I was hoping Microsoft would turn this into a product.

They did bring Cliplets[1] and eventually the Cinemagraph app for Windows Phones[2], but neither of those have any intelligence to them.

The only benefit they provide over a video editor is that you can paint a mask to specify the area of the video to loop. The loops still turn out jumpy, unless you do all the manual work, as mentioned in the article itself.

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/clip...

[2] http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/lumia-cinemagrap...

The automated video looping paper is a fascinating one… much better … however it's patented. Anybody knows what is the position of Microsoft about the patents they own and describe in their research paper ?

You could try contacting them through Twitter about that

I have done that, their email is on their papers … no reply

Chrome blocked me from downloading loopFindr as malicious.