Microsoft has this cool new gadget called Photosynth. It takes a large collection of photos from you or other areas of the web that relate to one particular space or setting. Think...Venice, Italy or Disney World. Then, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space.
This new tool is so cool, I almost don't believe they can do it.
According to the Microsoft Lab page, the Microsoft Photosynth enables you to:
- 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
Once it has accomplished this, it puts the photos in a 3-D space and allows the viewer to navigate through it as if navigating through some flash model on the web, but instead of being animated models, it's the true photos all placed in their perspective area of the full scene. It's too crazy to explain, you will have to test it out for yourself. You can actually test it right now very easily, and I am just about positive you have NEVER seen anything like it.
Check out the new Microsoft Photosynth 3-D Space Tech Preview
By channeling the sophistication of say, Google's multi-media searching method and this new Photosynth, it could enable anyone, from anywhere to see full fledged realistic 3-D versions of anything, anywhere!
External Link Resources
Launch Microsoft Photosynth Tech Preview
Microsoft Photosynth Photo Collections
Photosynth Video: Watch the Making of Photosynth
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