Microsoft’s New Photosynth Beta Software Will Own the Future by Mapping the World Through User Generated Pictures
Wow.
If you have any interest in digital photography, you need to check out what is going on over at Microsoft labs concerning Photosynth:
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/
The software
“takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space.”
With Photosynth you can:
- Walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any angle.
- Seamlessly zoom in or out of a photo whether it’s megapixels or gigapixels in size.
- See where pictures were taken in relation to one another.
- Find similar photos to the one you’re currently viewing.
- Send a collection - or a particular view of one - to a friend.
Here is a screen shot:
I found this originally mentioned on the great data visualization blog, Information Aesthetics.
The software is amazing fast and updates everything in real time as you explore the image environment. Looks like Microsoft is doing something right and just may have their finger on the future of socialized virtual globe-trotting.
It is hard to explain how the software works, the best way is just to try it out yourself.
