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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 14 September 2006 | |
  
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But how about this one, down the track? Imagine being able to zoom in on a global landmark, such as the Taj Mahal, and take a virtual tour of the site, from numerous angles and perspectives. Imagine that this did not require any investment to produce each particular tour, but that it could be created from digital photographs of the Taj Mahal uploaded by any Google Earth user, 'visiting' the site on Google Earth: photographs from any point taken at any time of the day, or year. Well that's not so far fetched. At the SISGGRAPH 2006 conference in Boston in August researchers demonstrated a new photo-browsing system called Photosynth, claimed to "enable people to combine their photos with thousands of others collected on the Internet to present a detailed 3-D model which gives viewers the sensation of smoothly gliding around the scene from every angle." Photosynth can be previewed at http://labs.live.com/Photosynth, and the software is expected to be available for download later this year. There is just one small problem, for Google at least. Photosynth belongs to Microsoft. |
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