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Saving America $329,000
Remember a few weeks ago, when Air Force one flew over downtown Manhattan escorted by a F-16 and scared the bejesus out of every New Yorker lighting nostalgic sparks of 9/11? Well, our partners at 3DVia decided to recreate the scene using Virtual Earth Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:50 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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AGI Visualizes Geo-Physics on Virtual Earth
I may have to quit my job. I want to go out on top like John Elway. Once I’ve seen everything, I don’t know what else will light a fire under me to get up in the morning. Analytical Graphics, Inc. ( AGI ) has just changed my world by demonstrating how Read More...
Posted: Friday, February 27, 2009 10:06 AM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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Importing Google SketchUp Models into Microsoft Virtual Earth
With the release of trueSpace 7.6 for Virtual Earth , I’ve been pinged with questions about importing 3D objects in Microsoft Virtual Earth , developing 3D objects, supporting other platforms objects, etc., etc. Well, today, my good buddy Tom Grimes from Read More...
Posted: Friday, February 06, 2009 1:49 PM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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Virtual Earth 3D Install Issue with Windows 7
If you’ve tried installing Virtual Earth 3D on Windows 7 you may have see a little problem with the installer crashing during setup stating, “Virtual Earth 3D Install has stopped working.” CP to the rescue! As it turns out there’s an issue with the Software Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:59 AM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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The Making of the Virtual Earth 3D Santa Tracker
As Santa heads north for his annual slumber and we’re all left with buyer’s remorse and daunting credit card bills we can now reflect on something positive: how Christmas was changed this year for the better with a 3D version of tracking Santa using Microsoft Read More...
Posted: Monday, December 29, 2008 10:04 PM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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Tracking Santa in Virtual Earth 3D
As a follow up to The North Pole – A Virtual Earth Christmas Experience , the boys and I created a Santa Tracker to track Old St. Nick on his trek around the world hosted by MSNBC ( direct link to application here in the case you can find it on MSNBC Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:15 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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New Version of 3DVia = Easy 3D Model Publishing in Virtual Earth
Helmets strapped on? For some time Microsoft has had a relationship with Dassault for publishing consumer 3D models into Virtual Earth using 3DVia . When you install the Virtual Earth 3D Managed Control you have the option of downloading 3DVia free of Read More...
Posted: Friday, December 19, 2008 12:47 PM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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The North Pole – A Virtual Earth Christmas Experience
Microsoft Virtual Earth and MSNBC are changing the game this year when it comes to tracking Santa. You’ve all seen the NORAD Santa Tracker and while that’s been fun over the years, well, it has gotten a bit stale. So, a few of us here in the Virtual Earth Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:36 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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WorldWide Telescope - New Release!
The Microsoft Research Team has released an updated version of WorldWide Telescope for free download. The new release is jammed packed with features including my favorite, 3D Solar System and Universe View (plug in your X-Box controller prior to running Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 2:53 PM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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Ultra-Wide Screen Virtual Earth 3D
OMG. Double click to go full screen Now, THIS is how Microsoft Virtual Earth should be viewed! The Advanced Cognitive Engineering Lab at Carlton University in Ottawa, Canada, has officially forced me to strap on my helmet a little tighter, because they Read More...
Posted: Friday, October 24, 2008 8:59 AM by Chris Pendleton | 3 Comments
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WorldWide Telescope Stars in Virtual Earth
I haven't talked about WorldWide Telescope since it launched; but, since Microsoft Virtual Earth is a part of that Microsoft Research project I thought it would interest some of you that we decided to include some of the WorldWide Telescope into Virtual Read More...
Posted: Monday, October 06, 2008 4:26 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Virtual Earth Gallery in trueSpace; Plus a Contest
We're looking for a few good 3D designers to submit their best 3D work in Microsoft Virtual Earth (or Live Search Maps ). A new addition to the Caligari (trueSpace) 3D Authoring and Collaboration site is a Virtual Earth Gallery specifically dedicated Read More...
Posted: Monday, September 29, 2008 4:14 PM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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New Version of Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D and 3DVia
We've released a new version of Virtual Earth 3D today. When you get to Live Search Maps and click 3D you'll be prompted to update your 3D control. As a part of this, you can also download the latest and greatest bits of 3DVia from Dassault Systèmes Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 8:07 PM by Chris Pendleton | 2 Comments
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The Significance of trueSpace 7.6 and 700,000 Polygons
This needs little explanation, but I wanted to share this with the Virtual Earth crowd to show the raw power of the trueSpace 7.6 rendering engine. The following video shows a rendering of 1500 frames which took only 15 minutes to complete all in real Read More...
Posted: Saturday, August 09, 2008 9:35 AM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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trueSpace & Virtual Earth Newbie Troubleshooting
It's been a day since I announced trueSpace for Virtual Earth Development and I figured I'd post a few hiccups I had to overcome while developing my ever-so-cool Random Cubes . This won't be the end all support FAQs with trueSpace (you should go to their Read More...
Posted: Thursday, July 24, 2008 6:02 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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