As an aside, it's fascinating (and yes, troubling) to observe Gilbert Wong, Mayor of Cupertino, guffaw at Steve's "jokes" like a smitten schoolgirl, going so far as to fawn over his own iPad 2 in front of the assembly. For his part, Jobs seems to bite his tongue during several exchanges particularly when one city council member tries to extort free WiFi from Apple in an apparent quid pro quo. Click through to see what we mean. read more...
-->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