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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: CDvd on April 11, 2005, 07:18:25 am

Title: OT : Microsoft's Media Browser (using Longhorn's 3D advanced graphics)
Post by: CDvd on April 11, 2005, 07:18:25 am

If you use MC for organizing and viewing your digital photos (and even if not), you may find it interesting :

(blurry and low res wmv video, sorry)

(http://mario.bross.free.fr/MCStuffs/forum/mediabrowser2.jpg) (http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/d/e/8deab467-6e84-4757-8371-162adf6d14b9/kevin_schofield_2004_MediaBrowser_demo.wmv)


This shows the impressive potential of the Longhorn's graphics (Avalon), used in a media browsing context.
I don't know if this app will be packed in Longhorn when it will be out (2006).


(link found from this thread http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=14349)

David.

Title: Re: OT : Microsoft's Media Browser (using Longhorn's 3D advanced graphics)
Post by: CDvd on April 11, 2005, 09:00:31 am

By the way ....
What does "Animated Direct3D file browsing" mean?

(that's listed under the MC11 improvements in each new build post)

Title: Re: OT : Microsoft's Media Browser (using Longhorn's 3D advanced graphics)
Post by: CDvd on April 11, 2005, 10:25:25 am

Listened to video and the application seems to include very advenced features :

- Similaritudes detection (?)
- Face detection (detects if there are human faces in the photo : ??)
- Face recognition (?)

I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong... (I thought that theses sort of features were impossible, so I'm stunned)

Title: Re: OT : Microsoft's Media Browser (using Longhorn's 3D advanced graphics)
Post by: The Illest Villain on April 11, 2005, 11:06:13 pm

Thats pretty impressive.

Title: Re: OT : Microsoft's Media Browser (using Longhorn's 3D advanced graphics)
Post by: Mastiff on April 12, 2005, 02:02:31 am

Looks a lot like what the girl in Jurassic Park navigates on the Unix system... I won't be in a hurry to upgrade. I prefer lists with icons for efficiency. Eye candy is fun...for just about five minutes.