Archive for December, 2008

Fly around NYC in 3d

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Via the Google Earth Blog -
Google has added an astonishing quantity of 3d building – with photographic textures – into Google Earth.
Simply fly to NYC in Google Earth, and turn on the 3d buildings Layer.
Pretty amazing :-)

Guruguru360 – the blog of Hiroharu Shizuya

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

One of 360cities’ most prolific members, Hiroharu Shizuya, just pointed me towards his blog. It looks as good as all of his other work. If you want to view a translated (english) version, use this link.

click the image to enter Hiroharu Shizuya’s blog.
Hiroharu comes from Tokyo and he has created a fantastic amount of panoramas [...]

IE lets you browse the internet, and vice versa

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

From the BBC: “Users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed.”
Read more about it on BBC News.
In related news, Slashdot reports: “Microsoft quietly released the first update to its IE8 beta 2 to its closest partners last week. This new [...]

Fantastic photo archive of the Leaning Tower of Pisa

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Ok, who will be the first to build a 3d model / photosynth / object movie / inverted panorama from these thousands of images? :-)

click the image above to visit the site.

360 Cities’ panorama photography weblog. Virtual Reality to show you the world.