gHacks technology news » photosynth http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:29:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Microsoft Photosynth released http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/22/microsoft-photosynth-released/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/22/microsoft-photosynth-released/#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:24:27 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6375 You might remember that the news of the first Microsoft Photosynth prototype created a craze around the Internet. That was about a year ago. Microsoft has finally released a client version of Photosynth which combines browser plugins and a Photosynth software to create your own Synths.

Surprisingly enough the browser plugin works not only in Internet Explorer but also in Firefox. I have not checked out if it is running in Opera as well but it could very well be. Photosynth combines sets of photos that depict an object to create a bigger picture with depth and the ability to explore.

That technique adds more detail to the pictures. Imagine a static picture. It can only display certain dimensions and fails to display everything in the same detail. Photosynth steps in and creates a new “explorable” image.

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The Photosynth website has some great examples on their website, are you ready to explore the Sphinx, Taj Mahal, Eton College or a Night Skyline in greater detail than you ever did before?

The Photosynth software to create new Synths requires a Windows Live ID which is bit of a turn off. Creation loads the Photosynth page in Internet Explorer to create an account on the website

Users should also note that all synths will be uploaded to Photosynth and that all of them are made public for now. They also only work on computers running Windows XP or Windows Vista.

Once that is done a basic photo manager opens on the system that shows photo previews and lets the user select photos to synth. There are no options to chose other than picking the right photos that are somehow connected and pressing the Synth button.

The photos get processed and uploaded immediately. There is no way to stop the process once it is underway. Synth can be deleted on the website however. Here is the link to the synth that I have created. I only used a few photos because I could not find any more connected in my photo folder.

It’s definitely a nice technique but there should be an option to create private synths and another option to view the offline.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/22/microsoft-photosynth-released/feed/ 3 Future Technology Seadragon and Photosynth http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/08/future-technology-seadragon-and-photosynth/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/08/future-technology-seadragon-and-photosynth/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:19:03 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/08/future-technology-seadragon-and-photosynth/ Seadragon and Photosynth are two new technologies that have been presented at the TED 2007 conference by it’s architect Blaise Aguera y Arcas. Seadragon is basically a way to navigate seamlessly through a very large amount of image data. He was giving three examples at the presentation.

First he introduced a 300 Megapixel image, then that he was able to zoom into a complete book and lastly that it was possible to create new types of ads that would allow to zoom in and reveal details that would not be possible otherwise.

Photosynth on the other hand can be seen as a technology that takes lots of images of an object and combine them to form 3D models of that image. His example this time was Notre Dame. Images were taken from Flickr and you could see how they were combined to create the 3D image. Take a look at the video, it is really incredible.

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