I got to cruise over to Smith Tower yesterday to talk with Microsoft Live Labs about Photosynth, and as of this writing the site should be live and all the things we talked about will be available for you to play with. It’s best to see it in motion, so either grab that camera or watch the video above for a taste of the Synthy goodness. Sorry the sound is so bad.
The video is a bit of behind-the-scenes stuff but really there isn’t too much there you can’t see by just heading over to Photosynth.net and testing out a few synths. May I recommend my own? Or, of course, you could look at one of the many gorgeous panoramas made up by people who work at some magazine called National Geographic — whatever that is. Read on for a basic explanation of what’s going on when it “synths” stuff.
Photosynth will be huge for the porn industry.
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The is the Microsoft Office Labs team, but it looks like they are using Firefox. Shouldn’t they be using IE7 ?
If Bill was still there, that wouldn’t be happening.
I know it’s Microsoft, but a Mac version would be very cool.
no linux/mac version?
f*** it then
It’s an interesting product, but i do see some over lap with video.
It likens to poor mans bullet time.
It’s cool and everything, but the experience is still all too “Microsoft”.
Doesn’t run on Mac, so I reboot into Boot Camp. Then I have to download and install a plug-in and application, after which I have to reboot again. Finally I run the app, and it starts checking for updates. Then it tells me I need to log in to Microsoft Live (or whatever) to create a synth.
The web interface is less like hard work, but doesn’t yet have a lot of content.
For this to succeed, people must be able to try and enjoy it within 10 seconds of arriving at photosynth.com. Give us a crap/slow/lo-res version to start with, to tempt us to jump through the hoops needed for the Real McCoy.
With all the credit due for doing something cool and original, the (huge) Photosynth team needs to think a little more clearly about how to execute online.
If they could make a flash widget for this, ebay users would love it as you could sell your product and people could spin it around…
“There’s a lot of synthing going on. We’ve syspended uploading until the load dies down a little. Please try again later.”
hehe… launch day
Leave it MS to come out with somthing already out….
What exactly is already out there?
“Unfortunately, we’re not cool enough to run on your OS yet. We really wish we had a version of Photosynth that worked cross platform, but for now it only runs on Windows. Trust us, as soon as we have a Mac version ready, it will be up and available on our site.”
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Why can’t people just appreciate good products. If the same product would came out from Google stable everyone would have just been going gaga over it…
Guys, grow up… give the credit where its due… so what if its Microsoft
amen
Imagine applying this application to create gaming maps. Whole gaming worlds created with actual photographs. Driving games, UT Maps, Halo, etc…
Their server is down…already.
I tried to kill this story eight different times
Of course everyone saw the http://occipital.com/blog/ mention yesterday right? Can’t mention Photosynth without mentioning these guys (2 to be exact).
This is just fantastic!! love this thing and the 50GB is great. i only have stupid 5 GB on my gdrive.
Конкретно и понятно.
I only just installed Photosynth now, but I’m actually really impressed with it! I’m surprised the system requirements are so low.
cool, clasno pishesh, prodolzhay v tom zhe duhe