I’ve been keeping my eyes on Microsoft Photosynth for quite a while now. A pretty amazing bit of technology which I can see all sorts of possibilities for. Anyway, I’d neglected to check it out for a week or so and imagine my surprise when I visited today and found it had gone live with the ability to upload your own photos.

Basically, Photosynth allows you to upload a group of related images and it interprets them, combining them into a 3D mapped environment. So you can see a scene from multiple angles, zoom in on details, or watch a sequence of photos. It has to be seen to be fully appreciated.

I can imagine that soon software like this will also offer full 3D models of your scene, texture mapped. (Yes, I know such software exists, but not with this kind of ease of use).

Of course, I have already had a bit of a play, and some of my experiments are online for you to check out. I will also be taking a good look at my France photos to see if any suit being ‘photosynthed’. I’ve embedded an example below.