Archive for the 'earth' Category

Google Maps Street View

Posted in earth, visualization, web2.0 on Jun 1st, 2007

Yowza!

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Wiimote and Google Earth

Posted in earth on Apr 1st, 2007

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3D display of 3D virtual environments

Posted in augmentation, earth, future, secondlife, visualization on Feb 3rd, 2007

The University of Michigan 3D research group created a  low-cost 3D projection display.
Note, the cost on this is coming down to around $5k. Why is this interesting? Well, we could actually get a 3d display of virtual environments such as Second Life and Google Earth.
Turns out the open-sourcing of the SL client enabled researchers [...]

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The truth about Google Earth

Posted in earth on Jan 8th, 2007

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Unmanned remote viewing and mapping into Google Earth

Posted in earth on Jan 7th, 2007

From the [Google Earth Blog](http://gearthblog.com)

[As Frank Taylor writes](http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/01/watch_remote_control.html):
The company Pict-Earth, has released these videos on their web site. The guy can view the images in real-time with VR goggles. Later, the images can be shown in Google Earth. This has got to be one of the cooler things I’ve seen done [...]

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