15/02/10 18:14

AR Augmented reality meets mapping on Bing maps

by Josep M. Ganyet

Posted in Photography, The real world, Why didn't I think of that? | No Comments » Tweet This Post

Impressive demo by Blaise Anguera at TED talks of augmented-reality maps, a blend of Bing Maps and user generated photos glued together with Microsoft’s Photosynth technology.

In simple words: take Google Street View and a gazillion of geolocalized pictures from Flickr (made by people like you and me) and put them all over the place according to their coordinates and orientation.

You get up to date pictures of every imaginable corner of our (digitized) world plus the ability to navigate inside closed spaces which I guess makes Google quite envious.

To experience it you need to download Microsoft Silverlight and head to bing.com/maps.

Here’s a nice link to a Photosynth of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.

Link: Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps | Video on TED.com

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