No no, I’m not referring to an MTV show taking place in Second Life, but rather, a newly announced product from Microsoft (they’ve really been on a roll of late; see SteveB’s post on Surface Computing if you didn’t already).

Microsoft’s Photosynth is truly remarkable. I posted last week about Google StreetView, and I was amazed at how we’re inching closer and closer to having a digital representation on the human level of the physical world in which we reside. But Photosynth really is a step further.

Blaise Aguera y Arcas and his team have come up with a product that links and overlays similar images, so all pictures of a particular building, for example, are “stitched” together and users can navigate between the images in seamless fashion, as if they were looking at the structure itself.

Check out this video to see for yourself, or try the tech preview if you like:

To see Aguera y Arcas’ talk at TED, click here.

Tags: photography, technology, video
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