'“What we’re doing,” Mr. Johnson said, “is fulfilling the wish that all of us have to make reality to our liking.”'

"Our approach takes as input a large set of community or personal photos, reconstructs camera viewpoints, and automatically computes orbits, panoramas, canonical views, and optimal paths between views. The scene can then be interactively browsed in 3D using these controls or with five degree-of-freedom free-viewpoint control."