The web has been abuzz lately over Apple’s awesome Matrix-style app wall at WWDC, which displays 20,000 of the platform’s most popular applications in a dense, moving grid. It’s certainly a sight to behold, but while it’s been covered pretty extensively across the web, some iPhone app developers who missed WWDC are still left asking, “I wonder if I’m on there”. Here’s your chance to check.
Developers Andres Douglas and Greg Pascale (who was behind the iSynth application) have taken a whopping 273 photos of the App Wall and used them to build a virtual recreation using Microsoft Photosynth. Photosynth was one of the cooler things to come out of Microsoft Live Labs, allowing users to stich together hundreds (or more) of photos to build virtual worlds out of static photographs.
The Synth works pretty well — you can zoom in and get an up close view of much of the wall so you should be able to check if your app is on there, and zipping through the different zoom levels is fun. But it isn’t quite perfect, as all of the photos were taken using an iPhone’s relatively low resolution camera, and there are some chunks missing.
To remedy this issue, Douglas and Pascale are asking for high-res photos from other developers who attended the conference, which they’ll use to create a much higher quality version of the synth, hopefully with every single application visible on it. If you’ve got photos of the wall, head over to this Drop.io account and upload your images. Don’t worry if you’ve only taken a shot of a portion of the wall, as Photosynth can stitch pieces from other photos together.
You can find embeds the of the synth on the iSynth website here, or a larger version at the Silverlight Photosynth viewer here.
A nice touched image.
This wall of iPhone apps is very useful–a simple way to check all of the apps released for iPhone. Thanks Jason for the info, I’m checking the wall and hoping to find apps that I’ve not known yet.
Could some one please have a high resolution video which record each individual panel?
That’s funny. Using Microsoft Technology to highlight an Apple creation. Say it isn’t so!
I wouldn’t be too surprised if his next update for his app will get rejected by Apple…
Very funny and useful
Found my app!
http://skitch.c.../where-s-my-app
http://skitch.c...2qm/there-it-is
Now they just need to hotlink all the icons to the app store entries for those apps.
Where (when) can I get the screensaver?
That is just plain cool.
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It would be better if Cooliris made it into a complete image wall. Their wall has a better user interface I think.
It would be cool if you could see each icon close up with the description of the app next to it… ahh the possibilities.
iSynth is pretty cool to use to look at the synths, but its kinda weak that you can’t make them on the phone. Check out Mosaica, they let you make something like that on the phone http://m.osaica.com It seems to work pretty well, they went to WWDC and made one of the front of the moscone center.
Wow, this does look cool. When watching this i think they should have also added the sound of a cash register going ‘Ka-Ching’.
Pure money being made and it’s only going to get bigger.
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