At the Apple WWDC conference, Apple put up 20 large 30-inch LCD displays, showcasing the icons of 20,000 of the most popular apps found on the App Store today. Every time that someone downloads an app, its icon bounces up and down. Andreas Douglas and Greg Pascale who were at the conference decided to take some pictures and put them all into PhotoSynth. Check it out, it turned out very nicely. The photos were taken with an iPhone. A reminder, to check it out, you will need to have the Microsoft Silverlight plugin installed (about 18MB).

If your not sure what Photosynth (see our first coverage) is, the app lets you upload multiple photos and then it creates one cinematic panorama 3D 360 degree view. Photosynth analyzes each photo and uses the

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Update: Microsoft has released its first iPhone application, Seadragon. The app is free and lets you zoom into pics from Photosynth and other photos on your iPhone. This is also available on PCs with SilverLight as well. SilverLight will not be coming to the iPhone.

Photosynth is a relatively new service from Microsoft Labs. The service lets you upload multiple photos and then it creates one cinematic panorama 3D 360 degree view. Photosynth analyzes each photo and uses the data to build a model of where the photos were taken. It then re-creates the environment to display the photos. It does seem pretty kool after I tested it out, but you do need to install an application that includes the browser plug-in and the application to create the panorama photos.