Photosynth out of Beta

Photosynth, Microsoft’s revolutionary piece of software for making ‘3D’ style images out of flat photos, is now up and ready for use. Photosynth works by taking a set of images of the same thing - a place or object - and using pattern matching to work out corresponding areas on overlapping photos. This process is automatic, and once completed it means you can navigate in ‘3D’ around the constructed image. It’s certainly a step on from the usual panoramic stitching software we’re all used to.

Of course one issue… Microsoft being Microsoft and all, this only works on PCs right now so Mac users will have to wait a bit. On a positive note though, Photosynth works on the Firefox browser, not just IE, which is a big step for Microsoft.