--- description: Smoothing out the jittery, choppy first-person video footage you'd normally see captured and sped up from the likes of a wearable camera title: Hyperlapse: Microsoft Fixes Shaky Time-lapse Videos image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Microsoft Fixes Shaky Time-lapse Videos with Hyperlapse Technology by [Doug Aamoth](/author/doug-aamoth/) ## Doug Aamoth Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 12, 2014 1:49 PM CUT by [Doug Aamoth](/author/doug-aamoth/) ## Doug Aamoth Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 12, 2014 1:49 PM CUT Not unlike the elderly, time-lapse videos can be boring and shaky. Microsoft has cobbled together technology that can smooth out the jittery, choppy first-person video footage you’d normally see captured and sped up from the likes of a wearable GoPro camera. The feature is called [Hyperlapse](http://blogs.microsoft.com/next/2014/08/11/hyperlapse-siggraph-2014/ "undefined") and it’s being demonstrated at the [SIGGRAPH media conference](http://s2014.siggraph.org/ "undefined") in Vancouver on Tuesday. I could sit here and try to explain in words how it all works and how the end result looks, but you and I both know that I’m going to drop a video into the middle of this post riiight… abooout… here: Couple thoughts: A) It looks pretty great and B) I need to do more outdoor activities. These guys are rock climbing and riding bikes in their spare time. I just binge-watched a bunch of _Love It or List It Too_ episodes that I’ve already seen before. There’s a great money-quote from [Microsoft’s blog post](http://blogs.microsoft.com/next/2014/08/11/hyperlapse-siggraph-2014/ "undefined") on the project as well: --- > “” --- See? You learn about the technology and then you’re rewarded with some hallucination. As for when people like you and me might be able to get our hands on this Hyperlapse technology in order to cut together our own sweet time-lapse videos — imagine watching me watch 10 hours of _Love It or List It Too_ in amazing Hyperlapse — the researchers say they’ve managed to streamline the rendering process so that it can be done on a single computer. There’s no hard-and-fast timeframe for its release, though the researchers say the goal is to “eventually” release it to the public. \[[TechCrunch](http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/10/new-microsoft-project-turns-boring-first-person-videos-into-awesome-hyperlapse-sequences/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3103468/microsoft-time-lapse-hyperlapse/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3103468/microsoft-time-lapse-hyperlapse/"},"headline":"Microsoft Fixes Shaky Time-lapse Videos with Hyperlapse Technology","datePublished":"2014-08-12T13:49:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:02:56.645Z","description":"Smoothing out the jittery, choppy first-person video footage you'd normally see captured and sped up from the likes of a wearable camera","url":"https://time.com/3103468/microsoft-time-lapse-hyperlapse/","keywords":["Tech","Innovation","Microsoft","video"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Doug Aamoth","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/doug-aamoth/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3103468/microsoft-time-lapse-hyperlapse/","name":"Microsoft Fixes Shaky Time-lapse Videos with Hyperlapse Technology"}}]}] ```