Link to download SeaDragon Mobile free from the iTunes App store
Video: Using SeaDragon Mobile on the iPhone
(Length: 5 minutes 44 seconds)
What is SeaDragon Mobile?
SeaDragon Mobile is a free application available at present only for the iPhone and iPod Touch that lets you explore and deep zoom in and out of collections of gigapixel images over the web smoothly without any irritating time lags. There are 50 sample images that are included with the application for you to enjoy. Besides that, you can add content through other Photosynth users and RSS feeds such as Flickr and Deep Zoom Content.
More about SeaDragon?
SeaDragon is a Microsoft Live labs project and is also at the core technology behind the Photosynth photo browsing program. Here’s a interesting TED Talk video SeaDragon and PhotoSynth you can watch if interested.
What is a gigapixel image?
A gigapixel image is a digital image bitmap composed of one billion pixels (that’s more than 150 times the information captured by a 6 megapixel digital camera).
Is SeaDragon Mobile available for my phone?
If you’re phone is the iPhone or you own an iPod touch, yes. At present, SeaDragon mobile is available only for these devices.
Where can I download the SeaDragon Mobile from? And for how much?
SeaDragon can be downloaded for free from the iTunes App store.
Why did Microsoft release SeaDragon on the iPhone/ iPod Touch instead of a Windows Mobile phone?
This is how Alex Daley, group product manager for Microsoft Live Labs, reasons it:
The iPhone is the most widely distributed phone with a (graphics processing unit). Most phones out today don’t have accelerated graphics in them. The iPhone does and so it enabled us to do something that has been previously difficult to do. I couldn’t just pick up a BlackBerry or a Nokia off the shelf and build Seadragon for it without GPU support.