Microsoft combines Photosynth, Virtual Earth
PC World | at | by Mike
Microsoft has integrated Photosynth, its technology that stitches pictures together, with Virtual Earth, encouraging businesses to combine the two technologies. The company envisions real-estate agents, tourism groups, retail shops and the public sector using the combined technologies. A real-estate agent, for example, could plot an available house on the Virtual Earth map and then let people take a virtual tour of the house by navigating through a synth.
The Photosynth technology stitches together hundreds or even thousands of photos into an image that a user can zoom into and navigate around. Microsoft has also added new permissioning tools that will let a business decide to keep a synth private.