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Ms virtual earth 3d11/13/2022 ![]() Thanks goes to Frank from the Google Earth Blog for the heads up regards the beta release, we were too wrapped up modelling a church in Newham, London, to notice. Its good to know that even the big players need a little help sometimes. Time for a new job? Do you want fries with that?Īs a side note, they have not featured London yet, and we have a model ready to roll if anyones interested, they do however feature the London Eye which is back to front. The question now is what happens to all the other visualisation companies building cities out there? Sure there will still be a market for high end visualisation but the bar just got raised, combine this with the forthcoming Microsoft Photosynth and a number of people (including myself) must be getting twitchy and looking at their CV’s. #MS VIRTUAL EARTH 3D MAC#Below we feature a flythough of Boston for all those Firefox or Mac users out there that are unable to use Virtual Earth: City building is still time consuming but if you have enough corporate backing they can be built and visualised. How did they make all of these models? Its basically all down to money. It is too early to do a Google vs Microsoft comparison, but for shear eye candy Virtual Earth is ahead of the game, albeit to a limited number of users. #MS VIRTUAL EARTH 3D DOWNLOAD#Go to the Live Search page and then download the 3D Maps. Microsoft’s Virtual Earth however streams in the data in such a way that performance is impressive considering the amount of textures on display. There is now available a 3-D version of Microsofts Virtual Earth. Where as Google Earth’s 3D Warehouse allows similar detail, you have to download individual buildings and slow down is notable when over 5 or so landmarks are selected. We've discussed Google Earth other 3D mapping applications include Microsoft's Virtual Earth 3D and NASA's World Wind. Major cities all feature 3D models of virtually all buildings and landmarks.Could this mean the end for autogen and the hello to true 3D buildings that are being pulled from a MS cluster Certain. Running directly in the browser (IE, XPSP2 only) Microsoft currently feature 15 cities in 3D, but not the Google Earth type 3D, fully texture mapped 3D direct from the server. Microsoft just launched their response to Google Earth and the results are nothing short of stunning. We all knew it was coming, David Maguire of ESRI’s forthcoming own Virtual Earth – ArcExplorer – mentioned some time back that Microsoft were ‘hoovering up data’, but now its out in Beta Release, Microsoft’s Virtual Earth 3D is impressive. ![]()
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