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0 pointsandybak6y ago0 comments

Thanks. Now I'm sad and angry (again) about Photosynth being cancelled as well as sad and angry about Notre Dame!

Microsoft canned Photosynth and seemed to make very little effort to preserve all the content.

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This is the problem with these tech giants: they come up with cool stuff, and then abandon it because it isn't making enough money, but then they don't at least put it out there for other people to adopt.

Google is especially guilty of this.

LeoPanthera6y ago

The concepts behind Photosynth are alive and well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogrammetry

regularfry6y ago

They canned it as a product, but the tech is still alive. You see echoes of it crop up in press releases every now and then.

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