A while ago I’ve written about Microsoft’s Photosynth, an interesting beta technology which takes a bunch of photos, analyzes the content on the photos and creates a 3D environment based on the actual objects in space, captured in the photos.

At the time, I was quite excited by the technology, but Robert Scoble commented on the article and rained on my parade, saying that it takes many computing hours to create one of those 3D experiences. You can read the original Photosynth article and Robert’s comment here.

However, at today’s opening of the Microsoft WinDays conference there was talk about Photosynth, and it seems to me that Robert was wrong about it. A new Photosynth 3D experience was on display, one containing the city of Opatia where the Windays conference is held. Furthermore, while the speaker was on the stage, one Microsoft guy took a couple of pictures of the conference hall and created a quick and dirty, but fully functional Photosynth experience from that.

This brings back my faith into this technology; if one person can create a Photosynth 3D experience in a couple of minutes, then the technology is probably ready (or almost ready) to be implemented - for example - in a service like Flickr, which makes it very exciting. I’ll try to take a hold of Photosynth people and find out more about it in the next couple of days.