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Home : Blogs : Barrett Powell : Living in The Rural Triangle

Use Microsoft Photosynth To Create Your Own Virtual Tours.

A few months ago I stumbled upon this new technology out of the Microsoft Live Labs called Photosynth. Now I have had photo stitching software technology before to do my own virtual tours. Anyone remember the now defunct PixMaker from PixAround?

But Microsoft is on to something here. I mean the tehcnology is too easy to use and it creates some very interesting results from just a few photos. Check out one of my properties I just shot at this link:

http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=31d2bd71-5459-41d8-ac2f-f9c4b4882718&m=false&i=0:0:2&c=-2.86807:0.487276:-0.149891&z=634.793111364547&d=2.25103601356661:-2.43026286225491:-2.52410909914677&p=0:0

Basically all I did was go out and walk a big circle around the house shooting a photo every few feet. But instead of just shooting in a perfect line, I just threw the photos together, sometimes walking up and taking a closer photo of the rock work or the wrap around porches. The system figured out how to place the photo in my "synth" so that it flowed in with the other photos. The resulting 3-D effect once you have gone completely around the house in the tour is really stunning.

To understand how to take photos for Photosynth, go here:

http://photosynth.net/howtosynth.aspx

Like I said, I am truly amazed at how this technology works. And Microsoft is making it free. In fact you get 20GB of space to use for your "synths". The technology works equally well shooting inside of the property. You just stand in a corner and shoot while sweeping the camera from one of the oposite corners to the next. Then you can stand in the middle of the wall and do the same for additional perspectives.

So give it try. You have nothing to loose except more exposure for your listings.

Posted by Barrett Powell on 06/18/2009 02:07 PM

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6 Comments on Use Microsoft Photosynth To Create Your Own Virtual Tours.

JUN

2009

Interesting, thanks for the tip. I'll try it out!

Interesting tool - will have to check this out and take it for a spin.

JUN

2009

Hi Barrett,

I checked out your synth. I really liked the ease of touring with this tool. Thank you for sharing it.

Thanks Rebecca,

This was my first attempt at doing a "synth" for the ourside of a house. Knowing what I know now, the next one will be much better. The secret is to take a bunch of photos, make sure you are evenly spacing the angle around the house, and try and maintain the same distance from the house completely around the house. You can also throw in some detail photos and zooms to highlight key areas of the house or yard you want to showcase by taking sequentially closer shots of the item you want to feature, moving closer to the object with each shot.

For someone willing to learn how to use Photosynth, I'm convinced you can create some truly inviting photosynth tours.

DEC

2009

I'm playing with the program today and I CAN"T figure out where to get the htmll code or imbedding code for websites and blogs. Can you help me?

i figured it out. It took me all afternoon but I got it finally.

Thanks

http://activerain.com/blogsview/1370124/photosynth-2nd-go-around-i-m-not-letting-raincamp-members-get-ahead-of-me

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Barrett Powell

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Southern Advantage Realty, Inc.

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