Photosynth Demo

A couple of days ago Microsoft labs released a demo of their new Photosynth software on the web. Photosynth allows the aggregation of social picture networks (a la Flickr) into a completed image in addition to allowing a level of depth to image browsing previously unavailable. There is also a very impressive video of the demo available.

Comments

Re:Better Video Demo Link

[Eggz Factor]

That was fcuking amazing!

Not just released, but still awesome

[EERac]

This system was demoed a while ago, I think at siggraph 2006. There are some videos on the original university of washington "PhotoTourism" research page. Also here's a repost of the same video on that page on youTube.

Also there's microsoft's photosynth page, which has the demo (it's been up for months). It seems to have some longer videos.

Non-newness and marketing hype aside, this software is frickin' awesome. It lets you view and tag photos organized in a 3D environment that reflects where the photos were taken. It should be particularly useful once cameras have GPS built in. It could be used by a single person, but it's definitely well suited to large collections such as flickr. I imagine the reason the software is still in the demo phase is because it's very difficult to take a large number of photos and reliably figure out where they were all taken from. For the demo purposes, Microsoft probably hand corrected a lot of the placements. Even so, everyone I've shown this to thinks its awesome (even non-slashdot readers!).

Waste of time, bandwith

[Scrameustache]

but keep watching. A couple minutes into it he moves on to the real meat Some people found videos that show you the good stuff right away.

Re:Huh?

[dean.collins]

Been out for a while - I posted more on my blog. http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/micros oft-photosynth.html