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Google Reportedly Purchases Quiksee for $10M

by Matt Ball on September 13, 2010

UPDATE: The purchase of Quiksee is is now officially confirmed. The news that Google is purchasing Israel-based Quiksee for $10M has been reported by Haaretz, but is still unconfirmed by Google. Quiksee has developed software technology to turn captured video into seamless 3D scenes. The video demo on the Quiksee website shows a user capturing [...]

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Part of the fascination with history is that lessons can be learned that have relevance to problems today and in the future. The means to convey our recollections has progressed from the story, to the photograph, to the movie, and is marching inevitably toward an immersive model. Geospatial technologies are contributing to our ability to [...]

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The algorithms behind the functionality of Microsoft’s Photosynth offering began as Noah Snavely’s Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Washington. Snavely is now a computer scientist at Cornell University, and he’s working to push the scale of montaging 2D photos to create 3D realities beyond current limitations of dozens or hundreds of photos toward tens [...]

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GeoWeb Morning Keynote Final Day

by Matt Ball on July 25, 2008

Bill Gail a director at Microsoft Virtual Earth gave the morning keynote today at GeoWeb. The focus of the talk was on the transition of the GeoWeb, showing the current status and features of Virtual Earth and presenting three evolving scenarios for the evolution of the GeoWeb. Gail detailed the content and functionality of Virtual [...]

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