MSN Videomap Directions
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As you look at things like Bing's
Streetside, you might be thinking it would be great for something like real time driving directions. Billy Chen, a research in MSN's Advanced Engineering team, has been thinking
about this from the ground up. The result is this interesting way of connecting the visual memory humans have from having driven to a location before with a movie created from the slides from point A to B in Bing maps. Billy joined us to tell us more about
this project.
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Very nice piece of work!
What will happen when there is no available street view on some portions of the route?
There is usually no street view available for freeways, but, o boy, how often do I use them
and some ramps are very wierd, so video would be helpful there as well.
I also noticed on some of the left turns either video expanded to the right and we could not see it or it didn't expand at all.
Oh yes, WinMo Bing Maps need a lot of work. It is very unfinished product, so these video, or at least snapshots of landmarks on WinMo would be of great help.
So where's the link to the website?
This is the best link so far: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cohen/vdd_webpage/
Great choice, Larry. Bill is full of interesting ideas. I've kept an eye on what he was up to ever since watching a video of Blaise A., Eyal O., and Bill (Open in IE) talking about Virtual Earth futures a couple years back.
Niners might find useful his MSR profile, his blog where he writes up other researchers, his twitter account, or his Photosynth account which contains some interesting calibration tests for Photosynth.
While research is good but what about already commercialized videomaps?
check out www.vidteq.com
I'm sure that the Bing Maps team is working on implementing this. They simply need more Streetside footage to be captured to really apply it.
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