The vehicles will be outfitted with the Microsoft Vexcel UltraCam. Last week, Bing unveiled Streetside imaging but you may have noticed it's not quite extensive. Hold your horses. These things take time.
Microsoft acquired Vexcel for, among other things, the company's capacity to do automated 3-D rendering. Vexcel CEO John Curlander said that the company is rendering eight cities a month, moving quickly to 16.
Last year Microsoft bought Vexcel a company that developed a super high resolution camera and 3-D rendering technology, among other technology. Tomorrow Microsoft will bring dramatic 3-D mapping to the browser window.
To that end, the company has an ambitious product roadmap and has been making significant investments in the area, most recently buying Vexcel Corp.a Colorado-based company that provides radar, satellite, mapping and "photogrammetric solutions.
Reportedly the resolution goes down to 20 inches, which I believe is the best currently available in France and perhaps the whole of Europe (though Microsoft's Vexcel camera goes to 6 inches). The French answer to Google Earth, the indirectly...
As evidence, Lawler pointed to the recent Vexcel acquisition, which included an advanced digital camera for capturing aerial imagery down to 6 inches of resolution. Steven Lawler of Microsoft didn't directly mention Google by name, but many of his...
Last week, as I posted on my blog, the company announced the well-known acquisition of Vexcel corporation. Vexcel is a "remote sensing" and mapping company that enables, among other things, extremely high resolution aerial photography and 3-D...
Vexcel is a "remote sensing" and mapping company that enables, among other things, extremely high resolution aerial photography and 3-D mapping. Last week, as I posted on my blog, the company announced the well-known acquisition of Vexcel...
Last week, as I posted on my blog, the company announced the well-known acquisition of Vexcel corporation. Vexcel is a "remote sensing" and mapping company that enables, among other things, extremely high resolution aerial photography and 3-D mapping.
