Interesting news. but i wonder if one has to use special three D monitors to view these 3 D images.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Vikas Kapoor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Access India" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 6:09 PM Subject: [AI] Users can "fly" over cities using MS's online apps > Users can "fly" over cities using MS's online apps > > Nov 13, 2006 > > NEW YORK: With the launch of a new online application unveiled by > Microsoft, users will be able to "fly" over cities and in between > buildings just like > they do in virtual-reality environments. > > Known as Virtual Earth 3D, this new technology lets users view a > three-dimensional map of, initially, 15 US cities when they use 'Live > Search', the Newsweek > said. > > With the upgraded Virtual Earth 3D, Microsoft has edged ahead of Google in > at least one aspect of the race to bring immersive maps to the Net. It has > added > a missing piecephotorealistic buildings that sprout from the ground and > evoke the lifelike but illusory world of "The Matrix," it said. > > For now, it's merely a novel way to spend some time. But if Microsoft > continues to add new cities and improves an already expensive project, the > 3-D Web > could become a carbon copy of the real world and a powerful new platform > on which to blend advertising, social networks, search and e-commerce, the > report > said. > > "A seedling is being planted that could grow into a range of things that > will be very interesting," internet analyst Greg Sterling was quoted as > saying. > > "We probably don't even understand all the implications right now." > > Engineers at Microsoft understood that creating a navigable replica of the > planet might give users a more intuitive way to surf and search the > internet. > Need to get driving directions? Instead of following lines and written > directions on a map, Virtual Earth might, one day, take you on a > run-through of > your route, showing the precise landmarks where you'll make turns, the > report said. > > If you want to search a particular store whose name you have forgotten, > you can visit that neighborhood in Virtual Earth 3D and see the actual > name on the > front window of the building, Newsweek explains. > > "The most common-sense user model for the Internet is the real world," > Microsoft general manager Stephen Lawler, who heads up the Virtual Earth > project > told the magazine. > > Microsoft is also opening Virtual Earth to third-party developers. So for > example, one day a programmer might find a way to let users book a > reservation > with a mouse click right on the restaurant's front dooryard even wander > inside into a 3-D simulation of the dining room to pick a table. The > biggest challenge > was generating a realistic 3-D world without breaking the bank. > > Microsoft wants to add 100 more 3-D cities to Virtual Earth by next > summer. It has also hired Minnesota-based Facet Technology to drive city > streets and > take millions of high-resolution photographs of stores, homes and street > > http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/422637.cms > > Vikas Kapoor, > MSN ID: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo ID: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Skype ID: dl_vikas > Mobile: (+91) 9891098137. > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
