Photosynth Test
Posted on November 9th, 2008 by timalmond
At the recent Microsoft Remix 08 UK Conference, I was part of a group Photosynth trial. If you’ve not tried Photosynth, it’s a technology that takes flat 2d photographs and joins them to create a 3d animation.
I decided to try it for myself in the Old Town area of Swindon, which you can see here. You have to install the Photosynth plug-in (it would be nice if it were just Silverlight-based).
About the best Photosynth’s to see are those at the National Geographic channel.
Update: Photosynth is currently Windows only.
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I’d love to see it but “We’re sorry, but Photosynth currently doesn’t run on [my Mac’s] operating system. Please see our system requirements listed to the right.”
Apparantly, they think they’re not cool enough.
You could get Bootcamp/VMWare on your Mac and run it under Windows. I’ll add a comment, though.
There is now a Silverlight based version of the Photosynth viewer that will run on Intel based Macs, it is not as fully featured as the native D3D viewer but it is pretty good: http://photosynth.com/silverlight
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