Scott, Scott and Tim were among the first to blog about today’s big news – Miguel de Icaza’s announcement that Moonlight 1.0 is live! It’s a pretty impressive achievement, which I hope to write more about once I have installed and played with it myself.
However, hidden in Miguel’s post was something else I thought was just as cool — Barack Obama’s inauguration Photosynth The Moment was shown in Moonlight (not just on Photosynth)… wha!?
I thought this was a massive ‘discovery’. Photosynth previously had a custom viewer install that only ran on Windows… and now it’s on Linux?!
Turns out ScottGu did ‘announce’ this, back in January (don’t know how I missed it)
CNN and MSNBC are both launching Photosynth viewers that will … combine pictures … to create an interactive Photosynth experience of the event using Silverlight’s built-in DeepZoom feature to deliver an amazing 3D viewing of it.
Check out the difference between the plug-in version (view synth):
and the Silverlight version (view synth and object tag):
Very similar – all the Silverlight version is missing is the ‘control point cloud’ that you see holding down Ctrl in the embedded viewer. more here
As of this week the Silverlight viewer supports the point cloud. Yay!