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Photosynth comes to Live Search Maps
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
We mentioned previously that the Photosynth team has officially moved into the Virtual Earth Product Group. Today, Sarah Perez on Channel 10 pointed out that Photosynth is now officially integrated with Live Search Maps. Here’s an excerpt: As you navigate in a map or zoom in or out in a particular location in Live Maps, you can choose to display pushpins for each Photosynth available in that area. You then just click the “launch Photosynth viewer” link to dive in and start exploring those synths. You can try this now in Seattle, in Cairo at the Sphinx, in Vatican city, or at the Leaning tower of Pisa, for example. Here are the steps that ...
Eat That, Street View: Photosynth Comes to Live Maps
Mashable! —
Although Google Maps and Google Earth are often getting all the attention, the truth is that Microsoft’s Live Maps is a great product as well. Now, it also has a completely unique feature to brag about: Photosynth.
The image-stitching technology which produces wonderful 3D imagery is available on Live Maps in the form of pushpins; click on one and you’ll get a fully 3D experience of the location in question.
Some examples can be seen in Seattle, Cairo, Vatican city, or at the Leaning tower of Pisa.
This is what Photosynth was born to do; being able to explore distant locations in a cool 3D environment is fantastic, and while it not may be a killer feature that’ll ...
Photosynth Mashed Up with Windows Live Maps
SolSie.com —
Photosynth Mashed Up with Windows Live Maps image Photosynth ! The Microsoft Live Labs technology, that lets user generate a 3-D composite images based on 2-D pictures, has come to Live Maps (Microsoft online Maps service). You’d need to install the PhotoSynth viewer on your desktop. (more coverage on Photosynth HERE ) Find a location (e.g., Leaning tower of Pisa ), Click on explore collection image On the top left margin, click on Photo Synth button image you can choose to display pushpins for each Photosynth available in that area. You then just click the “launch Photosynth viewer” link to dive in and start exploring those synths. You can try this now in Seattle , in Cairo at the Sphinx , in ...
Live Search Maps Gets Photosynth
Geek In Disguise —
[image credit – Liveside] At last we’re combining our our coolest technologies to differentiate our products and services. What next, DeepZoom in Live Maps? I hope so. One of my frustrations at Microsoft at times is you see the potential of putting bits of our technology together to create something innovative and it doesn’t happen…or by the time it does, we got beat to the chase and then end up looking like followers not innovators. The LiveSide boys brought the integration of Photosynth to Live Search Maps today and it’s worth a look. Very cool. Do you see any other opportunities for this type of stuff we’re missing?
