Microsoft Photosynth

Post by **benryves** » Fri 10 Nov, 2006 1:44 pm

I remember reading about Photosynth a while back - it's a nifty idea where they take a series of photographs and combine them into a 3D space - but didn't realise you could actually try it until today.

Photosynth Tech Preview

You'll need IE7/6 (unsurprisingly, as it's ActiveX-reliant) to use it. It's seriously impressive stuff - I can't wait to make my own collections.

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Fri 10 Nov, 2006 7:06 pm

I also read something on tihs a while back, had no idea it would be this impressive, thats alotta pidgeons also

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Maybe i will actually start using my camera now

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(I also like the 'Dial up: Not recommended'

).

blueskies · Post by **blueskies** » Fri 10 Nov, 2006 7:57 pm

I don't like it.

King Harold · Post by **King Harold** » Fri 10 Nov, 2006 8:49 pm

I allready found a bug, but hey its microsoft..
(if you do certain things the 3D will completely mess up, well the parallax messes up, try to move back and forth a few times and then look around from the same position)

but i certainly like the idea

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Sat 11 Nov, 2006 8:02 pm

It's a bit disappointing that you only see one picture at a time with a lot of dots representing the rest of the scene... Would be much cooler if is would reasseble the bigger picture from the photos in a 3D scene.

Anyway, I didn't really get a chance to take a good look yet; it doesn't really impress over remote desktop

anykey · Post by **anykey** » Sun 12 Nov, 2006 12:00 am

urg.
Why do I assume that all web apps should work on all platforms?
oh well.

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Sun 12 Nov, 2006 4:38 am

King Harold wrote:I allready found a bug, but hey its microsoft..

You know, they do state that it is a beta, and that it might have bugs. If you don't like to see bugs, don't use betas.

I thought it was a really neat program. And, as to displaying the entire scene instead of just dots of light, think about how much bandwidth that would take. Load times would increase by a huge amount, quite possibly to the amount where it would be unusable. I thought the 3d array of dots of light looked nice.

Post by **benryves** » Mon 13 Nov, 2006 11:37 am

anykey wrote:urg.
Why do I assume that all web apps should work on all platforms?
oh well.

It isn't a web app. It's a Windows app.

anykey · Post by **anykey** » Wed 15 Nov, 2006 12:28 am

ah...
the wording on the website made it sound like it ran in the browser. then again, with my short attention span, I didn't do much investigating on the site, so don't listen to me.