009 — DeepZoom, Silverlight
Starting today you can access Bing Maps via a new Silverlight interface by visiting this Bing Maps Beta URL
In addition to all of the standard Bing Map features the Silverlight interface seamlessly blends between map, satellite, and birds eye views. It also offers context sensitive links to Photosynths, online photo galleries and points of interest.
November 19th, 2009 — DeepZoom, Seadragon, WPF
Microsoft Live Labs Pivot is amazing. Anyone have an invite? I’m really looking forward tto when they open this up and 3rd party developers can create collections.
Edit: I received an invite about an hour after I filled out the invite form.
December 22nd, 2008 — DeepZoom
DeepZoom composer has been updated to version 0.9.000.6 this weekend.
The build includes:
December 18th, 2008 — Dashboard, DeepZoom, Silverlight
The Microsoft Health CUI group had launched a new build of their Patient Journey Demonstrator. This is a Silverlight Dashboard demonstrating a rich user interface for healthcare providers.
The Microsoft Health Common User Interface Patient Journey Demonstrator is a vehicle for Microsoft thought leadership in state-of-the-art user experience for healthcare applications. It provides exemplar implementations of Microsoft Health CUI guidance on a Microsoft platform.
The latest release has some great new features and is worth checking out. Some highlights from this release include:
Clinical Noting using Health Language
This feature uses an innovative interface to aid in composing notes about patient history
Highlighting and Annotating Deep Zoom
This is an awesome feature. A healthcare provider can examine patient charts using DeepZoom and add annotations that act like bookmarks.
Help and Guidance
I’m sure there are many more that I’ve missed. The Microsoft Health CUI blog has more information.
December 16th, 2008 — DeepZoom, Silverlight, WPF
The website for the Renault Laguna Coupe is full out Silverlight. Check it out at www.laguna-coupe.com. Nice clean design and great use of DeepZoom and Video.
December 15th, 2008 — DeepZoom, Silverlight
Mark Dawson, the creator of Kit3D a 3D graphics engine written for Microsoft Silverlight, has ported the Photosynth viewer from Direct 3D to Silverlight. The Silverlight version of the application uses Deep Zoom for getting in tight and Kit3D for the spatial rendering.
You can visit this link to get a random collection in the Silverlight Viewer. Hint, press the T key to see the triangles used in the Affine Texture Mapping.
December 14th, 2008 — DeepZoom
Holy crap, Microsoft Live Labs has ported Seadragon to the iPhone. It’s available free from the iTunes App Store and it looks great! If you’re on your iPhone search the App Store for Seadragon Mobile.
I just downloaded it and the rendering is amazingly smooth.
The app comes with links to some sample collections and a way to browse and search Photosynth user collections. Setup allows you to point it to your own DeepZoom collection, a Photosynth User’s profile, or an RSS feed.
Checkout the screenshots and video:
December 12th, 2008 — DeepZoom, Silverlight
Felix Wang has created an awesome Silverlight app called Mooncake that auto generates DeepZoom collections from your Flickr (or other) web galleries. It has a really slick interface, great transitions and nice attention to detail on everything from the menus to the loading animations. You can see an example collection on Felix’s blog.
I have 2 URL’s for Mooncake and am not sure why. This one is open http://mooncake.nxmix.com/ This one requires you to setup an account http://redmooncake.net/ and I think is the ‘real’ app.
