Five years ago video game veteran Ian Hetherington decided he wanted to create a new kind of software platform that would merge games with the real world. He spent about three years building a ...
Unlike Apple's iOS 6 Maps, which target relatively low powered mobile devices, the new 3D features in Google Maps that were introduced last week require a modern PC ...
Google Street View eat your heart out: An MIT-built quadrocopter uses Microsoft Kinect, and some smart odometry algorithms, to fly around a room and spit out a 3D map of the environment. The drone ...
There are so many navigation apps available now that one can wish for a navigation app just to find one in the app store. Most are variations on a theme; get from point A to point B efficiently, with ...
‘It’s a tool to democratize access to coral reefs.’ ‘It’s a tool to democratize access to coral reefs.’ There’s plenty of research about coral reefs bleaching and dying because of warming ocean waters ...
ST. LOUIS — A technology gap in the autonomous vehicle industry today is access to highly accurate 3D maps of the Earth so vehicles can identify objects and safely navigate in unfamiliar terrain.
With the release of iOS 15, Apple delivered what they called Apple Maps' "biggest update ever." This update makes four cities into fully 3D experiences, with Apple-generated graphics and design to ...
My title is Senior Features Writer, which is a license to write about absolutely anything if I can connect it to technology (I can). I’ve been at PCMag since 2011 and have covered the surveillance ...
近几年,随着夜游文旅的火热,很多古建筑也借助光影秀走红网络。河南浚县的一座600多岁的古城楼就是典型的例子,通过3D Mapping光影秀“翻红”。 河南浚县,这个鹤壁下辖的国家历史文化名城,拥有保存完好的明清城墙、古街巷和丰富的运河文化、民俗资源,坐拥“华北第一古庙会”,泥咕咕、大平调、民间社火等国家级非遗在这里生生不息。今年,这座古城的城楼在夜晚被光影点亮,现代光影技术与古建筑交相辉映,生动演 ...