Many of you will now have had a chance to  try out Photosynth which can be found  at http://photosynth.net/

Photosynth can essentially  stitch images together while maintaining ( if the image is shot correctly) the relative position of the image in relation to  other images in three dimensions.

It  you can then view these images  using the photosynth viewer.

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Earlier this week  Microsoft   announced the ability to playback photosynth images in a silverlight  player.

The biggest impact of this is that photosynth viewing is that it is no longer dependant on the local machine. Therefore photosynths can now be viewed on PCs and MACs.

You can find more details about Photosynth and Silverlight here:

http://photosynth.net/silverlight/about.aspx

Take a look at the great barn in the  sliverlight viewer.