Web-based Program Offers 3-D View Of The Earth

A web-based program lets users view the earth in 3-D.

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April 22, 2002, 7:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"EarthViewer 3D, from Keyhole, lets users navigate through aerial photographs wrapped around a 3-D representation of the globe. As a user dives toward Earth, the program redraws to the screen at a video-gamelike 60 frames per second. Up to now, the primary users of EarthViewer 3D have been real estate agents and city planners who paid yearly subscriptions of $1,200. But starting next month, a deal between Keyhole and Nvidia, the maker of specialty computer chips, will bring the software to consumers."

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