Microsoft's Mobicast stitches mobile video streams together in real time

As we start to get more of our news and event coverage from eyewitnesses with cellphone cameras, it makes sense to look at ways to get more information out of existing technology. That's what Microsoft Labs in Egypt has done with Mobicast, a system for stitching together multiple mobile video streams together in real time. Because the frame rate on most mobile video is very low, it's possible to combine the streams even over 3G.

Mobicast uses server-side software to match timestamps and put together images, so all the users have to do is take video. The end result is streamed to a website where viewers can watch the event in progress. Apparently, Microsoft is also working on a GPS-based way to identify people filming at the same event, for even richer footage.

[via TheNextWeb]

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