From: Avatar Polymorph (avatarpolymorph@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 22:09:13 MDT
www.earthviewer.com
New! - EarthViewer 3D for personal/home now available!
Delivering Your Digital Earth
Keyhole fuses high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery, elevation data,
GPS coordinates, and overlay information about cities and businesses to
deliver a streaming, 3D map of the entire globe.
The result is a whole new way of looking at your world - reach out and
"grab" the earth with your mouse, pan quickly to your area of interest (or
select it from a placemark) and then zoom smoothly down to an individual
building. Watch as the city unfolds itself before your eyes, revealing new
perspectives and fresh insights.
Click here for current hi-res coverage list.
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Strategic Partnership Delivers the Ultimate 'Sky Cam' With EarthViewer 3D
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Inviting consumers
to view the digital world from their desktops, NVIDIA(R) Corporation
(Nasdaq: NVDA) today announced that it has formed a strategic partnership,
including an investment commitment, with Keyhole Corporation, a rich mapping
software and service provider. As a result of this agreement, NVIDIA will
become the exclusive distribution partner for the consumer version of the
EarthViewer 3D program, starting with an online promotion beginning next
week at www.nvidia.com. The two companies are also working together to
integrate new capabilities in the EarthViewer 3D product, including
optimized support for NVIDIA's next-generation Graphics Processing Units
(GPUs), for both the consumer and professional markets.
Featured in today's New York Times "Circuits" section, EarthViewer 3D
transforms the way people receive and use geospatial information by
delivering to PCs with an Internet broadband connection a three dimensional
model of planet Earth. EarthViewer 3D takes full advantage of NVIDIA's
graphics processing power to deliver a seamless stream of high-resolution
satellite images, aerial photographs, maps, point of interest databases and
other location-critical data. EarthViewer 3D also allows users to pan, zoom
and tilt the view of any location, from Mount Everest to the Grand Canyon,
for the ultimate "birds eye" view of the world.
"NVIDIA and Keyhole have partnered to deliver an excellent way for NVIDIA
customers to explore the rich and expansive world of 3D," stated Dan Vivoli,
vice president of marketing at NVIDIA. "By presenting a unique and
educational way to explore the world, EarthViewer 3D combines all of the
pieces needed to deliver an easily accessible, compelling 3D experience, and
represents the future of 3D applications for mainstream audiences."
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