Update: Photosynth Public and Live: Details
While the announcement sounds quite amazing the implementation I finally found was quite straight forward. A photosynth ” link is attached to a the point marker on the map. You click it and it opens a window in which you can see the synth. I suspect in the future we’ll see far more integration. If you want to see it on the VisitBrighton.com site (I had to contact Microsoft to figure out what to app to use and where to look…) here’s the path:
Go to the site.
Select “Things to Do”
Key in “Brighton Museum and Art Gallery” in keyword search and enable “Show Results on Map” on right side search tool.
Click on the marker for the Museum (It has an M in it).
You’ll find this when you click on the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery.
—- Original post 5/7/09——
News:
Microsoft integrated Virtual Earth and Photosynth for the first time.
What it means:
Website owners will have the ability to place Photosynth applications into their own embedded maps, using either their own imagery or drawing from existing photos in the Photosynth library. Visualization uses Silverlight. Microsoft expect hotels and travel sites to be big users.
History:
Photosynth has lived in Microsoft Live Labs in beta but will now be publicly available across the web within the Virtual Earth environment. It was launched in 2007
Sample:
VisitBrighton in the UK is one of the first organisations to announce an implementation of the new system.
Pricing:
The integration of public “synths” into an existing map will be free for website owners but commercial organisations will have to pay if they go over a limit for the number of unlisted photos used.
Images supported:
Currently only public photos loaded into Photosynth system will be available for the synths. Microsoft is still working out copyright for other images.
