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    Default Microsoft turns photo albums into navigable 3D worlds

    "Photosynth will be released as a Web client that people can use to explore large collections of photos," said Richard Szeliski, who leads the Interactive Visual Media Group at Microsoft. Photosynth has the potential to create a complete virtual world made up of the world's photos, Szeliski said.
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    Default PhotoSynth from Microsoft

    the future of online photos....flickr? whats Flickr?

    http://labs.live.com/photosynth/videodemo.html
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    Nice - kinda overwhelming to think about this technology and uses BUT it shows that new ideas are indeed still emerging everyday.
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    Default Microsoft Releases PhotoSynth 3-D Photo Stitching Service

    PhotoSynth allows users to combine an array of photos of a single location into a navigable, three-dimensional image called a "synth" and upload it to Photosynth.net to share with the world. The technology, which originated in a Microsoft Research project, is an altogether new way of putting photographs together.

    "The photo hasn't fundamentally changed since it went digital," says Alex Daley, group product manager for Live Labs, which incubated the PhotoSynth technology before its release. He describes PhotoSynth as a "creative medium similar to photo or video, but just a little bit different."

    PhotoSynth requires photographers to think a little bit differently about how they take pictures of a scene. It won't combine photos unless they are "synthy," that is, unless they overlap one another so that they can be meshed together.

    For now, PhotoSynth is a consumer product, but Microsoft sees potential for commercial uses as well. "If you think about the commerce scenarios, you have this ability to provide a generalized overview of that that you might not have been able to before," Daley says. Take, for example, the possibility of a real estate site with navigable virtual tours of houses. Synths can be made to allow users to navigate around corners and objects as well as view an image in a 360-degree round.
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    Default New Microsoft photo site spends first day offline

    cant use it......... lol.

    Microsoft Corp.'s new digital photo sharing site spent most of its first day offline as its servers strained to handle a flood of traffic.

    The site, called Photosynth, stitches together a set of related digital photos into a presentation that allows viewers to zoom and pan across the scene.

    Microsoft employees and partners including National Geographic had been tinkering with a private beta version of the technology. Microsoft was set to open Photosynth to the public late Wednesday, but on Thursday morning the working site had already been replaced by a page that displayed an apology.
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/...hotosynth_down
    Back to square one....., back off the ground now........

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    google maps uses technology close to this. Me na sure who first come up with the idea cus last year when me see a demo of photosyth google never have that in their maps....anybody know whose idea? i dibs google ....knowing ms lol

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