Microsoft Photosynth

You might be wondering what the hell is Photosynth. I had the same questions as you. Well it turns out that at Microsoft Live Labs, they've created a virtual world using photos. They intend on using photos from the web to create a sort of world using the photo. They are able to reconstruct buildings and landscape using multiple images.

With this technology, one could take photos from there trip and find other photo from that are similar or taken at the same place from other users. You could have taken a far way shot of a statue and you could zoom in on the statue if others took close up photos.

It's really an interesting project and the videos on the website is quite impressive. Worth a look.

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