Blaise Agüera y Arcas Demos Augmented Reality Maps (2010 February 11)

In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Agüera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft.

Try out Bing Maps for yourself on any Intel Mac or Windows Machine that has Silverlight 3 or 4 installed.
http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/

View the preview of Streetside Photos here:
http://bit.ly/streetsidephotos

Try out Photosynth for yourself at:
http://photosynth.net

Try out Worldwide Telescope for yourself at either:
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/webclient/
or http://bit.ly/bingwwtmapapp

View and download the original copy of this video here:
http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html

View other fascinating TED Talks here on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector

View Blaise's 2007 TED Talk about Seadragon and Photosynth here:
http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosynth.html

Convert any high resolution image on the web to a fast-loading, embeddable, zoomable Seadragon image here:
http://zoom.it

See Stephen Lawler's TED Talk on Virtual Earth here:
http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_lawler_tours_microsoft_virtual_earth.html

See Curtis Wong's TED Talk on Worldwide Telescope here:
http://www.ted.com/talks/roy_gould_and_curtis_wong_preview_the_worldwide_tele...

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[chentiangemalc]

that is great

[urbanimpressionism]

Incredible tech integration by Blaise & Co! Learning Silverlight now and def going to try this w/ Bing maps and see if I can include my cityscape paintings images at their locales.

[tomyloveu]

thats cool and do one more thing add gta 4 to it so we can play and drive cars on road hehe

[heathy2k6]

Pretty cool that, it shits on Google Maps

[Luckzzz]

Big Brother =)