Must See! Microsoft's Photosynth Makes Photos a 3D Experience

Is Photosynth.net a beta? From the Web site: "What you see on this site is the first of many versions of Photosynth. Call it beta, call it 1.0, call it whatever you want… just know we are hard at work adding support for more browsers, more platforms, and more hardware, and just making the experience that much more amazing."

The nimble Photosynth team definitely has some interesting things it wants to explore. Think possible Mac and Flickr support, groups, favorites, RSS feeds, scripted tours, private synths, greater Virtual Earth integration, and an open API for mashups. Then there's the game-changing feature first alluded to a couple of years ago: cross-linking between the synths of various users or even combining photos of the same place--taken by different people, at different times--into one giant supersynth to rule them all.