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Emerging Tech

Up Close: Photosynth

Photosynth - an application from Microsoft Live Labs - takes a large collection of photographs of these a specific location or object and analyzes them for similarities.

July 27, 2010 • 
Jessica Jones
Someone surfing the Internet can now glimpse what it might be like to stand in Venice's Piazza San Marco, shown here, the Piazza San Pi

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