Today, I attended the Microsoft Inspiration Tour which was held at the university. Its aim was to expose the latest technology that Microsoft are currently working on. Among those discuss were Silverlight and XNA. I must say, i liked the silverlight stuff and i will definitely have a go at it. Silverlight are mainly used to create user-rich experience on the net. Below are some links to website that used Deepzoom(part of the silverlight)
DEEPZOOM
http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/
http://www.laguna-coupe.com/
http://www.xrez.com/yose_proj/yose_deepzoom/ClientBin/TestPage.html
http://www.kbb.com/kbb/PerfectCarFinder/PhotoEdition.aspx
http://robburke.net/images/deeplol.html
GAMES
http://linerider.com
http://www.popfly.com/users/Adam/Crayon%20Cannon
VIDEO
http://www.smoothhd.com/
http://kirill.uk.msn.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/trailers/jumper.html
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/trailers/vegas/default.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/default.aspx
The thing that really amazed me was that some of the website contain around 2000 pictures with each one of size 100Mb. YESSSSS, you've read it correctly, its 100MB. Now you must be wondering 2000x100mb(Thats pretty large to put on the website). Basically silverlight kinda create many panels for each images and it sends only what the user is looking at(hence reducing the resolution to a very lower value). And would you believe that all these was created in just 10-20 minutes!!!!
Well dont mix up things that i wrote in my previous post on Open Source but i really liked the silverlight technology.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Microsoft Inspiration Tour
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such huge pics :S
100mb :o
i guess it ws damn good :)
Ey, 100mb?? Ah franchment, c'est vraiment stupefiant!! Well, By the way 100mb to reduced size of how much?
The actual size of the image remains 100mb itself(this is not sent to the client). What happens is that when you keep zooming, Silverlight only send the region being seen by the user quite fast. Its not like you send the whole image but only that part of the image which you are viewing in the browser. Well its not about the 100mb but how easily you do this DeepZoom in a short amount of time.
Try this: Go to http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/ and when the page loads completely (should install silverlight plugin) press V. A pic of 3 men with a guitar each will appear. After that, keep zooming OUT and you'll see the amazing effect.
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