InfoCompanions » Fluidity http://www.infocompanions.com Brain spasms of an enthusiast who loves to live at the intersection of business, innovation, process and technology Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:37:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Look! Up in the sky! It’s Virtual Earth! http://www.infocompanions.com/look-up-in-the-sky-its-virtual-earth/ http://www.infocompanions.com/look-up-in-the-sky-its-virtual-earth/#comments Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:00:00 +0000 Himanshu Sharma http://www.infocompanions.net/?p=52 Microsoft’s gives a whirlwind tour of Virtual Earth, moving up, down and through its hyperreal cityscapes with dazzlingly fluidity, a remarkable feat that requires staggering amounts of data to bring into focus. might still be ahead of the game, but even in beta, shows incredible promise. Microsoft’s visions for the product — as a provider of real-time weather and traffic data, or a realistic backdrop for game developers and IM conversations, or virtual ad space — all seem well within the limits of possibility.

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Microsoft’s Stephen Lawler offers a tour of that not only reveals the power and potential of the software itself, but also gives a global glimpse of the new virtual frontier of digital globes, the 3D Web and the metaverse.

Lawler also explores the enormous effort it takes to create the fluid blending and shifting between the multiple views and resolutions of Virtual Earth. From the satellites and airplanes that gather photo data for a top-down view to the ground vehicles and headgear-wearing pedestrians who canvas the ground for an eye-level perspective — all of it represents a monumental effort of logistics and mechanics.

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