Posts from ‘October, 2007’

Microsoft Virtual Earth adds Birds-Eye View to 3D Globe

Microsoft Virtual Earth adds Birds-Eye View to 3D Globe: “
We all somewhat guess this would be coming around and tonight Microsoft releases Birds-eye View for their 3D Globe. They’ve taken those great Birds-eye View images from the 2D maps and using Photosynth they stiched them all together to create a ‘3D World’. Now [...]

System Enables Any Digital Camera to Produce Interactive, Multibillion-Pixel Panoramas

Carnegie Mellon University researchers, working with NASA Ames Research Center scientists, have developed an inexpensive robotic device that allows any digital camera to take gigapixel panoramic photographs, known as GigaPans. The technology is being used by students to document their communities and by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to make Civil War sites accessible on the [...]