How they took thousands of photos from Flickr and generate the experience of being at a famous place?

By using a new 3D generation software allowing to manipulate all these photos in a similar environment giving the illusion of seamless transition and even 3D visualization of the object.

“The collaborative research team from the University of Washington and Microsoft Research who only two years ago in 2006 published their paper “Photo Tourism” and their technology demonstration “Photosynth” have again pushed the boundaries of what can be achieved by intuitively processing the abundance of digital images shared on the web.

This week at SIGGRAPH 2008 they’re sharing with the world some even better technology they’ve been working on which they call “Finding Paths through the World’s Photos“.”

Mindblowing! Make sure to watch it until the end!!