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Mix08 - Silverlight 2 "Deep Zoom" live at Hard Rock Memorabilia Site

There was an astounding demo during the Mix08 keynote this morning showcasing Silverlight "Deep Zoom" technology. The best part is you can check it out for yourself right now. Head over to the Hard Rock Memorabilia site and you'll have to install Silverlight 2 (only takes a moment).

Then you'll see this page with a few hundred high resolution photos from the Hard Rock memorabilia collection. Simply use your mouse to zoom in. I mean REALLY zoom in...

Check it out:

The main page where you can just zoom and fly around to various photos:

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In this screenshot, I've selected "Bo Didley" on the left hand side (also note the navigation tips if you need them)

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Here I zoomed in a bit on one of the guitars in order to check out the autograph

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Here I just kept zoom zoom zooming right in and as you can see, you can get right up close

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Extremely close! This is crazy... Check out the spring coils! Amazing...

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Posted: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 5:38 PM by stoey
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Comments

Yasser Makram said:

I could not find any documentation on how to implement Deep Zoom, and after some hacking, I could create a basic working sample at http://www.silverlightrecipes.com/2008/03/silverlight-20-deep-zoom-using.html

# March 6, 2008 10:16 AM

Noticias externas said:

This one rocked.  Ryan talks about it here:  http://blogs.msdn.com/stoey/archive/2008/03/05

# March 6, 2008 3:03 PM

Ryan Storgaard's Blog said:

Aside from all the exciting stuff at the Mix08 conference, it was entertaining for me to watch Mark/Daniel/Crow

# March 11, 2008 3:34 PM

Noticias externas said:

Aside from all the exciting stuff at the Mix08 conference, it was entertaining for me to watch Mark/Daniel

# March 11, 2008 3:40 PM
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