O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 is the third annual conference bringing together developments in the location industry. The Where 2.0 Conference News has podcasts. At O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference, 18 presentations where held over 2 hours, 6 launches and 12 Ignite talks, covering various aspect of the geo world.
Perhaps the biggest news was Google’s virtual walking [...]
iRobot and Boeing are teaming to develop a next-generation Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle (SUGV).
Called SUGV Early and weighing less than 30 pounds, iRobot’s non-vacuum skills include remote reconnaissance and real-time intelligence. Images can be relayed in real time to field commanders from small unmanned aerial vehicles.
It’s based on PackBot, a series of robots [...]
Seven new and updated 3D cities were published yesterday - Calgary, Redmond, Buffalo, Beaverton, Portland, Swindon and Brighton on Microsoft’s Virtual Earth.
Lots of aerial and Birds Eye imagery was published as well. Here’s Portland, Intel in Beaverton/Hillsdale, Calgary and Brighton.
Converting flat images into 3-D virtual-reality models that can be manipulated on-screen is the essense of [...]
TechCrunch explains the video conferencing software package from Marratech. Google acquired the Swedish startup for an undisclosed price this week.
Marratech is in the e-meeting space, explains Michael Arrington. It competes with WebEx, which Cisco just bought for $3.2 billion. Users are able to communicate via text chat, VOIP and video, and share applications in a [...]
Google Earth 4, the latest edition launched during CES, is now a mixture of textured 3D renderings of famous architectural sites and terrain when the proper layers are turned on. But the most obvious change to the free, stand-alone program, is a new, simpler user interface.
The latest version of Google SketchUp will allow users to [...]
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A memorandum of understanding signed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the Web3D Consortium allows them to collaborate on interoperable, Web-based geospatial services and could lead to innovations in the conversion of 2-D data [...]
Honda may build tiny cameras into its cars’ wing mirrors, reports New Scientist.
These “car cams” would look at the road both ahead and behind and use cellphone connections to send real time video back to a central server. Each car would also transmit its GPS location and speed, allowing the central server to build [...]
Mobile phones will undergo a dramatic transformation over the next few years, incorporating more powerful processors and more storage, as well as new technologies, a Samsung executive said Monday.
The addition, sensors will monitor a user’s health and offer a wider range of entertainment and online services, said Kang-Hun Lee, vice president of Samsung’s [...]
The Washington Post, Search Engine Watch and C/Net have gushing reviews of Microsoft’s new Virtual Earth (C/Net video), a competitor to Google Earth.
Microsoft’s 3D mapping product uses their Live Local service to integrate live 3D mapping inside Internet Explorer. A separate application is not required and results include photographs mapped to 3D buildings. [...]
Widgets Live (schedule) is the first GigaOM conference, in San Francisco. Michael Arrington says Widgets are popping up all over.
Widget platforms today work on websites (see Google Gadgets and WidgetBox) or the desktop (see Yahoo Widgets). Yourminis is the latest entry to the web-based widget desktop space currently lead by Netvibes, Pageflakes and Protopage.
SpringWidgets (above) [...]
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