Microsoft’s new 3-D photo “stitching” service is now available for free download (here).
Basically, you can recreate a scene in 3-D by using the program to stitch photos together. Apparently, Microsoft wants you to call the finished products ’synths’. Yes. They are trying to make ’synth’ happen as a verb and a noun. If something is really synthy, the picture won’t have many gaps. Lots of pictures will complete the 3-D image.
Anyone else feel a Zune vibe coming on? The Zune ’squirt’ was just a nightmare waiting to happen.
Anyway, here’s more, from ZDNet:
- For now, PhotoSynth is a completely consumer-focused technology. But Microsoft is expecting business users to create commercial PhotoSynth experiences, as well. Aguera y Arcas cited shopping for things that are “extremely visual” as one likely application. It’s not hard to imagine medical-imaging applications of the technology. PhotoSynth tags can be embedded on any Web page (the way YouTube tags are today), which may result in other, new commercial uses of the technology.
Read the full article here.
