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Microsoft has announced some cool new collaborative photography software in the form of PhotoSynth on the Live Labs web site.
http://labs.live.com/photosynth
Photosynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed 3-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 photograph even if it is gigapixels in size
- see where pictures were taken in relation to one another
- find similar photos to the one you're currently viewing
- explore a custom tour or see where you've been
- send a collection to a friend
The site includes videos describing the technology and the manner in which it was developed - a collaboration between MSR, Live Labs, the recently acquired Seadragon team, and the Windows PIX Team.
PhotoSynth really embodies the kind of innovative, next-generation photo experience that many folks at Microsoft have been noodling on for some time.
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