NASA's close encounter with Microsoft Photosynth

During Endeavour's launch on August 7, Photosynth provided NASA with a 3D demonstration of the technology...

For Endeavour’s historic launch on August 7th, 2007, Live Labs joined forces with NASA to provide a Photosynth tour of the shuttle from vehicle assembly building to the launch pad. Thousands of photos intertwine to provide three dimensional, 360 degree perspectives of one of human kind’s greatest innovations.

Photosynth is a new software technology from Microsoft Live Labs that will change the way you think about digital photos. Photosynth can accommodate large photo collections, systematically analyze similarities and differences between images, and display them in a reconstructed three-dimensional world.

Photosynth features:

You can view the picture from different angles of the scene

You can look for images that are similar to the one the user is currently viewing

You can send the atlas to your friends

You can customize the image viewing order