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  • At first I was like meh, Google does that already...then saw the live video and my mind was blown.

  • amazing

  • He's looking at Seattle!!!

  • Ahhhh I want to give him a chill pill! He seem so sweet, this is such a good presentation, he just sounds so nervous! He's making ME nervous! haha

  • I still can't wait for Seadragon to become available as a file viewer. I really want that, and it's been 3 years since it was TED talked.

  • @hughtub Hi, I know exactly what you mean. There's so much more potential than just using it in Silverlight for Deep Zoom on images.

    One thing you need to realize is that Seadragon needs images to be internally structured differently than most images are, so you would need to convert all your images to its format which would mean that most image programs wouldn't understand how to open them properly. It would also mean much more of your hard drive being used for thumbnails, essentially.

  • Fantastic work! Would love to be involved in beta testing this.

  • @caiushawk If you go to bing maps slash explore, you'll be able to use a bunch of what he's showing here. Only the live video isn't available right now.

  • time to add our pics to the global map of the destructions of the eco systems along the high and by ways  got to love it, got to love it. . . bringing home the world to me. . wait till they start loading up all the pics from the oceans . . ah, need three D all round . . and this is only the beginning

  • This video starts out slow but gets really entertaining about 1/3rd of the way through.

  • doesn't work on safari or chrome.....oh well it looked cool.

  • That button he presses at 1:28 does not actually exist on the website at all.

    what a waste of time.

  • He's using a BETA of the website, jackass.

  • well when's it going to be released?

  • It's cool technology that is taking too long to implement

  • how can you shoot me shopping from a shop and put it up without my permission? privacy, anyone?

  • maybe you shouldn't do your shopping in a public area.

  • will you tell me where can shopping be done in private? isn't stepping outside your home means you're now in a public area? or do you want me to buy everything online, even grocery? not to mention issues related to online privacy.

  • i want you to accept that public areas are by definition not private.

  • the question of how many viewers? if i go down the street around 10 to 15 ppl watch me- those who are in the surrounding. this is something else- i can be seen from anywhere in the world by any number of persons. what's your argument against that. please.

  • You seem to be under the impression that you were previously protected from this, from surveillance.

    In public - someone can follow you, take photos/video of you, take notes on everything you do, and pass this information onto an *unlimited* amount of other people anywhere in the world. All without your knowledge or permission.

    You have never been protected from this.

    The only time you have ever been protected, is in private settings.

  • of course you are correct on that. but unless i am on the list of some intelligence agency, this is a definite conclusion that this won't happen to me. however, here in this case, a random net-addict can lazily surf the site across the atlantic and spot me. now i don't want to be seen from anywhere like that! the job of the intelligence going in the hands of the general public is a breach of individual privacy. btw i am happy to find a sane debater on youtube. do reply to me.

  • let me put it like this: two wrongs dont make one right. even if i am to uneasily accept the power of the intelligence to keep an eye on me if they decide to do so, that in no way is a green flag wave to anyone seeing me from anywhere buying my grocery - in real time.

  • well.. in the post-modern information age, we're all celebrities. Now we all know how Britney Spears ect feels.

    Take solace in the fact that all empowerment of citizens ends up leveleing the playing field and increasing the power of democracy in general. Now we can spy on members of the intelligence community just as they used to spy on us. Haha so fuck you James Bond.

    Information is power, and now we ALL have it - as we should.

  • If ppl get angry over Google street view vans catching them in "unfortunate situations" on STILL PICTURES, how about getting monitored -unknowingly- REAL TIME in this fashion by 'your "neighbour"?

    Orwellian!!

  • word.

  • why don't you wear a Burqa?

  • Why don't you wear a prison suit?

  • well if you're afraid people will see you in public areas - why not wear a burqa?

    it's an obvious solution.

    if you can't handle the whole "other people can see me" aspect of public spaces.

  • dude, don't be an ass and debate without using a logical fallacy.

  • Why the low ratings? This video is amazing! Microsoft haters need to grow up.

  • I agree, innovation is never bad. It's not as though Microsoft bought out Google's mapping, it's improving. Now let Google step up to the plate again. :-)

  • At least for me it has nothing to do with hating on M$. Read my previous comment on this talk and you might get an idea of at least one reason why the ratings aren't head-over-heel.

    The map technology in it self is clever enough, but some of the prospects concerning being broadcast unknowingly doesn't merit a full five.

    They should 'just' use already known and public surveillance cams if any.

    Read up on how FB/twitter/phone-GPS helps burglars, and then couple it with this!

  • AWESOME

  • awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  • Google had this already xD

    Microsoft fail

  • Not realy.Microsoft is puting some extra elements.See whole video.

  • not really, the astronomical aspect is stolen from stellarium, search stellarium.

    The only thing that is kinda new is the live streaming which means nothing to basic users.

  • I tried to use the street view, but it required Silverlight, which wouldn't install on my mac :/ Any other mac users have this issue w/ silverlight?

  • @angelwhite i have the same issue on Linux 64 bit.

  • take "THAT" goggle

  • this is awsome haha

  • wow

  • blaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  • a hint about public speaking- don't say 'uh' or 'umm' so much XD

  • Ever since I played Invizimals Ive loved augmented reality. This is amazing.

  • This guy did the Sea Dragon talk 2 years ago...brilliant stuff.

  • I love using Bing Maps. Bing itself? Not so much ;)

  • YES

    also bing immage search is eeehh...

  • amazing

    simply cool

    & amazing

  • Amazing...

  • that's cool!

  • wow simply amazing

  • It is sad that Microsoft's reputation has been destroyed by so many dick moves in past that cool innovation from the company is automatically labeled to be crap.

    I have to admit that I too do that. MS logo on any service / product makes me instantly dislike it. I don't even feel like listening the demos or arguments for the product.

    They really need to do something about their image.

  • @pjlehtim I think the fact that they try to dominate and push competition out of the way really help destroys their image. Take DirectX vs OpenGL for example. Then there is their sloppiness from programming--blue screen of death--to xbox. 40% failure rate with their 360's. A friend of mine is on his 6th 360, while he still has his first ps3, going on three years now.

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  • People also naturally distrust large corporations.

  • That is true too. I think that may even go into people naturally distrust someone with power, wealth, etc.

  • Since we're having fun generalizing, those can even be seen as the distrust, via resentment, of those with "more".

  • Heh heh, yeah it's true though. Not of everybody of coarse. But I've heard of people keying a nice car they see in a parking lot simply because they figure the owner of said car probably doesn't deserve it, even though they've never met him.

    My favorite generalization these days are hot chicks are all psychotic. Seems to be a rule of thumb though amazingly I have met some exceptions. heh

  • Interesting! Maybe it's by region, because I've only seen that hot girls are psychotic in modern TV shows and slasher flicks. Here in California, though, it's assumed that if you're pretty that you're materialistic, stupid, hedonistic, narcissistic, and selfish. Holds true a surprising amount of the time. Most exceptions I've met were out-of-state. But we also assume that all women, regardless of attractiveness, are crazy, but I suppose a more connotativly accurate way of saying it is illogical.

  • Yeah I tend to see your generalization of women to be common around here too, but I think region may have much to do with it too. I live in a fairly grungy city, with lots of low income to on the system folks here. Could explain it maybe? But yeah, when I meet a woman that is really hot, down to earth and startlingly intelligent I almost have to do a double take. They are so rare they should be national treasures, heh. And I guess in some cases they may very well be.

  • your move Google, your move

  • If you've got paranoid tendencies, this technology will really flip you out :D

  • maybe, but they did it better.

    and why do you care, for the end user this competition only creates better product.

  • fucking doesnt hurt to have more providers for the same service though, fagots

  • Oh yeah, map making was invented by Google...

    Dumbass.

    The more competition the better. It drives inovation.

  • Bless you for being the most sensible person here. And for the MTG-inspired name.

  • except the live streaming and constellations? retard.

  • Google Earth has constellations. retard

  • really awesome still hate microsoft!

  • microsoft hates everyone too.

    so it's ok.

  • I think this was pretty cool.

  • LOL

  • WHERE THE FUCK

    IS MOOT

  • @TissuePaper1337

    google it

    his lecture was not worth shit

  • Am I the only one who is - contrary to most TED videos - absolutely NOT stunned after viewing this one? Most of it is so horribly old and has already been done, the video broadcasting is just a small step further and needed enough computing power. SO not impressed.

  • this is cool.... the amount of uses this could bring.... very cool

  • Am I the only one who has this thought frequently?:

    Why are companies trying to make finding restaurants and shit easier when it's already infinitely simple to do? Enough already... there are thousands of tools to find hotels and tickets and flights and everything else... any big company who rebuilds these kinds of tools is rehashing old stuff just to get a piece of the action. It's transparent and frustrating, and I don't buy it.

  • Understandable, but one thing they're trying to do better is improve interface. My dad can still barely use google maps, and most of the ditzes back in high school were on par. Also, sort of out of place on this video. This is really more showing off the Photosynth integration.

  • bull shit...... THEY'VE ONLY TAKE PICTURE OF LIKE 2 CITIES

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  • pointless luxury, until its integrated into some kind of police state or civilian justice, which is kind of intriguing. why not use the world's overflowin supply of out-of-date cell phones and digital cameras to monitor alleyways streets and other areas of high prostitution, theft, drug-selling etc?

  • Sort of impressive, that moving video must be really havy on the CPU.

  • I don't see the point of this either. But I think it is great when technology leaders like Microsoft, Google etc... Spend time and money developing new technology and seeing just how far they can take certain ideas. A lot of revolutionary things come out of this process.

  • good stuff

  • awsome

  • I don't see a useful application for any of this. This is just icing to try to get people to use Bing instead of Google.

  • indeed. And if you install the 3D app it tries to force all your search engines to be BING.

    And if another software puts it back, bing's app tries to DISABLE THE COMPETING SOFTWARE.

    holy shit.

  • *Goes to Bing maps!!!*

  • And they say Microsoft sucks.

    -_-"

  • WIndows sux... and the companys support of capitalism brings bad press.... this, and ideas like it, is awsome!!!!!

  • Oh, the photosynth guy.

  • awesome

  • Holy crap! Screw Second Life, Bing's got First Life! How do I do the map integrated live video?

  • A much improved google map

  • I just bookmarked the site. The Seadragon application alone makes it amazing.

  • this is a very cool program but scary as fuck

    BIG BROTHER to a new level

  • oh no, not information!

    MY ONLY WEAKNESS

  • Okay that's officially fucking awesome. That's going to become industry standard pretty quick.

  • @ratholin I'm amazed how quickly Bing has not only caught up with google maps but also added their own original ideas.

  • @celshader well it's easy to piggyback off another's ideas and add a feature. Remember the zune? the ipods that talked to each other technically brilliant but too feature rich and complicated. When you see that giant screen of Bing things he pulls up to do things on the map average person goes "too complicated" geeks go "neeeeat". Next gen google maps will have the same features only slimlined. Feature creep is a big problem of the modern user.

  • Very impressive. In the future, imagine people tuning into life news coverage (video footage) at certain locations.

  • HOLY CRAP

  • GIVE US m00t!!!!!!!

  • Not bad at all.. Google does not have some of those features as some insist in mentioning.

    Peace

  • Google maps, streetview.

    Powned

  • Photosynth. Powned. Anymore stupid comments? Try articulating next time, and when you do, don't be such a sheep about what you say.

  • Why are ingrates diluting the value of something as innovative as TED?

    Let me guess... then they'll complain the 'net is a wasteland and they don't understand why the world is going to hell.

  • GIEF M00T NAO!

  • One word comes to mind: Google

  • Another comes to mind: blind.

    Go check out photosynth, see that it's integrated, and weep at Earth 2.0+.

  • Since you've already got 5 thumbs down, I'll do you a favor and share the secret - you, sir, are the sheep. Very little of what this is copies Google Earth. Does Google Earth update the model of a location every time a new photo of the place in question is uploaded to Flickr? No. Does it show the sky? No. It integrated two new programs - Photosynth and Worldwide Telescope. Photosynth integration alone makes this revolutionary. And -inside- Pike Place? Hell no on Google Earth.

  • Not only is this guy stealing Google's ideas, he's hiring some trolls to thumb down people's comments

  • Good job on continuing to be a sheep. Bravo!

    1) Augmentations to preexisting technologies are essential in the evolutions of those technologies. When plasma and LCD displays were introduced, the world didn't remark "WTF, they ripped off the TV!". When they made Redhat, no one scoffed. Microsoft is taking an existing idea and modifying it. And you clearly don't even see how! Really, google Photosynth. It's awesome.

    2) Trolls don't make rational arguments, they make irrational statements.

  • @PSK11489 Interesting point.

    Looked up Photosynth...they've really taken photo-stitching to a whole other freaky level. I'm curious if they'll ever get it to the point like in "Enemy of the State" lol

  • @TodayInMyWorld

    I know. The Notre Dame one he used in the demo is amazing, especially in that it used a photo of a poster of a drawing of Notre Dame in constructing the photosynth. And with this video, he's showing how you can make images of a place that auto-update as you film them. A newscast may update the map! And consider when a building is destroyed - the photos people take will auto-update the map to show that it's no longer there.

  • Google Earth shows the sky you idiort

  • Responding to a single item of the many I brought up proves nothing for the overall point. And if you're going to throw names around, at least spell check them. Dumbass.

  • spellchecks are for idorts

  • take that google maps!

  • 5 stars. Eat it, 4chan!

  • Microsoft copied Google Earth. That drew gasps? This crowd is pretty out of touch.

  • the TED crowd is *always* out of touch.

    everytime someone puts a ten year old "funny" picture in his presentation they laugh their asses off.

  • i dont think you understand the significance of what microsoft is doing here, look up seadragon and photosynth

  • Microsoft integrated Photosynth into Google Earth. They deserve more than gasps.

  • The lack of moot in here is disgusting

  • Nice map. Seriously though where is Moot?

  • meh needs moar moot also epic beard man

  • I told you not to mess with MOOT - EBM

  • MOOT MOOT MOOOOOOOT

  • Where's moots video!?

  • WE NEED MORE MOOT!!

    WE WANT MORE MOOT!!

  • We need more Moot. also, this is just stealing google streetview. OMGlook microsoft steals another competitor's idea and doesnt do it as well. What a surprise.

  • @outrider52 I think google stole it from microsoft :o Google are eval.

  • @Storhonta Google stole the idea of Google earth from the actual earth! Those bastards!

  • Show moot please, i find it inspirational!

  • Needs Moar Moot! Hes influential

  • moooot

  • THIS ISN'T FUNNY OR CLEVER YOU PRETENTIOUS REATADS,

    NOW GIVE US MOOT OF GTFO.

    maflFMALDSF

  • This vid is seriously lacking in mootness!

    We want the ever influential mootles!

    MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT! MOOT!

  • Where is moot?

  • M00T OF THE V& GETS IT

  • Please show the moot video, he is the most influential person in the world.

  • I would like to see more Moot,... he's influential.

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  • fucking trolled >:@

  • i would like to see more moot...... he is the most influential person in the world.......

  • No srsly. Wheres MOOT?

  • this has nothing to do with moot. people are getting trolled

  • Why doesnt this video have any Christopher 'MOOT' Poole, hes the most influencial person on the internet.

  • GIVE ME MOOT

  • where is moot?

  • I'm sorry but this is unsatisfactory without moot.

  • We want MOOT!

  • Where is moot, the most influential person on the internet?

  • This video is trivial in content, clearly microsoft has paid to have it released before the Christopher Poole conference.

  • Where the fuck is MOOT?

  • What the fuck is this shit

  • wtf the most influential person in the world hasn't had his video uploaded yet?

  • mooty, mooty, come to papa

  • MOOT, Where are you?!