Microsoft Updates Its Photosynth Panorama App for iPhone

Microsoft has updated Photosynth, its interactive panorama capture and sharing app for the iPhone.

Photosynth for iOS is the panorama creation app that makes it easy and fun to capture and share interactive panoramas of the places, people, and events that are important to you. Using the latest in computer vision techniques, Photosynth allows you to not only make a panorama from left to right, but also up and down, enabling you to capture a full "sphere".

Features:
- See your panoramas take shape as you capture them with INTERACTIVE CAPTURE
- Look and capture in all directions with FULL-SPHERE PANORAMAS
- See the final panorama right away with fast ON-DEVICE PROCESSING
- Sharp, seamless results with the ADVANCED IMAGE STITCHING ENGINE
- Panoramas are always available to view and share from the ON-DEVICE LIBRARY
- Explore the world's best panoramas every day with BEST OF BING MAPS
- Zoom, pan, and rotate your panorama in any direction with our IMMERSIVE VIEWER
- Save your panoramas to the cloud and view them online at PHOTOSYNTH.NET
Sharing:
- Share to Facebook with images or interactive panoramas
- Share to Bing Maps to see your panoramas throughout Bing
- Share to Email to send images of your panoramas directly to friends
- Your panorama images are available to any app from the Camera Roll
Photosynth's unique capture experience requires an iPhone 3Gs, iPhone 4, iPad 2, or iPod Touch (Fourth Generation).


What's New:
- Best of Bing Maps: See the very best panoramas from around the world (and submit your own!)
- Summer Xbox Contest: The best panorama entry each week wins an Xbox with Kinect
- Email Sharing: Crop and send images of your panoramas via email
- Streamlined Sharing: Publish to Facebook and Bing Maps at the same time
- Camera Roll: Crop your panoramas inside the app and save them to the device
- Bug Fixes: Multiple fixes from v1.0 including Windows Live ID sign in issues
- Flexible Licensing: Change the third-party sharing rights of your panoramas
- More Places: Choose from a wider variety of places to associate with your panorama

You can download Photosynth from the App Store for free.

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