Posts tagged Photosynth
Augmented Maps with Photosynth
Feb 14th
I don’t have anything intelligent to say about it, but I was compelled to post it. I’m a big Photosynth fanboy, and always believed it has great potential for augmented reality. On this talk from last Thursday at TED, We see that Microsoft has similar ideas in mind. I would expect more surprises coming from Redmond in 2010
You can read more details about it over at MIT Technology Review or on Bing’s blog.
Photosynth Point Export – Photosynth as a 3D Scanner?
Nov 6th
Take a look at the movie below and make sure you watch it all the way through – note the export of the model from photosynth into a stand alone 3D package:
This opens up the possibility of using photosynth as a free 3D scanner, and one that would work on objects up to the building level scale. It seems to be early days but there is a lot of discussion going on around the tutorial here.
If anyone has any more insight do let us know via the comments…
