The Photosynth team has announced a new and often requested feature : sharing your synths on facebook. So the Photosynth has joined the social Web. Now every synth viewing page has a "share to Facebook" button.
For more details please check - Strut your synths on Facebook
For the TechFest 2010, Microsoft Research is releasing a new version of ICE (please note it links to the MSR ICE site , which at present is having the older ver. of ICE) . The new ver is not yet made public, but soon it will be.
EDIT (190310) :The new ver of ICE is now available, Please check - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ice/
Also check - ICE Is Now Synthy
Pl.note some features described in this post are because of plug-ins which may not be yet available.
“Image Composite Editor (ICE) with Multi-Image Fusion. In the current version of ICE, it provides advanced features for panoramic stitching such as choosing the stitch’s orientation, custom projection, and selecting a 360 stitch’s mid-point, and this tool also integrates nicely as a plug-in into Windows Live Photo Gallery. Here we’ll show you some of the upcoming new features in ICE such as:
- Structured Panoramas
- Stitching Panoramas from Video
- Sharp Panoramas from Blurry Videos
- Creating Photographs from Videos
- Multi-Image Denoising and Sharpening using Lucky Imaging ”
In the demo as we see the new ver. of Image Composite Editor (ICE) does amazing things. You’ll have to see the demo video to understand.
The Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) has selected the Microsoft Silverlight technology to enable live and on-demand video streaming of the official inauguration swearing-in ceremony on the PIC Web site at http://www.pic2009.org.
You can find how Silverlight will be used by PIC here.
The Moment:
Photosynth is partnering with CNN to gather thousands of photographs to create an immersive experience of the moment when President Obama takes the Oath of Office.
Well placed CNN photographers will capture lots of detailed shots for this synth, and if
you’re there you can help make this an even more amazing experience by adding your perspective with your digital camera or camera phone.
Check out CNN’s page dedicated to this collaboration: http://cnn.com/themoment.
How it Will Work
“We’ll take your photos from every angle, combine them with CNN’s professional shots, and produce what we hope will be an amazing experience that will be shown live on CNN…..”
How to Participate
When you make a Photosynth on your own, you shoot tens or hundreds of photos from different positions. Since we hope to have thousands of people participating, we’re asking to just capture the view from one position.
If you have a…
Camera Phone. Take one photo of the moment when the President Elect raises his hand to take the Oath, and email it as soon as you can to cnnmoment@live.com. Don’t worry if he’s too small to see clearly in your photo. As long as you get the Capitol building in your shot it will synth in and help reconstruct the environment.
Digital Camera. Take three photos (wide-angle, mid-zoom, full-zoom) of the President Elect while he is being sworn in. As soon as you can get to an Internet connection, email them to us at cnnmoment@live.com. Make sure your email message is less than 10MB in size. Break it into a couple of messages if your three photos combine to more than 10MB.
We’d love to give you credit in the synth, so include your name in the email if you’d like it to appear in the list of contributors.
UPDATE from Photosynth Blog:
If you’ll be somewhere around the capitol, capture a Photosynth of where you are and upload it to Photosynth.com. When viewing your synth page, click the icon to Geotag your synth (Mark it on the map). We’ll be watching for inauguration synths and will be collecting the best on a special inauguration map. (Letting me know you created an inauguration synth will help us find all the good ones for the map: darius.monsef@microsoft.com)
If you’ll be anywhere else in the world, capture a synth of where you are and include your television when the oath is on the TV… there is a chance the television could become a portal directly into the main inauguration synth we’re creating. This portal idea is something we’ve talked about before and some of our users have even experimented with: Synth in Synth: Germany – Sydney. Some updates in the future to the Photosynth site will make it easier for these kinds of portals to be shared and explored. Create your synth and upload it to Photosynth.com. When viewing your synth page, click the icon to Geotag your synth (Mark it on the map).
Geotagging Your Synths
In order for us to locate your synth on our special inauguration map, or on any of our Live Search Maps we need you to geotag your synths. You can do this when viewing your synth pages. There is a globe icon below your synth title on the right side of the page. Click that icon and place your synth on the map by finding your location and then clicking where you want the synth geotagged. There is a save button at the bottom of that map popup.
P.S. This is a great resource for shooting good synths: Photosynth Photography Guide: Tips and Tricks
(Source:Capturing Inauguration Celebrations: D.C. Area & Worldwide)
For more details check Photosynth Blog.
Create your own content with the Deep Zoom Composer or PhotoZoom and view it on your phone. Or just look at the sample content. You can also browse Photosynth collections (yours or anybody else's) with just a flick and a pinch.
Get it FREE from iPhone App Store.
FEATURES:
- View thousands of images over the air
- Quickly view massive gigapixel images
- Explore Photosynth collections in 2D, including your own
- Add your own PhotoZoom / Deep Zoom Composer content
- Subscribe to Deep Zoom RSS feeds
Released as a tech preview, Seadragon Mobile is designed to show off the 'what if?' of mobile user experiences. Expect more cool stuff from Live Labs in the future at http://livelabs.com.
Check for more details and demo video at http://livelabs.com/blog/seadragon-goes-mobile/
EDIT: Also check this video First Look: Seadragon Mobile from Channel10, where Ben Vanik,creator of this project demos it.
Try It: Explore Synths in Silverlight
More information about Experimental Silverlight Viewer is here.
If you want to Create your own Synths or want to explore what other people are synthing, go to http://photosynth.net/
Please read the about page for more information on the Silverlight viewer. There’s also a high performance viewer (Windows only). To view another synth, right-click a synth thumbnail on the site, copy the url and paste it into the given box , or just hit the Photosynth button to view a featured synth.
One of the example
So enjoy Photosynths now, even if you have a Mac or if you have an Older System.
National Geographic sent photographer Rebecca Hale to Stonehenge, one of the world’s most mysterious—and most photographed—sites. Just a few hours southwest of London, she shot the big rocks from just about every angle imaginable. She ended up taking more than 3,000 photos.
Then all of these photographs were waded through and the shots that will create the best Photsynth were picked up. (Photosynth is an amazing new technology from Microsoft Live Labs that will change forever the way you think about digital photos.Check here: What is Photosynth in detail )
You can see some of the results of this first collaboration in a video of the synth now posted on National Geographic site
(Source :National Geographic Goes Synthing)
Also there's a download link to download the video, if you want to (can also download it from here. ) (227 MB)
These are the technologies covered in the demo, put here with their links and timeline:
1. Microsoft Research Group Shot (00:20)
2. Sea Dragon (TED Video) (01:31)
3. Photosynth (02:45)
4. Microsoft Research HD View (Auckland, Wellington) (04:04)
5. Virtual Earth (Live Labs on the Map) (05:35)
6. Bill Buxton's Presentation from Expression around the Clock (07:27)
7. Microsoft Surface (09:40)
8. Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Surface Demonstration (Video Support) (10:17)
9. French Silverlight 1.0 Application (Script#) (10:48)
10. Tablet Features in WPF - Inking Over Video Sample, Ink Support Silverlight 1.0, Silverlight Ink SDK Sample (11:17)
11. Silverlight 1.0 Inking Search Sample (11:45)
12. Live Image Search (filters) (12:20)
13. Tafiti Search Visualization (13:05)
14. GPS location based interactive community (Where is Frank?) (14:09)
15. Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Invaders - Code (14:48)
16. Contoso Bicycle Club - Windows Live Quick Applications (16:03)
17. Live Messenger Integration Demo - Details (17:07)
18. http://backgroundmotion.com - Code/ Source Code (20:00)
19. Microsoft Popfly (22:21)
20. Windows Live Photo Gallery (26:16)
21. Windows Home Server (26:55)
22. LCI Intégrale (28:30)
23. Livestation (29:28)
24. WebGuide (30:03)
25. hsn.tv (31:25)
26. thirteen23 :: denounce (32:04)
27. How About It? (32:47)
28. the-hub.tv (33:53)
29. Glenn Conner Interview - Amazon Demo Silverlight 1.1 Alpha (34:30)
30. Building a 3D WPF Gesture Application - Code (35:24)
31. Building a Video Player in 8 mins with Silverlight 1.0 (36:42)
Sit back and enjoy the video.
UPDATE: As I found out and Nigel has also posted about it now, that when you go to the Microsoft Research Group Shot site and tries to download it, you'll get 'specified file not found ' message. This is because as Nigel points out "The Group Shot Beta period has expired. We are currently considering several options to bring Group Shot back. Please stay tuned to this site for information on future releases." (link).
As the recent collections from space shuttle Endeavor, (about which i had also posted :Photosynth and Shuttle Endeavour Tiles) becomes more popular, viewing it in Photosynth viewer, there were some who faced some problem in installing Photosynth viewer, according to Live Labs.
Few days back it was announced about the collaboration of Live Labs with NASA for using the Photosynth technology. This enables to create three-dimensional environments of preparations for the launch of space shuttle Endeavour. Viewers can experience unprecedented views of shuttle Endeavour on the launch pad, interior and surrounding area of the Vehicle Assembly Building. Photosynth is able to capture the depth and complexity of the shuttle’s structure, providing exclusive images to viewers around the world enabling the unique ability to explore this NASA mission.
Before the Endeavour returned back, Space Shuttle Endeavour did a complete somersault enabling astronauts in the International Space Station to photograph the shuttle's bottom-side. The photos were then sent back to NASA for analysis for any heat resistant tile damages. And these images were also shared with Microsoft Live Labs, which created a “synth” so people around the world can take part in the NASA experience. The images revealed heat shield tile damage but not of magnitude to be concerned about. And Endeavour safely touched down yesterday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
