The latest version of Second Life's official client includes the ability to stream static web pages into the world, and to no one's surprise, the mad scientists at UK agency Daden Limited have cooked up yet another potentially transformative application for that technology: an interface for accessing, navigating in, and interacting with Google Maps. This video shows it in action, locating Daden's Birmingham office in Google Maps, bringing up the satellite overlay, and most impressive to me, importing an RSS newsfeed from the BBC onto the map, dynamically displaying the real world location of news stories around the world. Previous mixed reality mash-ups from Daden include this Twitter fountain and this 3D air traffic feed.
This looks ideal for an upgrade to Extropia/Low Earth Orbit!
(Come visit - Extropia/LEO on the teleporters, or fly straight up to 600m in Extropia Core)
Time to corral Corro for another chat...
Posted by: Sophrosyne Stenvaag | Monday, March 24, 2008 at 10:35 PM
Fantastic. I will post at Association of Virtual Worlds.
Posted by: Dave Elchoness | Monday, March 31, 2008 at 08:53 AM
Great - but what is the actual USE of this stuff.
It all looks like last year's gimicks and holds no actual value...or is that just me.
Posted by: Charlotte | Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 03:44 PM