Neowin News Feed for: Photosynth

Microsoft's Pix Camera revives Photosynth and adds new Comix feature

Rich Woods — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 18:10:01 +0000

Microsoft today announced some new features that are coming to its Pix Camera app for iOS, including Photosynth, a service and app that was killed off by the company earlier this year. Read more...

Microsoft's Photosynth service is officially dead

Rich Woods — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 05:52:01 +0000

As the company promised months ago, Microsoft has killed off its Photosynth service today, which had allowed users to share their panoramic images online. Images stored on the service were not saved. Read more...

Microsoft's Photosynth will officially shut down soon, here's how to save your content

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 08:46:01 +0000

While Photosynth's mobile app was abandoned over a year ago, fans of the service could still use the website. Now, the website is also going to be taken down, so here's how to save your content. Read more...

Microsoft is shutting down its Photosynth, Food & Drink, Health & Fitness and Travel apps

Brad Sams — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:09:16 +0000

Microsoft has begun notifying users that it will be shutting down several apps and that if you have any data saved in these products, you need to remove it soon or else it will be lost. Read more...

Microsoft adding highlights, geo-tagging and easier browsing to Photosynth

Andrew Stevenson — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 13:10:02 +0000

New sharing and information features are being added to Microsoft's panoramic image creating application Photosynth, making it easier for users to share and discover more about a location. Read more...

Microsoft creates a 20 gigapixel photo panorama of Seattle

John Callaham — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:10:31 +0000

Microsoft has created a new 20 gigapixel photo panorama of Seattle that used the company's Photosynth and Image Composite Editor software to merge nearly 2,400 separate photos. Read more...

Key Microsoft engineer for Bing Maps and Photosynth departs for Google

John Callaham — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:16:13 +0000

Blaise Aguera y Arcas, who was a developer for Microsoft's Bing Maps and its Photosynth software, has now left the company to take a new job at Google focusing on machine learning. Read more...

Microsoft updates Photosynth, adds lots of features and a preview tag

John Callaham — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:56:09 +0000

Microsoft has launched a preview version of its third generation Photosynth photo creation technology, which will allow for smoother experiences when viewing panoramic images. Read more...

Rumor: SkyDrive to add Photosynth panorama photo support

John Callaham — Sat, 25 May 2013 22:16:54 +0000

A new rumor claims that Microsoft plans to add support for uploading panorama photos to its SkyDrive website sometime in the future, based on its Photosynth software. Read more...

How to enable hidden Photosynth panorama feature in Windows 8.1 build 9385

Ben Buffone — Sat, 04 May 2013 15:09:31 +0000

Microsoft looks set to unveil Photosynth functionality in the next version of its OS, Windows 8.1. A Twitter user has found a way to enable the hidden feature which shows significant promise. Read more...

Is Microsoft bringing Photosynth to Windows 8.1?

John Callaham — Sat, 04 May 2013 11:18:04 +0000

A new report claims that an examination of the source code inside a recently leaked build of Windows 8.1 shows that Microsoft could be adding the Photosynth feature to the OS. Read more...

Microsoft has released Photosynth for Windows Phone 8

John Callaham — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:36:50 +0000

Microsoft has finally launched a Windows Phone 8 version of its Photosynth app, after previously releasing the 360 degree panorama photo app for Windows Phone 7 devices. Read more...

Microsoft prepping Photosynth for Windows Phone 8 launch

Anthony Tosie — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:34:45 +0000

In a post on its official Twitter account, Microsoft's Photosynth team has announced that the release of its popular 3D panorama creation app for Windows Phone 8 "should be weeks away." Read more...

Microsoft launches Photosynth for Windows Phone

Anthony Tosie — Wed, 30 May 2012 13:50:55 +0000

The new Photosynth app allows Windows Phone users to create full 3D panoramas from individual 2D shows, making it the first mobile panoramic application that can create a full panoramic sphere. Read more...

Microsoft and Bing launch updated Photosynth iOS app

John Callaham — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:43:03 +0000

Microsoft's Bing division has launched an updated versions of its Photosynth app for Apple's iOS devices, with some performance improvements and Twitter integration to the photo panorama app. Read more...

Photosynth in testing for Windows Phone

Paul Ferson — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:19:56 +0000

Microsoft could have shown work on a Photosynth app for Windows Phone through their website, with the app having launched on iOS almost a year ago. Read more...

Microsoft Photosynth iPhone app now available

Andrew Lyle — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:27:27 +0000

Today Microsoft released Photosynth for the iPhone, their latest iOS application on the iTunes App Store. Photosynth for the iPhone allows you to take any number of photos from within the same area and stitch them... Read more...

Microsoft demonstrates stunning new Bing Maps features

Tom Warren — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:57:17 +0000

Microsoft's Blaise Aguera y Arcas demonstrated some stunning augmented reality integration inside of Bing Maps at the ( Technology Entertainment Design) TED conference last week. Blaise Aguera y Arcas worked on the Seadragon technology at Microsoft... Read more...

Microsoft's Mobicast is PhotoSynth for real-time videos

Benjamin Rubenstein — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:37:16 +0000

New Scientist is reporting that Microsoft's Cairo, Egypt lab has a created a way to combine cell phone videos of the same scene, from multiple sources, into a single video; and they can do it... Read more...

'Your Britain in Pictures': Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:59:17 +0000

In a unique time-limited technology trial, Microsoft Live Labs offers a 3-D interactive experience to complement the BBC's "How We Built Britain" television series. Using its Photosynth™ technology, Microsoft Live Labs is announcing today... Read more...