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5 Photosynths that let you jump into another world

5 Photosynths that let you jump into another worldPhotosynth is great, but..I was hoping to see it implemented in Silverlight. It will be a good promotion for SF plus other platforms will be supported too...But I still love it!Microsoft admitting the truth at last.Microsoft have finally realised their place. ...

Tags: Desktops, Photosynth, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

5 Photosynths that let you jump into another world

Photosynth launched last week to a lot of fanfare and it's definitely one of the coolest things I've seen come out of Microsoft. It's also one of the more interesting RIA examples out there. It provides a really great user interface and a level of richness for photos that the...

Tags: Photograph, Photosynth, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-08-24

Microsoft launches 3-D photo viewer Photosynth

Microsoft Live Labs' latest project is actually an old one with a new twist. Photosynth lets you stitch together an entire roll of photos into dazzling 3-D environments. CNET.com's Ina Fried sits down with Microsoft's Gary William Flake to chat about what you can do with this new technology.

Tags: 3D, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Microsoft Live Labs, News, ina fried, microsoft, photosynth, gary william, pictures, albums

Videos 2008-08-21

Six surprising things about Microsoft's PhotoSynth

PhotoSynth, Microsoft's photo-stitching technology from the company's Live Labs division, is out of beta and is now a version 1.0 shipping product. If I had to choose the six things that most surprised/impressed me about PhotoSynth, this would be my list. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: MSN, Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Photograph, Technology, PhotoSynth, Software Component, Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Stunning Microsoft Labs Photosynth preview

Microsoft Live Labs now has a working preview of their Photosynth technology technology overview and Video. The preview initially only worked for newer versions of Internet Explorer but now theres apparently a Firefox plugin for as well but it only works on Windows XP SP2 and Vista at this...

Tags: Security, News, Microsoft, Fun Stuff, Consumer electronics, Browsers

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Try Microsoft's Photosynth

After seven months of development, Microsoft is making Photosynth tech demo available. You cant upload photos but its a cool demo of how to navigate a photo site. In keep with Microsofts merging of the Web and client, Live Labs head Gary Flake called Photsynth an "elegant marriage between the...

Tags: General, Personal Technology, Web Technology, web2con, photograph, Photosynth

Blog posts 2006-11-09

Microsoft Live Labs shows off Photosynth

Microsoft Live Labs shows off PhotosynthNote to self: Get speakersnt.

Tags: Photosynth, Microsoft Live Labs, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-08-01

Microsoft Live Labs shows off Photosynth

Microsoft Live Labs has this truly awesome demonstration of Photosynth, an image processing software that stitches images together in to a 3D world. They also have a 150 MB High Definition version of the video for download. There is a huge potential that this technology will reach out...

Tags: Photosynth, Microsoft Live Labs, Microsoft Live

Blog posts 2006-07-31

Additional Resources

News to know: Google; Typosquatting; Apple; IDF

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Garett Rogers: Google gains share again, should Microsoft give up? Christopher Dawson: Can Dell compete on cost anymore? Dancho Danchev: Typosquatting the U.S presidential...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Open Source, Security, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-22

Six surprising things about Microsoft's PhotoSynth

Six surprising things about Microsoft's PhotoSynthI would have installed it already, but...... it looks like I have to install the photosynth application as well as the plugin. I would like to see how the "synths" really look and perform, but I'm not planning on making any anytime soon, so...

Tags: Web site development, Microsoft Photosynth, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-21

News to know: Apple sued; IDF; Adobe hijack; Microsoft-Novell

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch? Techmeme IDF wrap: Christopher Dawson: New touch screen Classmates unveiled today...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Novell Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Business Structures, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Microsoft mashes up multiple natural-user-interface inputs

Publicly and privately, Microsoft officials have been making much of the company's myriad multi-touch input projects (especially with Windows 7 and Windows Mobile 7). But Microsoft's view of what the user interface of the future will look like is more complex than that. Instead of allowing users...

Tags: Receptionist, User Interface, Microsoft Corp., Robots, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Emerging Technologies, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-07-28

Don't cry for the open-source heroes

I don't think anyone will be shedding any tears over Microsoft's open-source heroes promotion -- except possibly for true open-source zealots who still hate the idea that Microsoft is managing to convince some open-source vendors to port their wares to Windows. On February 27, Microsoft will hold...

Tags: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-02-15

Microsoft Live Labs rolls out list-sharing tool

Microsoft's Live Labs -- the team that brought us PhotoSynth (photo manipulation/melding) and SeaDragon (smooth-browsing) technology previews -- has introduced another offering to its roster: Listas. Listas is a list-sharing tool. According to a description of the technology on the Live Labs Web site, Listas "allows you...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Tool, Listas, Productivity, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-10-19

Images: A 3D view of Endeavour

Microsoft and NASA team up on a Web plug-in that uses thousands of photos to create a 3D look at the space shuttle.NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to give people a 3D photographic look at the space shuttle Endeavour before its launch this week. Viewable in Microsoft''s downloadable plug-in...

Tags: Kennedy Space Center, shuttle, photograph, Microsoft', 3D, NASA, high-resolution, helicopter, digital photograph, software developer, plug-in, camera, developer, software, team, Web

Image galleries 2007-08-06

Microsoft gives 3D look at space shuttle

Microsoft gives 3D look at space shuttleLink, please!!Sounds great - where's the link to it?!Took a look at the video for thissince my graphics card doesn't support the technology. It looks like a kludgy implementation of QuickTime VR.Windows XP SP2 and Vista OnlyThe Photosynth technology preview runs only on Windows...

Tags: Photosynth Technology Preview, 3D, NASA, QTVR, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-08-06

Astoria: Another piece of Microsoft's cloud programming model revealed

On Monday at Mix 07, Microsoft revealed yet another piece of its puzzling cloud-programming puzzle: "Astoria." Astoria is a set of patterns and infrastructure for Web data services, explained Pablo Castro, technical lead with Microsofts database group. Castro showed off Microsofts Astoria work during his session on "Accessing...

Tags: Code names, Database, Development tools, Housekeeping, MIX07, Silverlight (wpf/e), SQL Server, Web 2.0, Windows Live

Blog posts 2007-04-30

News to know: Q&A with Macbook hacker; Virgin IT; iPhone; Microsoft's Volta; Google Apps

Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Virgin Americas CIO gets IT greenfield. Gallery: Windows Home Server - April 2007 CTP Release.Ryan Naraine: 10 questions for MacBook hacker Dino Dai Zovi. QuickTime bug brought down MacBook. Russinovich: Malware will thrive, even with Vistas UAC.Mary Jo Foley: Volta: Microsofts dev platform in the Cloud?Infoworld: AT&T...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-04-24

Stunning Microsoft Labs Photosynth preview

Stunning Microsoft Labs Photosynth previewStunning what!another lock-in product that works only on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Me2I am at a loss for words...Let me just say here a big and enthusiast WOW!Truely amazing.Of course the bashers will be along soon to tell us they can do it on Linux...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-04-24

My thoughts on Expression Session 07

I had a very, very long day yesterday that revolved around what I thought was an extremely good Expression Session by Microsoft. This was the first run of the event there are two more in Chicago and New York and while there were a couple of rough spots, for the...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Windows Presentation Foundation, Expression Studio, Burton, GPS

Blog posts 2007-01-19