BBC show uses Microsoft tech for 3D imagery
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Blog: Microsoft's Photosynth technology for stitching 2D images into a 3D realm will illustrate the How We Built Britain Web site.
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A camera-equipped robot, a three-wheeled car and avatars were the subjects of some of this week's video highlights.
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The creative software giant illustrates its views on Microsoft, Apple, and Web video.
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In an attempt to level the playing field with Google Earth, Microsoft has scooped up Caligari, makers of 3-D rendering software.
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3D Connexion introduces a new peripheral that helps users navigate virtual 3D spaces.
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Wired News is blinded by the flash of this year's biggest imaging and photography show. Don't miss David Becker's exhaustive coverage from the floor in Las Vegas. In Gadget Lab.
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Microsoft's internal science fair shows off some projects that may turn into real products.
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BT's on-demand service BT Vision will be available via the Xbox from mid-2008.
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Plus: Mashups for the masses and HD Video in a Digital Camera.
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A new website provides an innovative tool that expands and contracts images while minimizing  distortion.
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Ahem... It's a tricky one: you've developed some software for "showing and managing digital pictures and 3D Objects with a simple, intuitive, and complete interface", but now it's time to give it a snappy, eye-catching name guaranteed to attract all the right sort of attention.â¦
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The new 3D concert film uses 3Ality's technology to showcase Bono and the boys.
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Microsoft plans to show off its new internet TV initiative, which will let consumers use an Xbox 360 like a TiVo box, next month. In Game|Life.
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TechWeb - Anacubis Desktop 3.0 shows the BI potential of information visualization software.
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Film and TV studios are looking for computer graphics experts for special effects works. With their skills and background, software engineers could find themselves on the virtual set of the next blockbuster.
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New technologies wirelessly transmit high-definition video.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft will work with 3D design and visualization software developer Dassault SystÃ¨mes, to add a new dimension to its Virtual Earth mapping and satellite imagery service, the companies announced Tuesday. Through this partnership, Microsoft will be able to invite users of Virtual Earth to contribute their own 3D models of buildings featured on the maps, much as Google already does with the "3D Warehouse" layer in its Google Earth software and the free modeling tool Google SketchUp, now at version 6. To encourage development of models for inclusion in Virtual Earth, Dassault SystÃ¨mes has built an online community, 3dvia.com, around consumer uses of its and other companies' 3D modeling tools. The community began life as Teapotters.com, a creative project set up by a group of Dassault employees, but opened its doors as 3Dvia.com As a demonstration of what's possible, Dassault SystÃ¨mes is offering a free 3D model of a much sought-after electronic gadget -- not partner Microsoft's Zune music player, but the iPhone to be launched by Apple on Friday. The iPhone model can be viewed using the 3D Life Player browser plug-in from VirtoolsÂ of Paris and, if you catch the angle just right, offers an unexpected view of the inside of the gadget. Dassault SystÃ¨mes also announced partnerships with two French companies, RealvizÂ of Sophia Antipolis and Allegorithmic of Clermont Ferrand, to make their technology available to members of the 3dvia.com community. Allegorithmic will allow community members to use its procedural textures to decorate their models. Procedural textures are patterns of shading created according to a series of rules or algorithms to resemble real-world surfaces such as rock, foliage or sheet metal. They are often used to render more realistic scenery in video games without the need for storing voluminous image files. Realviz makes software used by film makers and game developers to create photorealistic 3D images. One of its applications, VTour, can be used to construct three-dimensional models of scenes from a single photograph. Dassault SystÃ¨mes will integrate VTour with 3dvia, allowing users to combine their 3D models with 3D backdrops created from photographs. Dassault SystÃ¨mes also plans a business side to the 3dvia community, called SupplierSource, to help designers find manufacturers for their products. The SupplierSource site, which the company said will appear at http://www.suppliersource.3dvia.com/, is not yet live.