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Bloody amazing! Fantastic work! Release it. Release it soon. This is something that everyone would want.

I see they have listed a Windows app coming. Is that Windows desktop app?

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If I were them I would offer this as a web service: upload your video and have it converted for $1.

$1 seems cheap.

The processing is quite cheap for a company with its own datacenters and computation clusters. Not so cheap for an individual though. So a user could pay a dollar while Microsoft is only spending pennies.

I think fastball is talking about the value proposition. Capitalism would suggest a higher price point I'd imagine.

Embed it in OneDrive - let you apply it to your saved videos and add a watermark to it ("Hyperlapse Beta").

That's obviously the most useful solution for us. Don't know if that's the best solution for microsoft. I'm surprised there weren't a bunch of logos and catch phrases like "Only on windows" or "powered by Microsoft!"

They said they'll offer it as a windows app, and I imagine it's for very corporate reasons.

Historically, Microsoft Research has been very disconnected from Microsoft corporate and don't position/frame their work in terms of a profit motive. Their work sometimes influences or filters its way into Microsoft products, but I've never seen them do anything like what you're suggesting.

Someone above mentioned the processing took weeks. So.. I'm not sure that would work.

Well, the first version took weeks. I'm sure it will only get faster.

Probably, Microsoft ICE is another amazing piece of software from MS Research that they've released and kept updated over the years.

A desktop app, yes.

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