After reading a post on Ogle Earth about stereo views in Google Earth we thought we would revisit a previous post on the 3D Euston Tower and create a 3D view of New York.
If you sit back from the monitor and view the image, the city floats in front of your screen – interesting but not much use, ultimately a Friday thing to do…
You can view a full screen version of the image here.
JC Francois’s site NoirExtreme was a life saver when i found i had to step into give a lecture to the British Council on Global Warming.
This obviously requires a highly polished visualisation of the earth linking data relevant to climate change and thus demonstrating how new technologies cna be used to inform the public. Its a no brainer to use Google Earth but for a intro movie 3D Max can produce a more professional output.
Francois has a tutorial on creating a digital earth complete with lens flare – allowing a intro movie to be rendered overnight in time for the mornings talk.
Google Earth is impressive but for pure visualisation you cant beat a good rendering in 3DMax.
JC Francois’s site NoirExtreme was a life saver when i found i had to step into give a lecture to the British Council on Global Warming.
This obviously requires a highly polished visualisation of the earth linking data relevant to climate change and thus demonstrating how new technologies cna be used to inform the public. Its a no brainer to use Google Earth but for a intro movie 3D Max can produce a more professional output.
Francois has a tutorial on creating a digital earth complete with lens flare – allowing a intro movie to be rendered overnight in time for the mornings talk.
Google Earth is impressive but for pure visualisation you cant beat a good rendering in 3DMax.
Microsoft Live Local have released a Technology Preview – tagged as being powered by Virtual Earth – which allows users to get street-level views of the Seattle and San Francisco city centers through the windshield of a car.
The concept is similar to the street level views from A9.Com Maps with the addition of views looking up and down the road with overlays, if required, of an in-car view.
It is not however anywhere near as successful in terms of interface implementation as A9.Com Maps. The in car view is ‘tacky’ giving the Live Local system an air of a cheap computer game from the early 90’s. To compound this you are given the option to navigate with the keyboard which is almost impossible to use as its often difficult to stay on the streets. More interesting to note is the inclusion of a Microsoft XBox 360 controller on the cars dashboard – a hint that the system could come to the XBox Microsoft Live Service perhaps?
Microsoft Lives’ Preview is currently a poorly implemented series of screen grabs made from an in-car mounted video. We hope the future of Virtual Earth is brighter than this…
