Designs on the future - Smart Photos
In the future, Photosynth could make your photos smarter....
The technology preview gives you a taste of the potential for Photosynth, and we've got lots of ideas of how Photosynth could evolve!
What is that tower called? Just photograph it.
Photosynth could eventually connect you to everything on the Web related to it.
Photosynth begins by processing an image and creating a point cloud that gives the image a unique identifier, a DNA-like profile that describes the features that have been recognized in the image.
Once you have this "image DNA", things can get really interesting: Photosynth could show you other photos that have similar features to the one you're currently viewing.
Annotations, tags, or even URLs could one day be applied to an image and transferred to similar images.
Photosynth could connect your photographs into a seamless web of images and information, allowing you to browse a virtual universe of interconnected scenes that constantly evolves and changes over time.
We hesitate to say that the possibilities are endless, but, well, there sure are a lot of them. Who can say where the future will take us? The Photosynth team isn't certain, but we are pretty darn excited about the trip. In the meantime, take the Photosynth Technology Preview for a spin, and cruise by the blog if you've got any destination ideas.