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Microsoft’s Photosynth goes live

By Andrew Redfern @ 21st August 2008 3:08 pm

Why send cars round the world mapping every street on earth when you can just get every digital camera owner in the world to do it for you? It could be argued that that is the philosophy behind Microsoft Photosynth. Demoed a while back it is now out of beta and ready for users to add their photo maps.

Essentially the application mixes a map program with a photo host in order to allow views of the world from every angle that’s ever been photographed. Ultimately the project will stand or fall on the number and quality of the photos input into it.

“Imagine being able to share the places and things you love using the cinematic quality of a movie, the control of a video game, and the mind-blowing detail of the real world. With nothing more than a bunch of photos, Photosynth creates an amazing new experience.

Photosynth is a potent mixture of two independent breakthroughs: the ability to reconstruct the scene or object from a bunch of flat photographs, and the technology to bring that experience to virtually anyone over the Internet.

Using techniques from the field of computer vision, Photosynth examines images for similarities to each other and uses that information to estimate the shape of the subject and the vantage point the photos were taken from. With this information, we recreate the space and use it as a canvas to display and navigate through the photos.”

It’s a project that’s fantatically ambitious and has been stirring up huge excitement for a while now. Now it’s here we can all jump onboard.

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