Photosynth from Microsoft Live Labs is a new service to create incredible photo presentations. Photosynth builds a 3-D environment out of flat photos. You can click through that 3-D world like in that old graphic-based videogame called Myst.
Photosynth calculates the 3-D illusions by comparing the similarities in the pictures. And you need tons of pictures to get satisfying results. Some of the "Synths" consist of more the 200 pictures.
The whole service works with a client on your computer and with the servers of the Microsoft Live Labs. That's the main problem about Photosynth even with a fast internet connection it takes a lot of time to create a Synth. I started creating a 70-pictures-Synth and it took about 4h hours to get it done. You can watch my Synth of the football field in Ansbach , Germany here.To view a Synth you need to download the Photosynth plug-in.
The other negative aspect is that all of your created Synths are always available to every visitor of the Photosynth site. There is no option to hide Synth from the public.
Is Photosynth a great, innovative multimedia experience? Or just another desperate try of Mircosoft to fight the Apple and Google competition with buggy software? I can't decide, yet!
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Photosynth - a new way to show your vacation photos
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September 14, 2008 7:43 PM
This sounds cool, maybe they can make it where it loads and performs faster on the servers to speed it up.
September 15, 2008 3:40 AM
This is really cool... however, I'm one of those people who get discouraged from trying out anything when I'm told that I need to install something to make it work. :P
September 15, 2008 5:40 AM
Really seems to be an incredible tool for photo presentations taken during vacations. The 3D effectes are commendable. Thanks a tonne.
September 15, 2008 7:36 AM
wow. That is really nice. Is there any color option for doing this?
September 16, 2008 3:51 AM
i Just want to say that it is excellent.
September 16, 2008 4:10 PM
Thanks for the info. I loved your post.
September 17, 2008 6:23 AM
nice, great info.. thanks for sharing.
September 17, 2008 7:11 AM
That looks pretty awesome, I'm getting a new camera that weekend so will be looking forward to testing this out with some of the snaps I take.
September 17, 2008 6:45 PM
Neat stuff. I'm glad M$ is doing something useful these days.
September 18, 2008 2:33 PM
Thanks, This is one of very few blogs that was worth the read, a great insight, you should be commended for your time and effort.
September 20, 2008 1:09 PM
That's pretty cool, how did you find this?
September 22, 2008 3:10 AM
This is a great photo program, but the only issue tends to be that it loads slow when there are too many photos.
September 25, 2008 1:53 AM
Thanks for this post, my friend will be so exciting to check this. I really appreciate your work over here :)
September 26, 2008 7:45 AM
Photosynth is one of the first attempts at getting a 3-D view using a collection of 2-D images.
You may find this post interesting to read:
http://indradhanush-laal.blogspot.com/2008/07/digital-visualization-of-our-heritage.html
You have captured the negative aspects of photosynth very accurately. However it is the only software of its kind available to anyone to create 3-D views using their own collection of photographs.
September 28, 2008 11:32 PM
I would use it if they have color options
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