Microsoft launched Photsynth last week and it seems to be getting a bit of applause from the tech fanboys. It is actually very clever. You upload a bunch of photos from different angles of the same scene and it creates a 3D navigable image. This is very early technology but you can see in the future, this could be very powerful (imagine all the images of Flickr, meshed together!!)
Apart from the obvious:
It could also be used to explore smaller objects in great detail:
Unfortunately you need to install software (windows only) to make it work, but it is worth it to see the future.
I haven’t made one myself yet but I am looking forward to it.
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