Microsoft's first iPhone app: Live Labs releases Seadragon Mobile viewer

From TechFlash -

Microsoft Live Labs today becomes the first group inside the Redmond company to release an application for Apple's mobile phone, with its Seadragon Mobile, now available at the Apple App Store.

Seadragon Mobile is a free demo program meant to test the viability of the high-tech Seadragon photo-display technology on mobile platforms. It is best known as a core technology behind Microsoft's Photosynth photo-browsing program. It's designed for zooming smoothly in, out and around photos over the Internet, regardless of bandwidth constraints or image size. Seadragon's technological trick is to store images in multiple resolutions and deliver only the bits needed to present the view a user wants at any given moment.

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