Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth Demo

Microsofts Live Labs are developing a new software solution that creates threedimensional images from normal photos or pictures that share some visible content.

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[pascbjumper2]

@nathanaelawrence Thanks just used it. Looks pretty cool.

[nathanaelawrence]

@tamrix They haven't messed anything up yet. ツ

Noah Snavely is the Ph. D. student that you're talking about and although Noah showed his research to a lot of people, Microsoft was the first company to actually begin work on making it useful to people and their Seadragon technology for streaming the images makes it one of the best versions of the idea around.

Panoramio's 'Look Around' feature (also seen as 'User Photos' in Google Street View) was the second big implementation.

[nathanaelawrence]

@pascbjumper2 Yep! Just visit photosynth (dot) net

[nathanaelawrence]

@Classroommovies I have several old PCs around my house and they all run the old Direct3D Photosynth viewer quite fast. The old D3D viewer only works on Windows in Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer, though.

The new Silverlight viewer can be used by more people (in all major browsers on Mac and Windows), but Silverlight 4 can't use your video card for 3D yet, so it has to do all the 3D on your CPU, which is a bit slower unless you have a good CPU.

[nathanaelawrence]

@Classroommovies The smaller your screen, the less fast your connection has to be.

Check out the free iSynth app. It doesn't let you add photos, but you can at least view synths on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

[nathanaelawrence]

The Photosynth project was announced in 2006 July.

2006 November: The first Photosynth viewer with four or five pre-computed synths was released.

2008 August 20: The first version of Photosynth that allowed anyone to synth their own images together and upload their synths to stream to anyone over the internet was released.

2009 December 02: Photosynths were viewable on Bing Maps at the maps/explore page.

For more information search the net for "Seadragon and Photosynth Media Resources".

[Classroommovies]

@Classroommovies and a fast internet connection

[Classroommovies]

as cool as this is i doubt it would work properly, and it would be extreamly slow unless you have a top end computer

[pascbjumper2]

Wow.. that's.. amazing. Is this available?

[theTRUE1414]

the prblem about this , is privecy... e.g google earth shows images of peoples houses n stuff ... so in my opion it can b bad.. but nvm iz still cool