360 degree views via Photosynth
Getting a better view of scenes and objects is common to many industries, whether claims in insurance, appraisals in banking, or views of objects or scenes relating to legal matters. Photosynth is a technology which stitches together a series of photos into a contiguous view by finding the commonalities and putting them together across a series of Photographs.
The Photosynth site has a series of these collections as demonstrations: http://labs.live.com/photosynth
Additionally, I went to the site and recorded a view of the Space Shuttle Endeavor on the launch pad here:
http://cid-7f7df196e1c4ba51.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Blog%20Content/Photosynth1.wmv
Interestingly, I found that the combination of running Community Clips to record the video and audio, and running the 3D graphics of Photosynth to be a little taxing to my laptop, thus the stutter effect to he audio,
