Microsoft shoots for 3D multi-photo viewer
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Microsoft on Thursday released a technical preview of Photosynth, a browser plug-in and service that creates a composite, three-dimensional view of multiple photos.
Gary Flake, a technical fellow at Microsoft and founder of Microsoft Live Labs, displayed the offering at the Web 2.0 Summit here. He said Photosynth is still a technical preview and not yet a commercial product.
Photosynth is a combination of an ActiveX browser plug-in and a server-based service that presents several different photos in an aggregated view. People can navigate through the stitched-together photos presented as a three-dimensional picture.