Tag: PHOTOSYNTH

I took a whirlwind tour of the Microsoft booth and essentially got a quick demo of some things we've covered before, including Photosynth and Windows 7. Still, it's always nice to see what features you might have missed or features MS thinks you should really pay attention to. In this case they are very proud of their touch support and data-driven application support. Something like Photosynth ...

Photosynth, the much-anticipated three-dimensional photo experience from Microsoft Live Labs, has finally launched. "Synths," as they're called, are series of photos stitched together by a fancy algorithm that compares them to one another to create an immersive 360-degree viewing experience. You can start exploring Photosynth on most Windows PCs (and some Macs running virtual machines) now. ...

Microsoft and NASA have released high resolution images of the space shuttle Endeavor. Microsoft's Photosynth web viewer stitches together hundreds of high quality images to present a 3D view of items including Endeavor at the launch pad, the space shuttle Atlantis, and NASA's vehicle assembly building. All told, there are four image libraries made up of thousands of images. To be honest, the ...

Microsoft Research has pushed out some questionable stuff in the past, but I've always had a soft spot in my heart for Microsoft maintaining a world-renowned R&D group that hearkens back to the days when Xerox did the same thing. And even if not everything they generate is a gem, sometimes they produce something that you can't help but look at, and say "wow". Photosynth is that sort of ...

I couldn't think of a more descriptive title, because Microsoft's Photosynth is a little difficult to pin down. It's a product of Microsoft Live Labs that "takes a large collection of photos of a place or object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed 3-Dimensional space." In case that's not 100% enlightening, I recommend checking out the videos on the Photosynth ...