Taipei’s MRT through the eyes of Microsoft’s Photosynth
It is rare enough to be mentioned: I find Photosynth, a Microsoft-owned program, to be impressive and pleasant enough to use.
It would have been awesome and great and “I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-butter”-good if only the feature it was built around in the first place was usable outside the app, though. Considering it’s an image-based app, it would only have made sense that you could share the pictures in a way that enabled you and your friends to navigate 360 degrees through the pics. Cause that’s what it does within the app.
Once saved to your drive, the pics look like this:
Above is a 90 degrees view inside the metro in Taipei (MRT blue line)
Here is a 180 degrees view of a station (also on the blue line of the MRT):
So you see, it does look nice. But I sure as hell would like for you to be able to navigate through the pics!
Like this:
Posted on May 8, 2011, in iPhone, photography and tagged bird eye, Microsoft, MRT, Photosynth, Taipei metro. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
I sure like the half-faced and no-legged person on the left of the picture
Il est propre le métro didon.
Right, the stitching isn’t perfect… Landscapes would yield the best results I guess, because unlike people, they don’t move between pictures!
Except in Japan ! Oops.