Chris Gohlke
11-12-2006, 05:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://labs.live.com/photosynth/whatis/' target='_blank'>http://labs.live.com/photosynth/whatis/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"The Photosynth Technology Preview is a taste of the newest - and, we hope, most exciting - way to view photos on a computer. Our software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how each one relates to the next. In our collections, you can access gigabytes of photos in seconds, view a scene from nearly any angle, find similar photos with a single click, and zoom in to make the smallest detail as big as your monitor."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/photosynth.jpg" /><br /><br />This could be a killer application for the photo sharing market. Imagine if when you upload all your photos to the web, you are not only able to view all of your pictures, but all of everyone public photos from the same location. Tie this to GPS data, and you could end up with a virtual tour of the world (at least every portion of it that has been photographed). If you are intrigued, check out the preview.