Perfectly matching snapshots - in - progress with a photograph taken in the same spot a hundred years ago is an awesome idea . Turns out , it ’s kind of hard . But Adobe and MIT havefigured out a wayto make it happen more accurately .
They ’re using a robotics proficiency called visual homing , normally used to transport machines to a specific locating , like a excite station , in their raw software . The program compares your camera ’s persuasion to love historical trope and will give you positioning and zoom instructions so you may best equalize the scene , improving on the service propose by current apps likeStreetMuseumand site likehistorypin .
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Right now , the app pass on a laptop computer , but the idea is that it ’ll run straightaway on digital cameras , letting you view the past while shooting the present . Sounds like a killer augment reality app waiting to befall . [ New Scientist ]
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