Some of ye might be interested in this demonstration of Seadragon & Photosynth Technologies currently being developed my Microsoft Live Labs. I highly recommend the jaw dropping photosynth tech demo (second link below).
Blaise Aguera y Arcas’s short-but-astonishing demo of his Seadragon and Photosynth technologies:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129
Here’s a link to the actual photosynth tech demo (amazing):
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/view.html?collection=sanmarco/index1
Just think of the possibilities for level design and related areas of game development and the net result of combining applications like this with Surface.
Cheers,
Ian