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...

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'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...

The world will change on January 20th when Barack Obama, the President-elect takes the oath of office and becomes the 44 th President of the United States. "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of the President of the United...

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...

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...

For the last few months we've been hard at work with the Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor (ICE) team to bring you the power to create and share beautifully stitched, seamless panoramas of almost any size. In this release we’ve put...

We’re pleased to announce the first full release of Photosynth, available now at photosynth.com . Photosynth takes a collection of regular photographs and reconstructs the scene or object in a 3-D environment. For those of you who have seen the videos...

Creating the best synth starts with the right photos. This guide will help you understand how to take the best photos for Photosynth. Reading it could save you from taking a few hundred pictures only to find out later that Photosynth won't put them together...

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...

We have been abolsutely overwhlemed by demand, and have turned Photosynth.com into a special static/read-only mode for the moment. The team is hard at work adding capacity and getting the full site back online. We've been under incredible demand since...

Hello Synthers. I'm Darius and I recently joined the team here at Photosynth with a focus on growing and expanding the community features. We'll be working hard in the coming months to make it easier for everyone to discuss, share and collaborate with...

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...

Our architect, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, gave a demo to CNET today showing off a pre-release build of Bing's nifty mobile panorama capture tool. Expect to hear more about this in the coming months because the Photosynth site will be the Web access...

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...

We’re working hard on improving the Photosynth technology and the tools to interact with synths, but some smart and creative people have already begun using Photosynth in some scientifically cool ways. Professor Carl Lipo from Cal State extracted...

We’re really excited about this update to Photosynth.  We’ve added a major new feature to our viewing experience and have improved the viewer to reach even more people.  With our new highlights feature you can point out the “can’t miss” areas...

Don’t worry if you won’t be one of the possible million people in attendance… you can still participate by taking photos from the events wherever you are. We'll be collecting your synths from the D.C. area on a Live Search Map that we'll put online during...

You can navigate through a synth by using the on-screen navigation that you see in the upper right hand corner of a synth, or by clicking on the arrows on the screen. But there are other keyboard shortcuts you can use to get through a synth that can give...

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...

Set your DVR to record National Geographic's new documentary: " Sunken Treasures of the Nile " and watch as they plumb the river's murky depths to uncover some amazing new discoveries. It begins airing tomorrow, August 3rd. Our friend Greg Downing...

The newest version of Photosynth is now live. There's nothing earth shattering in it (we're still hard at work on that). I did want to let you all know about some of the more noticeable changes, though. You'll see that the new, cleaner UI looks...

We've been very busy in the last few months working hard on squashing bugs, improving our synther technology, evolving our viewer and building some community features for our website. We're able to share some of that hard work with you today and promise...

At long last Photosynth has joined the social Web. We're happy to announce a much requested feature: sharing synths to Facebook. Every synth and pano viewing page now has a "share to Facebook" button. Click it, and you'll get a wall posting that...

If you've seen the amazing stitched panoramas on the Photosynth site you've experienced the work of our friends in Microsoft Research who created "ICE", the free Image Composite Editor that can stitch and blend immersive 360-degree panos of almost any...