This application analyzes a group of images and looks for similar distinctive features across photos — when a particular feature is found in multiple images the 3D positional data can be calculated and the photos can be arranged in an interactive manner. Video after the break.
It’s a bit of software that takes a huge collection of photos of a single place—say all the Flickr pictures tagged with that location name—and organizes them into a 3D landscape. What this gets you is the ability to pan, scroll and zoom across many pictures and get the feeling like you’re actually there
[via Gizmodo]