I’m always looking for ways to show off my unit, recently I learned of a great FREE new 3D photo-stitching service offered by Microsoft. What is 3D photo-stitching? Its sewing together a number of images to form a larger composite image. The technology has been around for a while and is used to create many of the panoramic images you may have seen. I have played with a number of utilities to try to do this on my own over the years and the exercise has usually left me very frustrated. Well, thank you Microsoft (at least for now while the service is still free)! No longer do you have to be very careful when taking the original pictures or manually align images! No longer are you limited to 2D stitching. No longer do you need a special camera or expensive SW. With photosynth it is very fast and easy to create 3D interactive walkthroughs of your unit and let folks zoom in details such as your new 42″ High Def TV, or even read the titles of your DVD collection. The only down side is that the synths are hosted on microsoft’s site, realistically requires broadband internet connection and prospective tenants would have to install a plugin on thier PC to be able to view them.
Interested? Check out photosynth now. I also recommend you watch this great video tutorial on how to create your own in a matter of minutes.
Enjoy!
Andy
