Photosynth is Live – Create 3D Experiences
What an exciting week this has been! Photosynth has been fully released by Microsoft Live Labs this morning.
If you’re not familiar with Photosynth, it is a cool piece of technology which takes a collection of photographs and uses them to build a 3D scene or object based on analysis of the photographs. The Photosynth site has had several videos as well as a tech preview for people to take a closer look at the technology. But now the application is released, and you can install Photosynth and create your own synths.
To view some of the synths that have already been created, visit the Explore page. Note that all synths are uploaded (and they’re quite large, so you do need a broadband Internet connection) and all synths are public, so anything you upload will be visible to everyone on the web.
The Photosynth application is downloadable here. It runs on Window XP and Vista, and will also run on Windows on a Mac, but only under Boot Camp. You can use IE or Firefox to view the synths in the browser.
How can I learn more?
- The Photosynth site has a nice overview of how their technology works: http://photosynth.net/about.aspx
- The Photosynth blog is a great place to start: http://blogs.msdn.com/photosynth/
- The community site is a way to find and share information about using Photosynth: http://blogs.msdn.com/photosynth/
- Miel Van Opstal put up a great post this morning which has a great summary of the current capabilities of Photosynth along with some of the other features you can expect in the future: http://micromiel.com/2008/08/21/the-photosynth-stand-alone/
Have some cool pictures and want to create a cool 3D experience? Go check it out. There’s already at least one Irish Photosynth of Kerry: http://photosynth.net/install.aspx?cid=63f4ed9a-aa31-4475-a732-6d20793ab722&vc=false It’s a gorgeous view of hills and fields around Kerry (and it clearly wasn’t taken in our recent rainy weather!). What’s next!?
Cross posted from Martha's Blog