New from Microsoft, a unique architecture allowing images to be put together in order to recreate a real space. Use the space bar to scan from image to image, use your scroll button to zoom; its incredible. Combined with Microsoft Surface Technology, or what has until now been labeled as "Project Milan", there are some really unique applications; retail, navigation, education, ebooks...
Check out the beta version of Photosynth and play around with it! You can't yet add your own photo collections, but you can play around with collections uploaded by Microsoft.
"In our collections, you can access gigabytes of photos in seconds, view a scene from nearly any angle, find similar photos with a single click, and zoom in to make the smallest detail as big as your monitor. A Photosynth experience begins with nothing more than a bunch of digital photos. They might all have been taken by one person, or they might be a mixture of images from many different cameras, shooting conditions, dates, times of day, resolutions, and so on.
Each dot represents an extracted feature
Each photo is processed by computer vision algorithms to extract hundreds of distinctive features, like the corner of a window frame or a door handle. Photos that share features are then linked together in a web. When the same feature is found in multiple images, its 3D position can be calculated. It's similar to depth perception - what your brain does to perceive the 3D positions of things in your field of view based on their images in both of your eyes. Photosynth's 3D model is just the cloud of points showing where those features are in space."
Check out the initial unveiling of Photosynth at a recent TED conference:
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