Name: Tour Microsoft's Virtual Earth
Uploaded: 2007-06-20T09:36:00Z
Duration: 5 min 56 s
Description: Microsoft's Stephen Lawler gives a whirlwind tour of Virtual Earth, moving up, down and through its hyper-real cityscapes with dazzlingly fluidity, a remarkable feat that requires staggering amounts of data to bring into focus.

Stephen Lawler: Tour Microsoft's Virtual Earth

Tour Microsoft's Virtual Earth

Microsoft's Stephen Lawler gives a whirlwind tour of Virtual Earth, moving up, down and through its hyper-real cityscapes with dazzlingly fluidity, a remarkable feat that requires staggering amounts of data to bring into focus.

General manager of Microsoft's Virtual Earth

Digital globes are transforming the web from a static experience into an immersive, interactive environment. Using data streams collected by satellites, airplanes, and ground vehicles, engineers recreate cities in hyper-real detail, generating four gigabits per second from the air. After Hurricane Katrina, these tools gave many people their first look at their damaged homes. By merging software, community knowledge, and vast imagery, the digital world becomes a powerful, living map of the real one.