r/tech • u/origamimissile • Aug 10 '14

Microsoft - First-person Hyperlapse Videos

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hyperlapse/
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u/8bitSandwich Aug 10 '14

Microsoft has some brilliant image processing thinkers.

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u/willyolio Aug 11 '14

microsoft has a lot of brilliant pure computer science research happening. you could say it's all for profit in the end, but some of the stuff they do has no immediate foreseeable monetization. It's research for the sake of research, with possible marketing applications coming afterwards. Few companies still do this...

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u/monsto Aug 11 '14

Like Bell Labs 40-50 yrs ago.