From IDG News Service:
Microsoft has made its Photosynth technology easier to use and opened it up for anyone to create their own images, the company planned to announce Thursday.
Photosynth automatically stitches together digital photos — just a handful or a few hundred — to create an image that a user can spin around to look at from all angles or zoom in to check out a close-up detail.
A project created in part through a collaboration between Microsoft Live Labs and the University of Washington, Photosynth was already open to anyone as a tech preview but heavily taxed many systems, resulting in a very slow user experience. Also, users could only view a handful of images and couldn’t make their own.
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I gave Photosynth a shot this a.m., but unfortunately the site told us that there was so much synthing going on that it was suspending additional synthing until the load died down a bit, and to come back later. Maybe I will..maybe I won’t.
