Every morning while having my breakfast, instead of reading the newspaper or watching tv like regular people, I often go online to read the news and check the latest updates on some blogs. My current favorites include problogger, Wired Top Headlines and lifehacker, while also following a few through iGoogle about areas I’m interested in such as photography, languages and coding.

Today lifehacker recommended a tool for embedding a flickr slideshow on your site, problogger looked at why you should attract RSS Subscribers, while Wired look at how some new Virtual Reality applications (someone told me a couple of years back that VR is dead, and that Augmented Reality is what we should talk about - still not much has changed on that front) use techniques seen in Sci-Fi movie Bladerunner to zoom in on image objects and rotate them. The topic in Wired sounds very much like my MSc thesis, so it caught my eye a bit extra for that reason - early in the thesis process, there was even talk of me and my thesis partner going to one of those conventions in the US and present our project. In the end we both had jobs though, and the idea ran out like sand in the hourglass…

In the article from Wired I notice that MS haven’t been able to solve more of the image to 3D than I did during the thesis project, so I’m still not behind in that field of science. The main difference between their successful project and what I did in the thesis is that they use hundreds of images to create a 3D model, which is fairly simple - with few images it’s much more difficult, something I’ll probably describe here in the future. I heard about the product while at work last week, but then thought they had solved how to create 3D from only one image - but since this was not the case I’m still not impressed…

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