Hypercognition

Voici Viewfinder une façon de géolocaliser nos images sur Google Earth. Voici quelques extraits du site Internet Viewfinder.

There is something almost cosmic about flying around in Google Earth. It allows world travel at lightning speed. It cultivates a sense of global awareness on a visceral level. And it places you in a reference frame akin to astral projection, ultimately altering your perception of the planet, and of yourself.

… (un petit résumé de la tendance actuelle…)

* Google Earth has posed several hundred photos in Google Earth and has 4.5 million geo-located more photos to go;
* Microsoft PhotoSynth has an impressive way of automatically combining sets of photos from the same area but with no underlying 3D model and cannot handle most photos taken under arbitrary conditions;
* Yahoo Flickr taps the power of the community to create and organize an enormous free-for-all database but has no 3D world models.

Our goal is to provide a means by which members of a non-expert community can pose, view, and share their photos inside a 3D world model such as Google Earth