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fuscia
June 2nd, 2007, 08:46 PM
am i really the first person to bring this up? http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129
maniacmusician
June 2nd, 2007, 08:58 PM
That's pretty amazing. It feels like he should be working for google though, not microsoft. This would be the best thing to ever happen to google earth.
fuscia
June 2nd, 2007, 09:06 PM
That's pretty amazing. It feels like he should be working for google though, not microsoft. This would be the best thing to ever happen to google earth.

microsoft earth is coming!1
maniacmusician
June 2nd, 2007, 09:11 PM
microsoft earth is coming!1
lol...
RAV TUX
June 2nd, 2007, 09:15 PM
am i really the first person to bring this up? http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129
Very cool fuscia, Thank You
DJ Wings
June 2nd, 2007, 09:44 PM
That was simply insane. If this technology found its way into the hands of the community... Very l33t.
DoctorMO
June 2nd, 2007, 09:46 PM
What a waste; it'll take up about 8 years to pull that off in the open source realm unless we can gather some of those experts.
fuscia
June 2nd, 2007, 10:15 PM
What a waste; it'll take up about 8 years to pull that off in the open source realm unless we can gather some of those experts.

kidnap that guy's turtle and we're in business.
reclusivemonkey
June 3rd, 2007, 11:38 PM
I had a quick play with it. Its quite good at what it does, and I can imagine lots of uses for photography professionals (especially locational rather than portrait), but as an end user I am still more impressed by lowfat;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkrM4ymkiDo
jgrabham
June 4th, 2007, 12:09 AM
That's pretty amazing. It feels like he should be working for google though, not microsoft. This would be the best thing to ever happen to google earth.

He wants to go but hes scared of low flying chairs!!
IYY
June 23rd, 2007, 07:33 AM
Unfortunately, this really does look incredibly cool. :(
rouge568
August 3rd, 2007, 01:00 PM
Only problem is that you can't download an .exe. Wine has no way to work its magic :(
Mr. Picklesworth
January 29th, 2008, 02:14 AM
My desire for this has not been satisfied. Now that Microsoft has yet to do anything at all interesting with Photosynth, have their been any open source efforts to replicate this technology?

This + Open source methodology + Integration with Google and other good web services ==== Win.

I realize it's highly unlikely, but may as well shoot the question out there :)
After all, quite a bit of the information is out there.
jrharvey
April 10th, 2008, 08:19 PM
This is amazing. I want this :)
b01
August 22nd, 2008, 06:28 PM
For those who want to try getting it to work with WINE, here's what I've done so far.

Installed FF3 Portable for Windows (portableapps.com)
Visit photosynth.net with FF3Portable
Download the .exe
Install it.

From here though come the problems. Viewing photosynths (is that a word?) causes FF to crash. Runnign the Photosynth app in WINE causes a failure. Anyone have success?
zmjjmz
August 22nd, 2008, 06:48 PM
For those who want to try getting it to work with WINE, here's what I've done so far.

Installed FF3 Portable for Windows (portableapps.com)
Visit photosynth.net with FF3Portable
Download the .exe
Install it.

From here though come the problems. Viewing photosynths (is that a word?) causes FF to crash. Runnign the Photosynth app in WINE causes a failure. Anyone have success?

Has anyone tried it with IE4Linux?

UPDATE:I have, and it doesn't work.
feranick
January 20th, 2009, 01:34 AM
The funny thing is that PhotoSynth was developed as "photo tourism" with the University of Washington in Linux (with readers for Windows and OSX done in Java...)

http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/PhotoTours/

http://xubuntublog.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/photosynth-for-linux/