PhotoSynth

Re-united and it feels so good! Laura and Paul are back to bring you the hottest Microsoft stories- this week includes: ScriptTD, (Codeplex) Photosynthing makes you money! Garage innovation Kinect Light Saber Wars  

The Photosynth team has put together a new application to create Photosynth panoramas on your mobile device. Photosynth panoramas are a little different from typical synths in that they are a single stitched image of a space, rather than a lot of individual images from different angles that are…

The Channel 9 studio is under going some badass renovations, sp Ping had a bit of a different look this week. Enjoy the new style and enjoy these stories: This is what people learn on Bing Will Kinect put an end to gym memberships? The future of touchscreen Photosynth & Photoshop!  …

Thanks to the recent refresh of the Windows Live Essentials beta, Windows Live Photo Gallery now supports geo-tagged photos via Bing Maps. Geo-tagging (adding location information to a photo) helps you see, on a map, where a particular photo was taken. By supporting geo-tags within Photo Gallery,…

National Geographic’s new documentary "Sunken Treasures of the Nile" will feature Photosynth technology, the team blog reports. Initially, Photosynth was being used to recover the point clouds and camera poses for creating 3D models, but later, the team at xRez Studio, which used…

The Photosynth team is calling out for synths of the action from the World Cup, the sporting event taking place in South Africa from June 11th to July 11th, featuring 32 teams from around the globe. Of course, the team itself is getting into the spirit with synths of their own. They’ll be covering…

The Photosynth Team just announced a new (and often-requested, they say) feature: the ability to share your synths on Facebook. Now every Photosynth page – both the synth and pano viewing page – has a “share to Facebook” button at the bottom-right corner. When clicked, you’ll be able to post your…

The guys over on LiveSide just spotted an update to ICE, the “Image Composite Editor” created by Microsoft Research. If you’ve never heard of this tool before, it’s pretty impressive. Basically, it’s the technology that’s used “under the hood” in Windows Live Photo Gallery to stitch photos together…

Today I'd like to introduce you to another piece of new technology from Microsoft Research Labs – Image Composite Editor (ICE) with Multi-Image Fusion.  In the current version of ICE, it provides advanced features for panoramic stitching such as choosing the stitch’s…

Over on the Photosynth blog, they’ve rounded up the top contributions from users who submitted Photosynth’d collections from the recent Winter Olympics. Over the past several weeks, there have been over 40 different synths from the games added to the online gallery, including contributions from the…