<story><title>Hyperlapse, Instagram&apos;s new video stabilization app</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/08/hyperlapse-instagrams-new-app-is-like-a-15000-video-setup-in-your-hand</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davidu</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s weird that they called it Hyperlapse two weeks after Microsoft Research published a paper on the exact same topic, with the exact same name:&lt;p&gt;PDF here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hyperlapse/paper/hyperlapse.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;research.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;um&amp;#x2F;redmond&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;hyp...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Examples here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hyperlapse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;research.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;um&amp;#x2F;redmond&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;hype...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s even more weird that the WIRED writer didn&amp;#x27;t mention this. It was major news all over the place two weeks ago.  Good PR folks at Instagram &amp;#x2F; FB.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smackfu</author><text>&amp;gt;It&amp;#x27;s even more weird that the WIRED writer didn&amp;#x27;t mention this. It was major news all over the place two weeks ago. Good PR folks at Instagram &amp;#x2F; FB&lt;p&gt;This article seems like an exclusive that Wired got, probably been in the works for ages and timed for the release date.&lt;p&gt;Fine line between this kind of thing and just letting the company write the article themselves (aka &amp;quot;native advertising&amp;quot;.)</text></comment>
<story><title>Hyperlapse, Instagram&apos;s new video stabilization app</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/08/hyperlapse-instagrams-new-app-is-like-a-15000-video-setup-in-your-hand</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davidu</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s weird that they called it Hyperlapse two weeks after Microsoft Research published a paper on the exact same topic, with the exact same name:&lt;p&gt;PDF here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hyperlapse/paper/hyperlapse.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;research.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;um&amp;#x2F;redmond&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;hyp...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Examples here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hyperlapse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;research.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;um&amp;#x2F;redmond&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;hype...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s even more weird that the WIRED writer didn&amp;#x27;t mention this. It was major news all over the place two weeks ago.  Good PR folks at Instagram &amp;#x2F; FB.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>izendejas</author><text>I was using Instagram Hyperlapse before the MSR paper was published. It came out of a Hackathon project at Facebook.&lt;p&gt;And yes, the concept existed well before both.&lt;p&gt;Note: FB employee.</text></comment>