Believe it or not - it's been 2 years since I first wrote about Photosynth technology. Today Microsoft made it available to the public. It's not a tool (yet) - like I wanted - right now but it's built into this website - so you have to upload your pictures, they are processed and then you can browse on this website... well it's a start for a really great technology.

"We’re pleased to announce the first full release of Photosynth, available now at photosynth.com.  Photosynth takes a collection of regular photographs and reconstructs the scene or object in a 3-D environment.  For those of you who have seen the videos or tried our tech preview, you could experience synths that we made in the lab and get a feel for what Photosynth is and how it works.  But now, for the first time ever you can create synths from your own pictures and share them with your friends.  Explore great synths from others or create a few of your own."

It's not going to work on anything different than Windows. So stick to the movies if you're on anything else. But as far as I know it'll run o

Source 1: http://photosynth.net/Default.aspx
Source 2: http://www.schrankmonster.de/PermaLink,guid,fdc3d1fb-4966-418b-83ea-1e0c12aae833.aspx