The video below was released on Wednesday evening to coincide with Windows President Steven Sinofsky offering the first public demo of Windows 8 at the All Things Digital conference (a.k.a. D9). In this video, Jensen Harris, director of program management for the Windows User Experience, provides a quick walk-through and promises that more video demos will be coming soon.
-->Accelerated stitching on multiple CPU cores
-->Ability to publish, view, and share panoramas on the Photosynth web site
-->Support for "structured panoramas" — panoramas consisting of hundreds of photos taken in a rectangular grid of rows and columns (usually by a robotic device like the GigaPan tripod heads)
-->No image size limitation — stitch gigapixel panoramas
-->Support for input images with 8 or 16 bits per component
-->Ability to read raw images using WIC codecs
-->Photoshop layer and large document support
Additional features
-->State-of-the-art stitching engine
-->Automatic exposure blending
-->Choice of planar, cylindrical, or spherical projection
-->Orientation tool for adjusting panorama rotation
-->Automatic cropping to maximum image area
-->Native support for 64-bit operating systems
-->Wide range of output formats, including JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, HD Photo, and Silverlight Deep Zoom