I first saw photosynth like 6-8 months ago when It was released by Microsoft Live Lab. Watch this video as to how vision research and sea dragon platform enabled photosynth. This can find identical features in images and can guage the camera positions, This can lead to layout of image positions in 3 Dimensional space. This is amazing sign for Web 2.0 UI and can enable Virtual Reality Frameworks to give the real feel of a place.
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