The movie below details a spherical display under the name of Panorama Ball Vision: The display seems suitable for use with Google Earth or any panoramic based imagery, we don’t think the masks in the picture are due to any harmful output from the actual device… See http://zeroworks.jp/index.html for more…
We have been big fans of the Photosynth technology here at digital urban, it has huge potential for portraying the cityscape from the level of external architecture through to inside buildings and down to individual objects. Microsoft have just launched Photosynths integration with Virtual Earth along with some tweaks to…
We knew this was coming and indeed it was possible via other routes but its still quite a notable move with ESRI teaming up with Microsoft to offer Virtual Earth directly within ArcGIS. The full announcement is below: ESRI Expands Virtual Earth Access in GIS by Teaming with Microsoft ArcGIS…
Tilt Shift photography is perfect for creating pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs. Thankfully you no longer need an expensive lens or a moderate level of expertise with Photoshop to make them thanks to Tilt Shift Maker. Tilt Shift Maker is a free service…
The excellent Arc2Earth from Brian Flood has always had the ability to display map tiles from Microsoft, Yahoo and Ask.com as a custom layer in your map. What is new in the current beta release is the ability to directly embed the API from Microsoft and Google into ArcMap –…
Touch tables, touch tablets and touch phones are all well and good to explore the emerging interfaces and applications of computing but if you spend most of your day immersed in digital geography you really need something more ‘earth’ shaped. Step forward Microsoft with the first demonstration of the ‘Touch…
We have always had a soft spot for trueSpace, the 3D software package from Caligari. It was one of the first modellers we used back 10 years ago for ActiveWorlds. Google SketchUp has been without question the tool of choice in recent times with its direct link to the 3D…
The video below details CamSpace a program that quickly and easily allows the user to set up object tracking to emulate mouse or joystick movement/clicks. This means that any PC (Mac and Linux coming soon) application or game could be controlled simply by using gestures. It has a lot of…
*UPDATE* The Booklet is now Sold Out **** We are pleased to announce the availability of our booklet: Digital Geography – Geographic Visualisation for Urban Environments. Printed in full colour the 10 x 8 inch booklet runs to 64 pages of insights and tutorials on Virtual Earth, Google Earth, Google…
Our booklet: Digital Geography – Geographic Visualisation for Urban Environments has just come back from the printers and its looking good (even if we do say so ourselves). Printed in full colour the 10 x 8 inch booklets runs to 64 pages of insights and tutorials on Virtual Earth, Google…
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