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(Unverified)Apr 10th 2008 3:34PM

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It appears that Microsoft has put the Photosynth technology into Virtual Earth now. Goto maps.live.com, choose 3d on the map and zoom in to a city (once the necessary plugins are loaded). You can now click on Bird's Eye View, and this type of overlay occurs. (As you move the mouse around the map, different polygon areas are hilighted, indicating that there is a bird's eye photo for that area, just like in the aerial examples in the above video.) At the moment it's pretty slow but definitely very cool.

Note: I am not a MS fanboi, nor do I have any affiliation to them. I just thought it's pretty neat technology.

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