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Darren Straight
What is Microsoft’s Live Labs Photosynth?
Photosynth is an amazing new technology from Microsoft Live Labs that will change the way you think about digital photos forever.
Photosynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed 3-Dimensional space.
With Photosynth you can:
- walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any angle;
- seamlessly zoom in or out of a photograph even if it’s gigapixels in size;
- see where pictures were taken in relation to one another;
- find similar photos to the one you’re currently viewing;
- explore a custom tour or see where you’ve been; or
- send a collection to a friend.
For futher information and to view a demonstration video visit the Photosynth web site.
2 thoughts on “What is Microsoft’s Live Labs Photosynth?”
Eric Cheung July 31, 2006 at 8:06 pm
i can’t wait when this technology use on one of the windows live services. It should be rock. but wonder will it for vista only or xp compatible as well!!…
Darren Straight July 31, 2006 at 9:19 pm
Yeah same here, I reckon it will be both XP and Vista compatible though, I know they want to focus on Vista but I can see this Live Labs product coming out before Vista is ready for it, also I wonder if this will be taken over by another new startup, just like Wallop was, though that was from Microsoft Research you never know. 🙂