We are happy to announce the beta release of a project we have been working on for a while now with our friends at ETH Zurich.
It is called Shooting Star and an attempt at complementing our mobile applications with a web tool for a novel use case. Shooting Star uses our image recognition expertise to simplify photo management. It recognizes landmarks and places in your holiday snaps and automatically labels and tags the photos accordingly. Watch the video to learn more:
As you can see, the kind of annotation we bring to photos in fact creates a kind of augmented reality for your personal photo collection. Interesting things in the pictures are highlighted, and related information such as Wikipedia articles is only a mouse click away.
The full power of Shooting Star unleashes if you are a Flickr user. Shooting Star integrates very nicely with Flickr, as shown in the following video:
The product is a closed beta release, and is an experiment for us to start collecting feedback early in the product development process. We believe that photo management is another space, where image recognition provides huge value for end-users. You will hear more about this from us in the near future.
Now hurry and get an invite for the beta under http://www.shootingstarapp.com. As all great things in life, invites for Shooting Star are limited.