Photosynth by Microsoft: Enjoy the 3D view of your favorite location

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August 22, 2008 ||

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Microsoft’s Photosynth is out of beta now. The product is based on its most talked about and popular research projects in the field of photography.

This product creates a panoramic 3D view of an image by synchronizing multiple images. This technology is also known as Photo Tourism.

it could just be the start of what we call computational photography techniques making its way to the main stream media in a form of a product.

To see the best results of this technology, one should take a lot of pictures of the same or surrounding view from as many angles as possible. Also, Microsoft suggests that this product be used with IE 7 and above or FireFox 3 and above. Once these pictures are uploaded into Photosynth, it creates a picture which can we viewed at different angles and distance.

This is certainly one of the best products out there on the internet as a result of Microsoft research projects.

Visit Photosynth.net and try the product right away, Click here to see an example of what Photosynth can do.

Watch this mind blowing Photosynth demo video at TED by Blaise Aguera y Arcas, an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon, and the co-creator of Photosynth.