Microsoft® Live Search Maps will today begin offering three-dimensional, photo-realistic views of New York City buildings and landscapes, with perspectives that few people — apart from Superman — have ever seen. The free online service will provide a unique look at many of New York’s iconic locations, along with local listings, ratings and reviews and [...]
The idea of virtual worlds as essentially widgets is one that seems to be gaining currency, and it’s the opposite from the vision of an all-encompassing immersive metaverse. Rather than the web getting sucked into textures on a 3d wall, in this model it’s about the spaces being sucked into the Web we use today. [...]
Lots of conversations over the last 24 hours about telepresence. They were triggered by John Battelle’s review of HP’s Halo offering and Charlene Li’s review of Cisco’s TelePresence offering. Both are recommended reading and brought back memories of my first video conference session in the early nineties.
As an early beta tester I accompanied some colleagues [...]