Street Slide: Browsing Street Level Imagery

[anon000000000000000]

bing - fail

[Mickycond86]

Stupid thing ,useless

[GUMASI]

Looks awesome, can´t wait to test it on my own.

[GuidoMarc1]

Really cool, far superior to streetview! Hopefully it will come soon!

[Stoni41]

microsoft rules

[GreatGooglieWooglie]

Holy crap this has to be the most boring voice over ever. I am drooling and snoring right now. Literally typing this as I sleep. I could play this to a school yard of children and they would drop to the asphalt like in a nuke blast. People would say 'OMG, wtf just happened'. then they'd listen to this woman talk like a friggin dial tone and understand why. Only for a second though, b/c they too, would be snoring.

[VitoRaliffe]

Very impressive.

[CyTrain]

this is sick! love it.

[yostevodotcom]

This is wonderful innovation on Microsoft's part. They have here made great improvement upon Googles idea. Street view is Google's idea - first implemented by Google. Microsoft has created a copy and has brought along some clever innovations with their copy - Good!

[roquemocan]

@yostevodotcom I have seen Streetview's idea in a Microsoft site in the '80s, but Microsoft may have been late in bringing it to the public. So, maybe Google copied Microsoft, and now Microsoft is copying Google back! Also, Google Earth (which they bought from Keystone) is a copy of Microsoft's old Terraserver project.

[yostevodotcom]

@roquemocan Maybe so, but its interesting that you could have seen any kind of idea on a Microsoft "site" because the Web was not in existence until the 90's not to mention the scripting technology to actually pull off something like Streetview was available until after the mid-90's

[roquemocan]

@yostevodotcom

You are right, it was in the '90s (I am getting old...). Microsoft's effort was not as seamless as Streetview, as it was done with older technology. In general, if we search Wikipedia for Terraserver (Microsoft's mapping effort in the '90s), it preceded Keyhole ('00ish), which was then bought by Google...

[mistermarcusgmail]

Interesting. A Microsoft app that blows away a Google app by virtue of being on an Apple device which natively has no such functionality.

Talk about the advantages of technology.

[theflyingtinman]

@Perifractic /. Yeah right .. .superhighstreet is just a scrolling series of images. This dynamic multi-perspective panorama view is light years ahead of that. it would be like the guy who invented the wheel trying to sue Ford for building cars!

[theflyingtinman]

@Perifractic : Yeah, but the man who invented the wheel didn't copyright it .. and whether or not the person who invented simple scrolling image sets copyrighted it or not I would be willing to bet it wasn't the makers of 'Superhightstreet'. I was making that kind of thing nearly 20 years ago.

[guyndjeng]

@Perifractic don't be a hater man!! this is cool stuff

[grandstreets]

If you like Microsoft Street Slide you should try grandstreets(dot)com. They have the same view for major streets in Toronto and New York City. And it's available for you to use right now. Check it out!

[pathduck]

Wow, pretty amazing stuff. And a clever way to put some ads in there as well I guess :p

[pchackal]

Microsoft research team use an iPhone LOL

[salman06p0020]

Imagine playing GTA over this map.

[artfuture]

So much better than what I've seen from others so far...good job!

[24hihi1]

traduction:Wow this beats the street view is much better, more realistic, has incredible panoramas!

But the only thing that does not overcome is the amount of mapped streets!

[24hihi1]

Uau isso ganha do street view, é muito melhor, mais realista, tem panoramas incríveis!

Mas a unica coisa, que não supera é a quantidade de ruas mapeadas!

[chipsmithferris]

When will this be available for the Android? Microsoft may not want to support a Google operating system, but not everyone wants to be on AT&T nor does everyone buy Apple products.

[m30wlol]

8 people that thumbed down are from Google.

[apricotsnms516]

sweet now Google needs the make a consistently updating virtual world. id love to see that...

[eniac2007]

Now that i think about it, it could be a good idear to enable people to upload new images if they see something wrong. Of cause all pictures should be validated first concerning image quality and faces censured etc.

Then people could select if they want to see old good quality pictures, or more updated images which might vary in quality.

[eniac2007]

Definately cool, but the more complex and detailed these maps get, the more important i will be to have them updated. 3 years interval is way to much for store location etc. Though I doubt they have the time and money to drive around all streets in the world at least once a year.

[supertrinko]

Very slick, I'm always happy to see new competition, it pushes the technology forward.

[Oracle365]

I like how people say this is better than Google, isn't this just starting to catch up to Google and a road they paved? Was there even a street view before Google? Can someone point me to a working application of this on the web or is this video all we get? How long will it be before this is implemented.

[roquemocan]

@Oracle365 Yes, there WAS a street view (more rudimentary) in the '80s made by Microsoft (of all companies), but I think it didn't get popularized... 

[crapoartworks]

And some of you people say that Microsoft doesn't make anything good. lol

This was actually pretty damn cool.

[JackethRawreth]

Downside, image quality it crappy compared to Google Streetview's open source hardware cameras from Elphel.

[maxMillerAA]

You know...competition is awesome. Google ones ups, then MS returns the favor, then Google responds. The users win with better and better technology.

[clebus]

*yawn* a slideshow, big deal.

[necromncr]

I got "Icy Road Has Drivers Sliding" for related videos. I wonder why.. :P

[dzonatas]

Compiz for Street-View!

[ge0rgecz]

google street view is better, displays points of interests directly in actual view (augmented reality), also displays all panoramio and google web albums photos in 3d space and you can navigate trought them ... microsoft just made useless DEMO ... nothing else.

[MrJKlin]

Very amazing... Google Streetview? What's that??? ;)

[Annihilator27]

Go Bing!!!

[caturn88]

Google'll better this.

[DrSlony]

The sad thing is that there is nothing new about this, but I'm sure Microsoft will try to get their greedy hands and patent the shit out of already existing technology which others might have trouble defending.

[CaptainFaisal]

can't wait for it's introduction!

[wertstahl]

Amazing feeling. Intense atmosphere.

[JeffreyQuadra]

Here's an idea Microsoft, how about actually releasing this with all the other bing.map app features that still have yet had a chance to see the light of day, take a note from the Xbox team and actually release it when its done not wait years like Zune. Just like WP7 I can do everything that phone can with current phones here in Canada now, because you gave them time to copy you and release it, so now I don't even need WP7. IF you don't release this in the next MONTH I guarantee u Google will.

[joaofrocha]

Isn't funny that MS post this video in YouTube ... don't they have there stream video site ... ooh no they dont. Street Slide looks cute, but will break your PC or leave a backdoor open, so others break it.

[IdleGod]

Awesome! Presumably theres a patent on this... Otherwise google will implement it shortly. :)

[ClaritySWE]

When will microsoft REALIZE that it's not about how much tec, functions and text you can put in a program. It's about how the DESIGN and how user-friendly it is.

[wertstahl]

@ClaritySWE i cant help but ask if you mean that - regardless how meaningless the application is, just let it look good have a neat interface? Besides, the design of this (which is a preview) makes me actually want to use it. And google street view just made me mad.

[pedroviski2]

EPIC

[bburghdorf]

This company is about to make buku bucks. Kudos on an awesome product and solution. I was just trying to find something in streetview the other day and it took forever!

[SaggioD]

Google will have this in a week now.

[1988simondoyle]

where can you use this

[Hrymeise]

wow sehr innovativ diese Karte

[LVidealist]

Looks good, but let's wait for the final release ))

[BrokenBjartur]

Pleeeeeeeeeeease don't compete with Google! Work together on this one! You clearly have an ingenious software that would be TOTALLY F**KING AWESOME in Google earth!

[kyu3a]

Fantastic!! :-)

[rbrbran277]

I'll never leave home again.

[z00h]

hope to see it implemented soon

[humeidr]

n i thought that street view is the best n cant be defeated

[hardloop]

And as usual with Microsoft, they have a nice tech demo but won't bring it to market.

[UncleWolf5]

Wow - sieht gut aus! :-O

[RobbyLee89]

Good Streetview copy

[Kerian23]

Google's method isnt terrible, however the transition takes awhile and in an attempt to save bandwidth you have to manually load each bubble when you want it, instead of getting bubbles to pre-load, meaning it takes even longer and is more frustrating.

This looks fairly nice, but i wonder if it wont suffer from the same loading problem.. How do you save bandwidth, but also deliver enough information to someone to make their experience productive and satisfying? Slow loading is still a problem.

[jansensan]

functionality is quite impressive, ui and visual presentation need a lot more work i believe.

[CordellCP3]

Looks amazing! Hope they`re going to port this for the upcoming Windows Phone 7! :)

[MANIACmecha]

i love goole. - but this rules...

[BestM8ts12]

hmm !

[timon1973]

I hope they bring it out soon!

[utgfilms]

thats pretty cool

[xnlb]

Nice job.

[animeking]

Bing: Were not Google! WERE NOT!

[hughtub]

I just had to try bing's maps again, and damn it's amazingly fast compared to last time. I had to dl silverlight (maybe that's why it wasn't as fast before?) but seriously, it's better than google maps for me now. They have improved it a lot. This will only make it that much better. Great idea, allowing the most relevant part of the street level imagery to be quickly visualized, and marking the businesses too!

[MyFatTube]

omg, this is far superior to google. their technique frustrates me

[WrongMovie]

@MyFatTube psst google already bought it i guess ;)

they buy everything the cannot do by them self

[mbe102]

I love how competition in Technology gives us such amazing things.

[AustralianBushman]

@mbe102 I wonder if technology (and humanity for that matter) would evolve faster and better if we were to cooperate instead of compete?

After all, it's cooperation between people and companies that makes technology like this possible, even if it means being gobbled up by the likes of Microsoft and Google.

Nonetheless this is great technology.

[hughtub]

@AustralianBushman Non-destructive competition is essentially cooperation. As long as competitors are strong enough to withstand one another's competing improvements, both improve over the long run, and cooperation becomes natural where it has a higher benefit than competition. Maybe MS is learning that their attempts to outdo apple in hardware aren't worth it and will innovate in software more. This Street Slide looks amazing, and I'm not a big fan of MS generally.

[AustralianBushman]

@hughtub What is "non-destructive competition", and if it's essentially cooperation, then why not just cooperate? The nature of competition is working against each other, not with each other. This is great for business and making money, but doesn't mean it's great for people, design or technology.

[hughtub]

@mbe102 ...and how lack of competition in government (govt is a monopoly service provider) leads to stagnation and immense waste of tax money we all could be funneling into great private business advances in standard of living and efficiency like this!

[Macmittens411]

Google street what?? What's that? Im sorry I only know about Microsoft Street slide..... It's Electric!

[iamhonestjohn]

Google Maps just got a hard kick in the nuts. Microsoft needs to launch this in every country while the competition is down ASAP! No doubt Google has one hand cradling its googles and one hand already on its keyboard trying to catch up. If MS keeps this momentum going and continues to out-innovate, they have a good chance of getting more people to switch over to Bing. If they wait too long and don't roll out these services globally and quickly enough, all this progress will count for nothing.

[th3wildwolf]

iPhone Bumper WIN (for Microsoft)

[theghengiskhan]

WOW... WOW... WOW... this so kicks Google Streetview's ass!!!

[manoo205]

@theghengiskhan Too bad I cannot use it on Ubuntu. And I am not going to spend 100 euros in an OS just for bing map.

[theghengiskhan]

@manoo205 ok Mr. Opensource advocate. Then why don't you make a port so that Silverlight runs in Ubuntu? Personally I do use a couple of open source OS's, but I still have Windows because it's what 99% of the world population uses, so that's what I chose to program for, since that's where the money is.

[manoo205]

@theghengiskhan I apologize for the way I express myself, it is just that I was so excited to use it and well this only happens to me with microsoft, which is normal of course they must defend their SO. I am not a radical on opensource as I might looked like, I just start to use it because my work requires it. And then for watching movies and playing flash games is good enough. So summarizing, the application is awesome and is nice to see that Microsoft is trying it hard again.

[h2osuperfly]

yeah, USE that iphone...

[iamhonestjohn]

@h2osuperfly lol

[sadfountains]

but there's more to gmaps than the streetview so i guess i'll check bing only when i do need more details on streetview. but good job microsoft!  (just make sure your maps load fast coz last time i checked... )

[skado444]

I think this is real cool, but I think the shops they should be showing should be the ones on the alternate side of the street.. Not the ones that are in your view.

[sadfountains]

very cool!

[lookformaat]

I'm the 6666th either. I guess that the viewers counter is gone mad :P

[ackoolness]

im the 6666th viewer. OMG!!!

[anwarchandra]

I'm the 6666th viewer

[Patrix8558]

@anwarchandra no...I am 6666th viewer :) :D

[oxology]

6666 views!

[xxthunderbird46xx]

in-freakin'-credible..way to think outside the box Microsoft. (*pats on the back)

[sterlingman]

This is very cool.

[IUSECAMERAS]

damn daz reeeaalll dope.

[pebre79]

I want this feature NOW! Way to go, Microsoft! :)

[iHyperik]

..... just to easy/cool, release this for windows phone 7!!!!!! 7th big reason I want that phone. lucky number?

[Ashitaka255]

Nice but it would be pretty hard to keep up to date when it comes to the the street info like shops.

[caughtupinthematrix]

this is uber-cool

[GuruSY]

Get  your street view trucks out on the road MS this is pretty awesome!

[Frap357]

They should map it to 3D and make me run around in town in first person perspective like an FPS game.

[cynamoonstudios]

@Frap357 haha, grand theft auto IRL!!!

[KiranGlitch]

so when is this actually going to be applied to Google Earth??!

[doomtomb3]

I like this idea a lot but when you switch sides of the street or turn, it makes me feel sick =X

[bahorized]

@unreal030 actually apple gets the credit for this :)

For making M$ move their asses and do some work, instead of bullshitting aroung like they did the last 20 years ;)

[AustralianBushman]

@bahorized Apple or Google?

[bahorized]

@AustralianBushman Well, google just followed, right?

[responsefunction]

@unreal030 its just being made for the iPhone, its not developed by apple. be quiet.

[jorjlim]

Am I the only one that thinks the words that beginning were really unnecessarily complicated?

[sjpos]

@jorjlim Absolutely. IT was like an extended Dilbert comic. Way to academic/pretentious. Clarity should be the objective, not impressive word usage.

[AustralianBushman]

@sjpos The description says the video accompanied a SIGGRAPH paper, so it makes sense that the target audience are academics. This obviously isn't a promotional video for a new product by Microsoft or Apple :)

[PeterRattew]

Looks amazing.. just doesn't look that pretty. It could do with some apple magic ;]

[windsorus]

@PeterRattew y bring apple out of no where. Apple is not even on par for their maps conpared to Google's.

[Mistuke]

@windsorus Great but... you are aware that this was a Microsoft demo right?

[windsorus]

@Mistuke yea, i know. The problem is Bing maps and yahoo!'s are just behind google's. So whats with bringing up Apple? If microsoft will need Apple magic or "magic" one day, thats will be when Apple bought over Microsoft.

[mubabasel]

Bing maps are OUT OF DATE so hard..

[oxygenromania]

go to bing,com/maps to see Bird's Eye View, after you zoom in on a city. It's just simply better than any other online maps.

[psych2l]

Thanks Microsoft for giving Google more good ideas :D

[clumma]

Microsoft has the industry's best technology, but because of its dysfunctional business unit, it cannot bring it to market.

[heroofyourtime]

funny how they're developing the mobile version on the iphone rather than a WP7.

[bufbarnaby]

Much better than Google`s system ! And I have a Droid , but might switch to WP 7 ; )

[HermesTheMessanger]

Awesome! Bring this to bing Now!

[Maleboligia]

I use Google Streetview at work a lot, this would be MUCH better. Hope to see it one day!

[katatonic]

Bing!

[enantiomer2000]

cool.