Duncan Lawler - Virtual Earth 3D: What. How. Why. | Rory

dentaku

The XBOX 360 controller support is great. I just installed it and it works very well.
Unfortunately my DSL connection isn't as fast at the network at MS so the data doesn't load quite as smoothly as it did in this video.

This HAS to be re-renamed Virtual Earth.
live.local.com tells me nothing about the product and is VERY hard to remember.

figuerres
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dentaku wrote:
The XBOX 360 controller support is great. I just installed it and it works very well.
Unfortunately my DSL connection isn't as fast at the network at MS so the data doesn't load quite as smoothly as it did in this video.

This HAS to be re-renamed Virtual Earth.
live.local.com tells me nothing about the product and is VERY hard to remember.

Amen, QFT and so on...

got to get a decent domainname!

live.earth.com would be better than local.com

Jack Poison
At what price, Freedom?

dentaku wrote:
The XBOX 360 controller support is great. I just installed it and it works very well.
Unfortunately my DSL connection isn't as fast at the network at MS so the data doesn't load quite as smoothly as it did in this video.

This HAS to be re-renamed Virtual Earth.
live.local.com tells me nothing about the product and is VERY hard to remember.

LOL You mean local.live.com.. Wink

One more reason to re-name it.

"Hey, friends, check this cool thing out! It's so neat! 3D Maps! Just go to local dot live dot com, and you'll see it.."

compared to

"Hey, friends, check out Google Earth. It's so cool!" (Search for Google Earth on Google, and its the first result returned)

Guess what people will remember?

For what it's worth: I vote to change it back to Virtual Earth... If the web site isn't taken.

dentaku

Jack Poison wrote:

dentaku wrote: The XBOX 360 controller support is great. I just installed it and it works very well.
Unfortunately my DSL connection isn't as fast at the network at MS so the data doesn't load quite as smoothly as it did in this video.

This HAS to be re-renamed Virtual Earth.
live.local.com tells me nothing about the product and is VERY hard to remember.

LOL You mean local.live.com..

One more reason to re-name it.

"Hey, friends, check this cool thing out! It's so neat! 3D Maps! Just go to local dot live dot com, and you'll see it.."

compared to

"Hey, friends, check out Google Earth. It's so cool!" (Search for Google Earth on Google, and its the first result returned)

Guess what people will remember?

For what it's worth: I vote to change it back to Virtual Earth... If the web site isn't taken.

HA! That proves my point.

Actually http://www.virtualearth.com redirects to http://local.live.com/ anyway

jsampsonPC
SampsonBlog.com SampsonVideos.com

Wasn't it MS who hosted Terra-Server? Why not scrap that old app and call this the upgrade? Smiley

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

Huge potential. Might be the only reason I'm using IE Smiley

One obvious bug I found is:

The pushpin is obscured by the globe's Z-buffer whereas, it should be an overlay?

PS. It's great that you duplicated World Wind functionality in 6 MB instead of 200

Dumbledore

When they advertised "new dimension in search", I couldn't guess that they mean it "Literally"

Nice upgrade though.

AIM48

Hmmm... so many possibilites.

Once the controler model is exposed there would be so much you can do -

For example - a real autoracing game - race thru the REAL streets of the city.

Or a controler that has real aerodynamics built in...

And if the 3d models on the map support hit testing... You'd be able to detect collisions with buildings around the airport etc...

DigitalDud

Memory usage gets really high here to the point where my machine starts thrashing. (1 gig of RAM)