Going further in geo visualization
Friday, November 9th, 2007I read an article about Everyscape. Everyscape tries to give its users an immersive experience by stitching together a set of panoramic photographs, in contrast with the satellite imagery that is being used by other tools such as Google Earth. I played a bit with the NY demo and was pretty impressed.
Apparently their web-based software is based on the initial software by the founder’s previous company, Mok3. There is a great video that shows a tour through a long hallway at MIT which was constructed of only 20 panoramic photographs. I found another (less impressive) Youtube video of Mok3′s software:
It reminded me a bit of Microsoft’s Photosynth, which was presented at TED this year: