Microsoft Releases Photosynth

The first technological preview of Microsoft’s Photosynth has been released. Photosynth is a mind blowing application which turn a set of 2D pictures into a 3 dimensional virtual space. This was project was first announced at SIGGRAPH 2006, ever since then, I was waiting for this to happen.

The first technological preview shows only photoset provided by Microsoft, because rendering the 3 dimensional space out of photos provided by the user might take days or even weeks to complete. Since this rendering process involves tons of complex algorithm, the hardware requirements are high and will only run on Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista systems with a capable graphics card.

Photosynth can be downloaded from here, but you need to open that link in IE 6 or 7 (it won’t work with any other browser). I hate to see Microsoft suppressing other browser and forcing us to use IE. Damn…

This post was published by on November 10, 2006

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  • http://stevenbao.com Steven Bao

    I have to admit that this is one of the most innovative applications that I have ever seen. But it is agreed that it needs more work to be actually even released as a beta, for example not taking weeks to render the photoset.

    But still, this app is innovative, and might be interesting to mess around with.

  • http://www.WiseTome.com/splat Vyoma

    I do not like it either. They cannot entice me to use IE for sake of using PhotoSynth.

    I use IE only when I need to check my CSS/XHTML on different browser for ensuring cross browser compatibility.

  • http://www.jdsblog.com/2006/11/10/microsoft-live-labs-photosynth-preview/ Microsoft Live Labs – PhotoSynth Preview

    [...] UPDATE:  Thilak at Tech-buzz has a great post as well.  He points out that Photosynth can be downloaded here, but only with Internet Explorer… [...]

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  • http://www.sg-god.com/blog sg-GOD

    yeah..they always do this- forcing people to use IE. Clicking the mail button from MSN will open IE even though your default browser is Firefox. sometimes i don’t like it too.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Steven: I think is nearly impossible to make it work so fast, because it has to process all those images and render a single dimensional Space.

    Even if it could do, it would terrible powerful computer.

  • http://webideas-forum.co.nr Hashim

    Great app from microsoft, i don’t mind using IE sometimes (IE 7 not 6 ) , it works good for some wesites. But i can imagine smoke comming out of my PC if I use this software and put to render a big 3D image.