TED 2011: Swedish Company Creates Flyovers in 3D
Source: Wired
What’s better than two-dimensional satellite images of Google Maps? How about photorealistic 3-D modeling of a flyover?
C3 Technologies, a Swedish spinoff of the aerospace and defense company Saab AB, has taken technology used by the Swedish military to guide missiles in real time and turned it into a commercial application for licensing. Using images captured by plane, the software converts the video into 3D models of a city, which can be overlaid with digital billboards, social networking comments and traditional mapping legends to call out landmarks and other sites.