Microsofts Photosynth Project

Published on July 31, 2006 By Island Dog In WinCustomize News

Microsofts Photosynth Project

Not many things from Microsoft excite me too much anymore, but this is something I have found very interesting. It's almost hard to describe so the words from Microsoft Live Labs sums it up.

"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."

There is a video on the preview site which shows how they use this to "construct" a 3D environment where you can explore a place through pictures taken by different people across the world.

Watch the video here - Link

Photosynth page - Link

Comments

Xiozan

on Aug 01, 2006

In one word: "Awesome!"

The concept is a very bold move forward and one I look forward to with anticipation. Something like this will definitely change the face of Computers and the Internet. To be put into a 3D Environment of different locations or like a news agency will use, a war zone or disaster zone and to see the entire picture like Photosynth aims for would be definitely a new page in Computer History.

Makes me feel like a little kid waiting for Christmas and its the Night of Christmas Eve.

duke4e

on Aug 03, 2006

This sounds like a very interesting project. Finally, something "smart" from microsoft...
Hope it will not turn out as sh*t

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