Earlier this year, Microsoft shut down Photosynth, its service for stitching multiple images into panoramas and semi-3D models. When it launched in 2008, the service was extremely impressive, but it n
Google just <a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2012/04/visit-global-landmarks-with-photo-tours.html">added</a> a cool new feature to Google Maps that lets you see photo tours of <a href="http
It’s telling that Apple chose an app that debuted more than 14 months ago, Instagram, as its “<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/08/apple-picks-instagram-as-the-iphone-app-of-the-year/">iPhon
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/tr.jpg" />You may remember Photosynth, the impressive yet somehow unsatisfying photo collage tool from Microsoft. Though I always thrille
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/photosynth-215x136.png" width="215" height="136" /><a href="http://microsoft.com">Microsoft</a> is today announcing the integration of <a href
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<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/picture-11.jpg" alt="" />You've likely seen Photosynth in action before, but reader KSA sent this in and we thought we'd share. Look at a
Although the utility of having Photosynths integrated with Live maps is questionable at the moment when compared with Street View, it’s only a matter of time before the map is a little more satu
First off, Photosynth only works on Windows machines. That includes creating them and merely viewing them. I made this one using Boot Camp on my MacBook. That out of that way, this is a quick little P
In the startup world, server spikes and downtime are a fact of life. We’ve seen countless startups fall prey to the huge rushes of traffic they receive at launch, and while it can be frustrating
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
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
Wow, this is really, really goddamn cool. I love how the “skeleton” created by all the photographs is visible, a ghostly meta-world based entirely on aggregate data and an insane amount of
I’m a big fan of all the 3D imaging tools in development around the net. Microsoft’s Photosynth project is clearly the most ambitious – it takes thousands of photographs of a geograp
How long will it be until we can stroll through the streets in a virtual world that is identical to our own? Given the state of a number of technologies, not very long. Over the last couple of years w
A team from Microsoft Live Labs will present a prototype of an awesome looking new photo tool at tomorrow’s SIGGRAPH conference in Boston. Called Photosynth, the tool will compile multiple image