May 2, 2008
Microsoft Live Labs Launch Photosynth
Recently Microsoft Live labs introduced cool app called Photosynth. Microsoft says that this app brings in new technology which will forever change the way people think about digital photos.
Photosynth is currently supported as an addon for Mozilla Firefox and Internet explorer.Another requirement is a good graphic subsystem installed for all the graphic shine. So if you have an older graphic card on your pc like the Intel’s 8xx series then Photosynth will not work.The application is free to boot and has an inbuilt image gallery to view some cool stuff.
Here is a screenshot of Photosynth in action:
Here are some notable features of Photosynth :
- Occupies less memory - You must have an active Xcontrol in the system (about 5mb) for Photosynth to run. It doesn’t occupy large disk space.
- Awesome Zooming capacity - Perhaps the best feature of the Photosynth, whether the image is megapixels or gigapixels in size you can zoom in and out without any hesitation whatsoever.
- Navigate in 3D model - Photosynth provides easy controls for exploring large collection of photos in 3D with a simple click of the mouse button.
- Web application - Photosynth can help you connect your photos to the tubes we call the Internet, allowing you to browse a virtual universe of interconnected scenes that constantly evolves and changes over time.
Microsoft Live Labs says their are plenty of other features as well which are to be explored, but i suggest you try out Photosynth Now!
6 Comments, Comment or Ping
FireFox
You are first on this topic ! Great work. This gives me more reasons to visit this website everyday!
May 2nd, 2008
Steve
*cough* iPhoto *cough…
May 3rd, 2008
Sidharth bhansali
Thanks FIREFOX… i went to the official live labs website and researched for some hours to make this post!
Cheers
May 3rd, 2008
Anirudh
What is this? you’re missing out the prime important feature of photosynth.
It’s not a 3d gallery as you sort of put it, it allows you to stich photos together and tries to find relations between them. This is highly advanced image processing. So essentially if I have many many photographs of one place, it tries to find similarities and construct a 3d model of the entire place.
Try taking a picture of all around your room, and see how the gallery looks.
May 3rd, 2008
Sidharth bhansali
Actually that 3d model says it all…
Yes it extracts the hundreds of distinct points and processed the image to give a brilliant look!
Example : http://media.labs.live.com/photosynth/images/howdoyou1.jpg
May 3rd, 2008
Karthik Kastury
@Anirudh, Yeah photo stitching is what puts Photosynth ahead of the rest. And I must say it does do it amazingly
May 3rd, 2008
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