More from Bing / iPhone camp, comes the latest news via a tweet that there is a new Photosynth app now available for iPhone. The program can take pictures, create PhotoSynths, and share them PhotoSynth.net, Facebook, and / or Bing Maps. With iPhone, you can now create synthesizers, and more: The app is now available for free download from iTunes, where we took this screenshot a list of features: As we prepare for the regular attacks from what Windows phone? comments, and it's a little tough to take to see all this cool stuff is seemingly everywhere, but on Microsoft devices, we prefer to think of the iPhone as a test bench for cool Windows phone apps to come. When Mango updates comes complete with a full set of APIs to do this cool stuff happen, we're going to see lots of cool stuff for Windows phone, which come mainly from Bing, but over the whole platform.
Microsoft Photosynth Immersive Camera App's - on iOSBy Kevin C. TofelApr. 18, 2011, 1:29 PT2 CommentsTweetMicrosoft Bing team today released Photosynth, a free mobile app for camera-enabled IOS devices that create spherical, panoramic images. Captured images can be shared through Facebook, host Bing Maps or freely Photosynth.net website. Photosynth is now displayed in the iTunes App Store, and the next version will be released for Microsoft Windows 7 Phone devices. After taking panoramic pictures in the past on an Android handset, first with Motorola Droid and later phones, I thought at first Photosynth was only a rehash of this functionality. But it is not. Instead of a linear set of horizontal images like the ones I made before, Photosynth creates an almost 360 degree image. You just snap, snap, snap different frames of the world around you and the software quickly creates a compelling picture that can be panned around.
At first, the software needed little interaction from me, apart from the first screen, press to start the process. For a while, I just stood in one place, and slowly turned around as the software snapped pictures. Over time, however, the software lost track of my progress picture, and I had to manually press the screen. And finally, some of the latest pictures out-of-place in certain areas of the image: the island in my kitchen is barely in the picture, for example, even though it is several feet in both length and width. There are a number of seams issues in the lower part of the stage too. An interactive upload my test is available here on the Photosynth site. It's a good thing that the house is clean! (Note: The demo requires Microsoft Silverlight is installed.) The promised production of Photosynth reminds me of another IOS app I've used on my last called iPad Tour wrist.
I keep meaning to visit Alcatraz, for example, when I fly out to our GigaOM offices in San Francisco, but never get the time
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With the spherical view of the Tour wrist, but I have explored the prison and was itself inside a cell, but almost
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In theory, with Photosynth, or any other similar software, I could create my own virtual tours and probably for far less money, because it does not need fancy camera equipment
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Our own Chris Albrecht recommended I cheque out the 360 \u200b\u200bPanorama for IOS devices in the iTunes App Store
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I find it strange that Bing made created Photosynth first for Apple devices instead of Microsoft Windows phone handsets
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What better way to further differentiate Microsoft's mobile platform by building a photo-stitching engine for it? Maybe this has something to do with how popular Apple's phones are like cameras: on Flickr's, such as the iPhone 4 is ready to be the number one camera is used by Flickr members
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