There's nothing standard about Photosynth technology, and there's nothing standard about the way we're putting it together, either.

We started with an amazingly fruitful collaboration between the University of Washington and Microsoft Research. We rolled in the luscious visualization technology of the recently acquired Seadragon startup, the speed and compression goodness of the new Windows Media Photo format, the product prowess of the PIX team, and the internet expertise of the Windows Live Local product group. Thrown together in the fertile soup of Live Labs this organic structure is evolving into something quite new - a team with the boldness of a research organization and the shipping discipline of a product group.