Whereas Google Earth continues to grow rich by new contents, Microsoft recently opened its service Virtual Earth with the 3D. Nevertheless, the selected form is different from that of the couple Google Maps/Google Earth since Microsoft directly integrates visualization 3D into the service Web, rather than to propose an independent application to download.
The plugin Virtual Earth 3D, currently in version beta, requires the use of Internet Explorer 6 or 7. Tested under Firefox, the site invites the user to download a recent version of the navigator of Microsoft to profit from the new functionality. Once installed, it launches Live Search in Internet Explorer and makes it possible to rock between the traditional sight 2D and a new sight 3D proposing an ergonomics close to Google Earth: zoom, rotation and slope are carried out naturally with the mouse and a bar of tool gives access to various angles of vision or the adjustment of the zoom. If the charts are not always as precise as those proposed by Google Earth, in particular with regard to Europe, Virtual Earth 3D manages the buildings in a way more realistic than the software of Google since it integrates already textures of the buildings. Those Ci are optional if your configuration does not allow it to you.
The effect is less impressive on Paris but some monuments like Crowned the Heart or the Triumphal arch are present. Version 4 of Google Earth deals with the posting of textures but the buildings integrated into the application do not profit from it yet and no European city is decorated buildings or monuments.
One will note in the passing that the American cities whose Microsoft proposes the visit are also strewn with billboards. A new vector for the advertisers? Google Earth remains as for him available here for Windows and Linux and by there for Mac OS X. You can also consult our Google Earth - Guide of the Traveller.Quite real publicities in the virtual cities
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