Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps

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http://www.ted.com In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft.

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

  • 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!!

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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

  • @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.

  • @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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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