We're pleased to announce that Photosynth, the acclaimed mobile panorama app, is now available on Windows Phone 8. Get Photosynth for free from the Windows Phone Store (the Store team just pushed the publish button, so it might take a few hours before...

Did you see the Bing Home Page today? To celebrate the launch of Windows 8, Bing has a suitably beautiful surprise for anyone running Windows 8 already, or using the latest Chrome, Firefox, or Safari Web browser. If you haven’t seen it yet and you...

We're pleased to announce that Photosynth, the acclaimed mobile panorama app, is now available on Windows Phone. Get Photosynth for free from the Windows Phone Marketplace for phones running Windows Phone 7.5 or higher*. Screenshot from a panorama...

It has been ten months since Photosynth 1.0 was released for iOS. We have enjoyed great success on Apple’s iTunes App Store thanks to all the support and 5-star reviews our users have been giving us. Just recently, we passed the six million downloads...

The move of our databases to Windows Azure happened as planned today. All features of the Photosynth Web site, including viewing, exploring, searching, uploading, commenting, favoriting, embedding etc. etc. should be working as normal. This puts us...

In order to move more of the Photosynth backend to the wonderful world of Windows Azure (see the previous blog post) we’re going to have a scheduled outage of Photosynth on Wednesday February 1st, starting at 10:00am Pacific Time . Current plans...

Photosynth stores a LOT of data. Today we have more than a million synths and panos, and the number is rising rapidly. So far we've accumulated more than 40 terabytes (TB) of data representing more than 100 terapixels. When we launched Photosynth more...

Congratulations go out to lukshing for the panorama Metro Moscow! Very tough competition this week, as beautiful and amazing synths pour in from all over the world and people's own backyards. This week the win goes to lukshing's capture of the subterranean...

Congratulations go out to Karotte.exe for the panorama ClimbingTour3 deep in the Swiss Alps! Contest week 13 wasn't unlucky for this great photosynth capture. Enjoy your Xbox 360 with Kinect prize package, and keep sharing with the world! For all...

Congratulations go out to clairelouise for the panorama Grand Canyon! The muddy Colorado River blending into the rich texture of the cliffs under blue sky made for a beautiful 360 capture. Enjoy your Xbox 360 with Kinect prize package, and keep...

Congratulations go out to BBMunny for their panorama Mass Exodus, from Black Rock City Nevada! We love this capture of the eerie 8-lane post-apocalyptic procession through the Nevada wasteland. Enjoy your Xbox 360 with Kinect prize package, and...

Congratulations go out to sillyrabbit for their panorama Fulton's On The River in Chicago, Illinois! Great job, and keep capturing everyone! Plenty of chances left to win an Xbox 360 with Kinect prize package and have your panorama featured in the...

Week 8's winner is sascha95 for their brilliant panorama of the Colorad River's Horseshoe Bend, near Page, Arizona. Lars2re took week 9's prize for a panorama taken while mountain biking in Norway entitled Liahornet. Fjørå Singletrack...

Congratulations go out to FrancoisPerez for their panorama of the Steel Pagoda in Cambodia. We're coming up on the halfway point of this contest, but you still have 8 more chances to win an Xbox 360 with Kinect prize package and have your panorama...

Time to catch up on the past few week's winners of our Summer Xbox Contest, starting with week 4's winner AHO_2020 who won with this panorama of St. Anastasia in Verona Italy The winner of week 5 is patrrycjuszx for his amazing panorama taken...

This week's winner of the Summer Xbox Contest, gmprague , has used the Photosynth iPhone App not to create one single brilliant panorama, but to document a the scenic higlights of an entire city: Prauge (Praha in Czech). Of the 23 panoramas he created...

You may have seen the stories today about Microsoft’s relationship with Gigwalk – a company that organizes thousands of people to do small local tasks using their mobile phones. The Photosynth App is at the heart of this relationship, because...

We'd like to congratulate this weeks winner of our Summer Xbox Contest, neb5 , for their beautiful panorama of Sylvan Lake in the Black Hills of South Dakota. neb5, thanks for sharing your work and we hope you'll enjoy your Xbox with Kinect! This...

With the release of the 1.1 update for the Photosynth App for iOS last week we started a contest where for the next 15 weeks we’ll be featuring the best panorama entered on the new Best of Bing Maps page in the app, and giving away an Xbox 360 with...

Two months after our first version, we’re releasing the v1.1 of the Photosynth app for iOS. We’ve taken the original, tuned it, and added features that you’ve requested. First off, we’ve added in-app sharing via email and enhanced...

We’ve started a new video series to dive deep into how to get the most out of the Photosynth app. The series will cover topics from getting started, taking advantage of advanced features, capturing tough environments, and technical discussions of...

As reported on the Bing blog today, we hit the two million downloads mark for our Photosynth mobile App in less than two weeks of being in the iOS App Store. All we can say to those two million people who have loved it, and told their friends about...

OK. We admit it was a bit of a stunt, but we got to take advantage of the climbing skills of our longtime Test Lead, Tony Ernst. The fact that Tony is by far the most experienced photographer on our team didn't hurt either! What am I talking about...

Demoed by Blaise in December, our mobile panorama app is now available in the iOS App Store. The new Photosynth app takes the advanced technology of ICE panorama stitching and shrinks it down to a mobile device. Create, view, and share panoramas all from...

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