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		alaskamiller on July 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Autodesk Buys Socialcam for $60M No, you can't. Is Hacker News crowded out by kids these days? Autodesk of now is a collection of products and companies that vary from CAD software to online photo editing to 3D Studio Max to Maya and a variety of video filter and processing. Think about that for a second. They make professional grade video finishing software. Socialcam is a casual video sharing community with a variety of video finishing processes available.

natrius on July 17, 2012 | [–]

"Is Hacker News crowded out by kids these days?"

I don't think Autodesk's plans are self-evident enough for this sort of thing.

upwardbound on July 17, 2012 | [–]

Also, autodesk is getting into photogrammetry -- using photo and video recordings from mobile devices as the lowest-friction way to do 3D scanning.

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