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It was the first to add mouse wheel scroll zooming, which Google Maps has added. Here's why (adapted from a post I wrote in a previous story that didn't get much attention): I use Live Local/Virtual Earth almost exclusively. Pretty detailed shots too, and in one you could even see me mowing the lawn in the backyard! I had lots of fun with this one.Īctually, I think it is a threat. When I plugged in my address (which is kind of in the middle of nowhere), up popped 3 different viewing angles of my house. I’m going to try to grab an image of a billboard when I can.Every once in a while, Microsoft does something right. Google’s got some catching up to in regards to image detail. Lastly a very nice looking shot found on the Virtual Earth blog. See the following two shots of San Francisco, Virtual Earth 3D on the left and Google Earth on the right. In addition to integration of Virtual Earth with search and some browsers, another thing you have to give Microsoft credit for is seriously improved picture quality. See also the 3D photo fly through app in the works in Live Labs, called Photosynth. You’ve also got to wonder if anything will ever come of the really impressive Street-Side preview, which we wrote about in February.
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I don’t know what I expected though, so I’ll wish Vista-ready Windows owners who use IE the best of luck in enjoying the use of a newly 3D virtual world. It seems like a cynical priority when a dazzling new technology is first rolled out. I certainly have no inherent objection to advertising, but I’m not excited about it being the first thing I see when I gain the ability to see a new environment in 3D.
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Figueroa would not discuss the particular relationship with the first wave of advertisers but said that the company would evaluate all methods of ad sales and tracking in order to determine what worked best.
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Figueroa said that billboards would have to prove compelling to users or they would not zoom in close enough to view them in detail and click through. To insufficiently brand Virtual Earth would apparently be irresponsible in some way, perhaps as an artistic or cultural loss. In real life, soda machines don’t appear with black or white labels – they say Coke or Pepsi on them, he told me. He also told me that advertising was being integrated into Virtual Earth for the sake of realism. The imagery was taken from planes and processed with proprietary algorithms. Search team member Bobby Figueroa told me that the 3D functionality would be useful to many business customers as an integrated feature in offerings like Zillow’s real estate search. Unlike Google Earth, Microsoft’s Virtual Earth is experienced directly inside of IE as part of search results. Virtual Earth 3D is expected to expand to cover up to 100 cities around the world by the end of next summer.
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US users with Vista-ready Windows computers and IE 6 or 7 will be able to navigate through an aerial view of 15 select cities with enough detail to discern the texture of buildings and read clickable billboards from the likes of Fox, Nissan and John L. Microsoft is unveiling its integration of detailed 3D imagery into its Virtual Earth this afternoon (see ).