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.

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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…