Because Photosynth uses photos differently than other photographic processes, it means you’re going to have to shoot your scene or object in a way you may not be used to. Among the things we did lots of times before learning not to: - Not taking enough...

As you’ve likely noticed, we’ve been experiencing problems with the Photosynth site for a few hours. Around 7pm PST one of the data centers hosting our servers experienced a power failure. By unfortunate chance we were upgrading some of our...

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...

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...

One of our favorite synths is Foamhenge , a life-size replica of Stonehenge in Northern Virginia. It could only look more authentic if it had a fence around it and a concession stand selling $4 bottles of water. While we were shooting our How to Synth...

We're experiencing some problems with the Photosynth site just now. Early indications are that we're having a hardware issue, but we're digging into that as we speak. We're working to resolve it as fast as we can. In the meantime, we're moving to our...

When we were developing Photosynth, we thought about how people would actually want to use it. Weddings came to mind--a single event that is heavily photographed. And we've found a number of synths that show the added dimension that Photosynth brings...

What the twittersphere is calling Snowmageddon has blanketed the Pacific NW in snow and ice. I woke last week to find everything covered in snow and excitedly (I grew up in Hawaii... any amount of snow is awesome.) created a synth off my deck and out...

With the latest release to Photosynth.com you can now mark your favorite synths, and we’ll let you see the synths that the most people have marked as a favorite in our new Explore page filter, Top Favorites . As an incentive, we’ll feature the 10...

One year ago today Photosynth.net opened its doors. We'd had a technology preview out for more than a year, but on August 20th 2008, people around the world could try it themselves for the first time. And did they ever! Propelled by massive blog interest...

Today the Photostynth team has released a major new feature and a slew of small improvements. New Feature: Overhead View Have you ever wanted to look down on Mt Rushmore from directly above the Presidents? What about seeing the exact layout of...

We joined the Virtual Earth team a couple months ago and we’re excited to release the first result of our joint efforts.  Commercial partners can now use the Virtual Earth platform to take advantage of the immersive 3D photo experiences Photosynth...

Along with a lot of little bug fixes, tweaks and general improvements we launched some pretty major visual updates to the website to help improve your experience with us. Also, with the revamp of the site design we did some work to improve our site search...

Today marks the beta release of the all new Silverlight-based version of Bing Maps , and one of the most visible features on this new site is deep Photosynth integration. The best geotagged photosynths from our community are explorable in Bing Maps in...

The winter Olympics are less than 3 weeks away. From February 12th to 28th the athletes will be competing in Vancouver and Whistler, and the Photosynth community will be covering the excitement as only we can. Each day during the Olympics we'll be...

If you're a world-class software developer or tester, come and work with us as we move forward on the next iteration of Photosynth and beyond. A listing of our current job openings can be found here .

We're pleased to announce that Photosynth has won a Breakthrough Award from Popular Mechanics magazine. The award honors the 'brightest innovators and innovations' of the year. The magazine's editors contact the nation's leading research institutions...

Synthing tips: How to synth a room Maybe you want to show off your newly-remodeled downstairs . Or you want to let your friends see how you’ve decorated your room . Or you want to remember the amazing lux ury condo you went through. Photosynth can...

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...

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...

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Ok fans, it’s been a long long wait but the 2010 World Cup is finally here. From June 11 th to July 11 th throughout South Africa 32 teams will go head to head to compete for that all important golden statue, oh and a little international fame obviously...

We received 27 submissions for the Holiday Lights Challenge -- a pretty good showing for our first competition. The winner was the "Mintz Family Christmas". Great decorations, a good capture, and very useful highlights. Fun! Here it is: The four...

Our small team has been working hard to improve the Photosynth experience and we just launched some new features and improvements to old ones.  We have a lot more features and improvements in the works and should be bringing you even more Photosynth...

During a recent out of the box week, Nathan created this Explore Map as a way to see all the synths that have been geotagged… and with some you putting a lot of time into creating great synths of locations around the world, we couldn’t wait to get it...