Photosynth

What is Photosynth?

Photosynth is a powerful set of tools for capturing and viewing the world in 3D. You can share these views with your friends on Facebook, publish them to Bing Maps, or embed them in your own Web site. Here’s the big picture:

How do I Capture the World in 3D?

Photosynth offers two styles for creating immersive 3D experiences: synths and panoramas. The following diagram shows the differences between them, and the tools available for creating them.

Panorama

Choose a panorama when you can capture everything from a single location with a single zoom level. Great for giving a sense of what it feels like to be in a one particular place. Can be 360° in both directions, but doesn’t have to be.

Simple to navigate - all you can do is go left/right, up/down and zoom in/out.

Synth

Good for capturing different sides or details of an object. Synths were the original experience on this site, and they remain its unique feature.

More complex to navigate than panoramas because you are moving from photo to photo.

Making Panoramas

Making Synths

How do I get Started?

First create a Photosynth account. Then download the tool or tools you need:

• To make panoramas from your iPhone, get the Photosynth App from Apple’s App Store.
• To make panoramas from your PC, install Image Composite Editor and the Photosynth application.
• To make synths, just install the Photosynth application, if you don’t already have it.

Mobile Panoramas

Capture, upload, share, and view Photosynth panoramas wherever you go with our new Photosynth app for iOS. These panoramas, which are the same as the ones created using our desktop panorama tools, can be created anywhere, from your favorite restaurant, a space station, or wherever inspiration strikes. From just a few stitched photos up to full spherical panoramas, the Photosynth app allows you to take Photosynth on the go and use it anytime.

The app features an innovative interactive capture system that lets you see your progress during capture, powered by Photosynth’s computer vision algorithms. Your images are quickly stitched together into an interactive panorama which you can explore right on your device. All of your panoramas are stored on your device so you can view or share them at any time. Plus, you can view everything in your existing Photosynth.net account on the device with the interactive streaming viewer.

The Photosynth app is full of ways to share your panoramas from your device. To share an immersive experience, just store your interactive panoramas on Photosynth.net and then announce it to your social network. Also, you can keep a flat image of your panorama in your Camera Roll or share it with your Facebook friends. And, with Bing Maps publishing, you could become famous by letting the whole world see panoramic views of your favorite places and businesses. (Learn more).

Currently, the app is supported on the iPhone 3Gs, iPhone 4, iPad 2, and the 4^th generation iPod Touch. Download it from the App Store now.