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As NASA awaits the newly rescheduled launch of its latest mission, Microsoft has been busy creating a “3D montage” of the space shuttle Endeavour. According to the team, this venture will enable individuals around the globe to “view 3D images of Endeavour and surrounding buildings at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida before it launches into space.” The environments are being constructed using hundreds of snapshots and an imaging technology dubbed Photosynth, which stitches together 2D digital images to give a three-dimensional view “that can be navigated and explored in a highly intuitive manner.” This go ’round, it seems that the goal was simply to provide a wow-factor to remote onlookers, but both entities are reportedly “looking into ways of using this new technology to support future missions.” Check out the results here.

[Via PCWorld]

 

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I’m a big fan of all the 3D imaging tools in development around the net. Microsoft’s Photosynth project is clearly the most ambitious - it takes thousands of photographs of a geographic area and constructs a 3D model that the viewer can “fly” around and view.

Tonight they are pushing a new 3D model - coverage of the Space Shuttle Endeavour on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida before launch. If you are on a Windows machine only, you can view it here. Click and drag the mouse, zoom in and out, etc.

There are other interesting projects as well - see our coverage of Everyscape, Fotowhoosh and VisualSize. See also Microsoft Street Side and Virtual Earth as well as similar efforts from Google, which should eventually incorporate a lot of this stuff into one big interactive virtual world.

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