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Microsoft Could Add 3D Panorama Support to SkyDrive

Microsoft is working on adding Photosynth support to SkyDrive, thus providing users with quick options to upload and view 3D panoramas on the cloud-based storage service. While Microsoft is yet to reveal any details about this update, LiveSide.net writes that a future 3D panorama experience on SkyDrive.com would be ...

27 May 2013
17:31 GMT

Windows 8.1 / Blue Camera App to Offer 3D Support

The Camera app integrated into Windows 8.1 / Blue will receive several improvements, including Photosynth support to take 3D photos. According to a report by Microsoft-News.com, evidence of the Photosynth integration has been found in a recently leaked ISO, which means that the tech giant is at least pondering the i...

3 May 2013
15:11 GMT

Download Photosynth 1.6 for Windows Phone 8

A new flavor of the Photosynth application is now available for download for devices running under Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 operating system, namely version 1.6, meant to deliver a series of bug fixes and other enhancements. Following the update to the new app release, Windows Phone users should no longer ...

20 March 2013
05:58 GMT

Photosynth Now Available for Windows Phone 8

Today, Microsoft has finally made the Photosynth application available for the Windows Phone 8 platform, a few months after the operating system has officially landed on shelves. For those out of the loop, we should note that the app was designed to provide users with the possibility to easily stitch photos togethe...

1 March 2013
11:34 GMT

Photosynth for Windows Phone 8 to Arrive in Weeks

The long expected Photosynth application for devices running under the Windows Phone 8 operating system might arrive in a matter of weeks, the team behind the software has announced. Apparently, they had to delay the official release of the app due to a series of issues with the drivers for some handsets, but the p...

15 January 2013
03:17 GMT

Photosynth for Windows Phone 8 Coming Soon, Now in Final Testing

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 operating system is already seen as a great mobile platform by many, and it seems that it is about to get even better, as new, great applications are about to arrive on it. The Photosynth Team announced on Twitter that the Windows Phone 8 app had entered final testing and that it s...

4 December 2012
11:21 GMT

Microsoft Brings Its Mobile Panorama App to Windows Phone

Photosynth, Microsoft’s panorama application, has been available for the owners of Apple iOS devices since April last year, much for the dismay of Windows Phone users. Starting today, however, that changes, as the company has finally made the mobile software available for its own operating system for smartpho...

30 May 2012
16:51 GMT

Photosynth Now Available for Windows Phone

On Thursday, Microsoft has made available for download the Photosynth application for devices running under its Windows Phone mobile platform. The app was made available last year for Apple’s iOS devices, providing users with the possibility to stitch photos together to come up with panorama shots. The tool...

30 May 2012
03:23 GMT

Photosynth for Windows Phone Nears Official Launch

Reportedly, Microsoft is getting ready to launch the Windows Phone flavor of its Photosynth application in the near future. The Redmond-based software giant has promised the release of this software since a few months ago, but hasn’t provided an official launch date for it until now. However, enthusiasts ma...

15 May 2012
05:33 GMT

Microsoft’s Photosynth App for iOS Gets Better Sharing Capabilities

Microsoft has made available for download a new flavor of the popular Photosynth application for the devices running under Apple’s iOS platform. The new flavor of the software arrives on devices with a variety of performance enhancements, while also packing better sharing capabilities. Additionally, the ap...

13 March 2012
13:11 GMT

Photosynth iOS Updated with Twitter Integration

Microsoft’s Photosynth app is now available to all iDevice users worldwide, and includes performance optimizations for iOS 5 and adds Twitter sharing. Photosynth was previously stuck with two sharing services for photo panoramas - Bing Maps and Facebook. The iOS app now does Twitter too, and it works better on...

13 March 2012
05:41 GMT

Microsoft Updates Immensely Successful Photosynth App for iPhone

Microsoft has tuned its iOS application designed to allow users to capture panoramas, and if the evolution of the app is not enough for you, the company is gearing up to award the best panoramas you can create with Xbox 360 with Kinect prizes. Photosynth for iOS is now at version 1.1, just two months after it was in...

30 June 2011
06:52 GMT

Microsoft Focuses on Photosynth for Windows Phone

One of the new features that would arrive on Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system in the not too far future would be a Photosynth application.It would offer users the possibility to stitch together photos taken with their phone's camera to create panoramas straight on their handsets. We already repor...

12 May 2011
11:51 GMT

Photosynth App Coming to Windows Phone 7 Soon

One of the latest mobile applications that Microsoft released into the wild was the Photosynth app, which just landed on Apple's iPhone and iPad devices, and which, apparently is also set to make an appearance on handsets running under Windows Phone 7.These devices already have an application that delivered sim...

19 April 2011
12:06 GMT

Add Panorama Capturing to iPhone, iPod and iPad with Photosynth App

Photosynth App for iPhone, iPod and iPad proves that innovative software can easily make great hardware even better. Users of Apple iOS devices can download the mobile flavor of Photosynth and add panorama capturing capabilities as well as sharing functionality spanning across Microsoft’s decision engine, Phot...

19 April 2011
08:24 GMT

Create and Export Synth Panoramas to Photosynth with Photoshop

As of the start of this month, leveraging the Microsoft Image Composite Editor is no longer the only way to create synth panoramas for Photosynth. Instead photographers can now turn to one of the main digital instruments for editing photos, Adobe Photoshop. This is possible because the Redmond company just announce...

1 December 2010
06:51 GMT

Microsoft Live Labs Folded into Bing

The Microsoft team that developed innovative Cloud applications such as Pivot, Zoom.it, and Photosynth is now a part of Bing.This is the result of a small reorganization for the Redmond company, with the services mentioned above continuing to be accessible, at least for the time being. The software giant has announ...

11 October 2010
07:41 GMT

Photosynth Embraces Facebook

Microsoft has not been shy about embracing the world’s most successful social networks with a variety of its online properties, including MSN and Windows Live, but there always seems to be room for additional such connections. Photosynth, Microsoft’s tool that allows users to transform a collection of ima...

27 April 2010
04:02 GMT

Photosynth Blackout Results in 'Missing Content' Errors

As of April 15th, Microsoft had resolved the blackout that took offline its Photosynth website, but was still working to make all content accessible to end users. On April 15, at 16:00 PST, the Redmond company had managed to bring back online approximately 50% of the content that was initially being reported as missi...

16 April 2010
07:40 GMT

Photosynth Key to Augmented Reality Future

Photosynth, a Microsoft technology that lets end users create synths, 3D navigable spaces by stitching together 2D images, will be an integral part of the company’s vision of augmented reality. The software giant unveiled recently its concept of spatial exploration, courtesy of architect Blaise Agüera y Ar...

19 March 2010
11:17 GMT

Photosynth "Holiday Lights" Challenge

The Bing Home Sweet Homepage photo contest is not the only challenge from Microsoft designed to inspire users to share their imagery with the world. The Photosynth team is holding its own season thematic contest, under the moniker "Holiday Lights." Specifically, the Redmond company is looking for people to share thei...

15 December 2009
10:43 GMT

New Bing Maps Beta Brings Superb Evolution

A cocktail of Microsoft technologies is the catalyst for what the company has called the first big refresh of the technology behind Bing Maps in years. By mixing together not just the mapping, search and location platform, but also Photosynth, Silverlight and Seadragon, along with additional technologies from Live La...

3 December 2009
03:21 GMT

New Photosynth Release Now Live

Microsoft has kicked up a notch a service designed to let end users build three dimensional spaces of 2D images. At the end of November 2009, the Redmond company introduced the latest update to Photosynth, indicating that users will be able to benefit new graphical user interface elements as well as a boost in perfor...

2 December 2009
05:25 GMT

Microsoft Photosynth Upgraded

Microsoft has upgraded Photosynth, introducing Overhead View, a new major feature, complemented by an array of various but smaller enhancements. Specifically, Overhead View is designed to deliver an entirely new perspective over synths. Microsoft Photosynth is a service that allows users to build navigable 3D spaces ...

9 October 2009
07:18 GMT

Photosynth: One Year and 422,508 Synths Later

Microsoft Photosynth has turned one, and judging from the millions of photos uploaded and the billions of FLOPs necessary to integrate the digital images into synths, the service is nothing short of a success. In its first year since release, on August 20, 2008, approximately 16 million photos have been uploaded and ...

21 August 2009
09:58 GMT

MySynths - Publish Photosynths on Facebook via Windows Azure

MySynths is a Cloud application designed to no less than bridge Facebook and Microsoft Photosynth. Essentially, the app allows users of the social networking website to integrate content created with Photosynth into Facebook profile pages. “MySynth” was developed by speakTech with CEO Aaron Sloman present...

12 August 2009
09:43 GMT

Explore Stargate in Photosynth

Stargate fans now have the chance to get a more palpable experience of the universe aboard the Destiny. By embracing Microsoft's Photosynth technology MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios) have put together a couple of synths featuring a corridor and the gate room aboard the ship. “A corridor aboard the Destin...

9 July 2009
09:53 GMT

Photosynth Update Introduces New Design

Microsoft has introduced an update to the technology that allows end users to build three-dimensional spaces from stitching together 2D images. Following the refresh, Photosynth got not just a range of bug fixes, but also tweaks and improvements, and a redesign, explained Darius Monsef, program manager of community f...

4 June 2009
10:04 GMT

Microsoft Marries Photosynth and Virtual Earth

Microsoft confirmed what it referred to as the natural synergy between Photosynth and Virtual Earth in July 2008. Almost a year later, the Redmond company has made yet another step in the marriage of Photosynth and Virtual Earth. Essentially, by integrating the 3D photo technology into its mapping, location and searc...

7 May 2009
07:05 GMT

Photosynth Update Swaps Direct 3D Viewer for Silverlight UX

With the latest update introduced to Photosynth, Microsoft has scrapped the now traditional Direct 3D viewer for a Silverlight UX that spans both Windows and Mac OS X. The Redmond-based company indicated that the shift to the new Silverlight experimental viewer was designed to precisely make the service available to ...

23 April 2009
12:51 GMT

Photosynths from the Obama Inauguration Events

Microsoft was right on the spot to capture the inauguration ceremony of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the U.S., and is currently offering users the possibility of reliving the event. One way for digital content associated with the event to be accessed is the company's Photosynth technology. Combining dig...

21 January 2009
05:09 GMT

Microsoft Photosynthing the Inauguration of the 44th President of the U.S.

Silverlight is not the sole Microsoft technology to get a spot light in prime time as Barack Obama will be sworn-in as the 44th President of the U.S. Come January 20, 2009, the Redmond company will not only make available online videos of the ceremony live and on demand, but will also be Photosynthing the entire even...

19 January 2009
06:40 GMT

Seadragon Fixes 2D Photosynth Browsing

Microsoft Live Labs dipped its toe in the iPhone market last Saturday, releasing the Seadragon Mobile technology preview as part of the team's continued experimentation with large picture viewing. When the Seadragon Mobile app was published, the ability to browse Photosynth collections in 2D was inoperable, but ...

17 December 2008
06:20 GMT

Introducing the Photosynth Experimental Silverlight Viewer

The Experimental Silverlight Viewer is an integral part of the evolution of Microsoft Live Labs' Photosynth, along with bug fixes and the advancements introduced to the synther technology. In this context, the Redmond company delivered an experimental cross-platform Silverlight viewer the past week, designed to ...

15 December 2008
11:40 GMT

Insight on the Virtual Earth - Photosynth Marriage

Live Search Maps/Virtual Earth has grown with the integration of content from Photosynth. Essentially, Microsoft is now integrating synths into its mapping, location and search platform. This means that Virtual Earth users will no longer be able to explore only aerial, Bird's Eye and satellite imagery, but also ...

7 November 2008
11:24 GMT

Virtual Earth - 41.07 TB (Terabytes) Update and Photosynth

There are no small increments to the content associated with Microsoft Virtual Earth. In fact, because of the way that new and existing content have to blend together, the Redmond company prefers to deliver massive multi-terabytes updates to its mapping, location and search platform. It is the case with the latest up...

6 November 2008
14:41 GMT

Seadragon Meets Surface

Seadragon and Surface are two illustrations of technologies developed by Microsoft which can combine to deliver unique results. An example is the video embedded at the bottom of this article courtesy of Eric Havir, Senior Manager, Digital Marketing at Microsoft Surface. Albeit a tad old, the video from the Micro...

26 September 2008
11:06 GMT

Microsoft Updates Photosynth

Photosynth, an incubation project from Microsoft Live Labs, went out of Technology preview stage and was released to web on August 20, 2008. Just eight days later the Redmond company introduced the first update for the service designed to permit end users to upload collections of 2D digital images and create navigabl...

29 August 2008
10:38 GMT

Microsoft 'Not Cool Enough' for Mac OS X

TUAW points out in a Saturday piece that Microsoft's Photosynth website features a note in which the company admits it is "not cool enough" for OS X just yet. So, like, is this how they're going to counter-attack Apple's "Get a Mac" ads?Microsoft's Photosynth website says, "Unfortunately, we'...

25 August 2008
06:21 GMT

Microsoft Photosynth Is Live with 20 GB of Free Storage

The technology behind Microsoft Photosynth has evolved past the stage of simple Technology Preview and is now available in its final form. Fathered by Blaise Agera y Arcas, who joined Microsoft Live Labs in 2006, Photosynth is designed to permit end users to build navigable three dimensional spaces out of 2D digital phot...

21 August 2008
10:05 GMT

Microsoft Photosynth Creator Among the 2008 World's Top Young Innovators

Blaise Agera y Arcas, the father of Seadragon and one of the creators behind Microsoft Photosynth has been awarded among the exclusive 2008 Young Innovators Under 35 group put together by Technology Review magazine. Arcas made it on the elite TR35 Listing out of in excess of 300 nominees, thanks to the work he poured int...

19 August 2008
10:05 GMT

Microsoft Virtual Earth Gets 14.3 Terabyte Update and Photosynth

July 2008 represents yet another step further in the evolution of Microsoft Virtual Earth. Just over the past week, Microsoft added a new 14.3 terabyte (TB) update to Virtual Earth and expanded the team responsible for the service with the Photosynth project from Live Labs research. Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth Tec...

28 July 2008
04:36 GMT

Stonehenge Meets Photosynth

Users should prepare for an entirely new perspective over Stonehenge, courtesy of Microsoft and National Geographic. Images of Stonehenge from National Geographic will be made available to the general public bundles as a collection via Photosynth. Essentially, the Stonehenge Photosynth project will permit 3-D explora...

19 May 2008
05:09 GMT

Amazing Damage Details and Imagery of Endeavour Orbiting the Earth

This is your chance to witness first hand the Endeavour shuttle orbiting the Earth in the 3D interactive environment provided by Photosynth. At the beginning of this month, Microsoft and NASA debuted a joint initiative designed to allow Photosynth users via IE6, IE7, Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 2.0 to access a luxuriant ...

21 August 2007
07:48 GMT

Is Microsoft Changing Its Error Messages "Lifestyle" from Cryptic to Funny?

You might find it hard to believe, but Microsoft is right on track to completely overhaul its "lifestyle" built around the error messages integrated by default into its software products. I know that any user in his right mind would be heedful of news that the Redmond company might actually manage to drop the machine...

8 August 2007
08:22 GMT

The Endeavour Shuttle Captured in 3D via Microsoft's Photosynth

Users around the world are now able to access an extensive collection of imagery of the Endeavour shuttle, courtesy of Microsoft and NASA. Via Microsoft's Photosynth, the Redmond company has set up a 3D model of the shuttle and the launchpad using traditional 2D photographs. Through Photosynth - Microsoft's...

6 August 2007
03:12 GMT

Microsoft Is Building an Imaging Social Meta-Universe - Video Demonstration!

Seadragon and Photosynth are simultaneously two technologies and two projects from Microsoft Live Labs designed to irremediably change digital imaging management and viewing, both on a local computer and online. Essentially, Microsoft has set up to build an imaging social meta-universe. The Seadragon and Photosynth t...

7 June 2007
09:30 GMT

Unique 3-D Interactive Experience via Live Labs Photosynth

Microsoft is offering the promise of a unique 3-D interactive experience of Britain. Via Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth, the Redmond Company will make available to users around the world three-dimensional photographic scenery illustrating in great detail historic landmarks in the United Kingdom. Microsoft informed th...

6 June 2007
05:00 GMT


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