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<\/a><\/p>\nIt all begins with some innocent tweets about a contest from DK<\/a> (actually, I found that the original source is Chester!). Then, among us, we started talking about forming a team. Finally, the team was formed, secretly with Chester<\/a>, DK<\/a> and myself<\/a>. We carried our conversation via email, MSN, Twitter, SMS and etc and attended the Launch of Photo360 contest at Microsoft on 13th March 2010.<\/p>\n So, we registered online and named our team, “Dee<\/a> DigITall<\/a> Lobang<\/a>” which is a combination of our 3 blog names. The registration cum start of competition day is on the 13th Mar at Microsoft office.<\/p>\n There were a quite number of people at the event. The idea about this contest is to create as many synth on tourist spots, heritage sites and etc to showcase Singapore to the World. Another important aspect of the contest is YOG (Youth Olympic Game) which will start from the 14th August 2010. Microsoft is trying to build a nice user experiences for people who wants to visit Singapore by visiting those Synth. With its interactive format and 3D scenes, it will be one of the kind of experience. And together with Bing Map, these Photosynths will be integrated into them.<\/p>\n It was a simple process to let you understand more about Photosynth, how you can create beautiful 360 degrees 3D scenes and of course, the outline of the contest.<\/p>\n Competition Rules and Guidelines Judging Elements<\/strong><\/p>\n We discussed our game plan after the event and narrowed down to Clarke Quay. In the afternoon, we received Chester’s MMS about a secret weapon..<\/p>\n We decided to meet the next day at Clarke Quay at 7:00am (to beat the tourist crowd) for the shoot. I was late and DK was early!<\/p>\n It was surprisingly a good day with nice weather. I love the Eco Roof at Clarke Quay.<\/p>\n Ok, as Chester is the master of the secret weapon, we were there to assist him. In fact, I just watch only la \ud83d\ude42 .<\/p>\n This is the first time we are showing off these pictures. We actually installed 3 Canon EOS DSLR onto the rig. We did a few trailers and teasers. Will come to that later.<\/p>\n Very serious look.<\/p>\n And the not so serious test shot.<\/p>\n And now, the positioning of the camera for the overlapping effect. This is important for a good synth. I am the one supporting the close ups so that the user can zoom into the area.<\/p>\n And there we go, we started to take pictures and at the end of the session, we took almost a thousand pics. We headed down to HackerSpace to analyse and uploaded the pictures to Photosynth.net.<\/p>\n Trust me, the Photosynth software will take out most of the juice of your computer. Luckily, we were using a Lenova Core i7 and it maxes out all 8-Threads of this 4-Core monster.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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