Windows 8 Consumer Preview Special Bing Homepage

We have been hearing about the next version of Windows 8 release after Developer Preview (DP) to be called as Consumer Preview (CP) and this might be released soon in this month only. So the beta will be called as Consumer Preview and its almost confirmed with today’s teaser of a special Bing Home page video!

A special Bing Homepage under preparation is providing some pointers on this (HT to The Verge & LiveSide)

It mentions ‘Consumer Preview’ at 2 places. One in one of the Hotspots and other at bottom ‘See What’s new – Windows 8 Consumer Preview’ . But as of now none of the links work.

Just visit http://www.bing.com/?win8start=1 to have a look at the Windows 8 Consumer Preview Special Bing Home Page. And see how the Betta fish comes alive & swims across the screen. If you remember, similar betta fish used to be on the Windows 7 beta ver also.

Bing maps now as mapping option in HP Printers

If you don’t have NAV installed on your car, then one has to goto bingmaps, type in the address and then print the Directions map. Now this process has been simplified as Bing Maps will now be available as a mapping option on select HP Photosmart e-All-in-One printer. Beginning this fall, Bing Maps will be available on new HP ePrint enabled home printers worldwide, giving you access to Bing Maps’ best in class high resolution imagery for quick and easy one touch map printing… right from a printer! Read more here www.hp.com/go/InnovationSummit

 

 

Source:    Bing Maps is coming to an HP printer near you!

Microsoft Research Street Slide View

Street Slide is a novel browsing interface for street-level imagery that combines the best aspects of the immersive nature of "bubbles" with the overview provided by multi-perspective strip panoramas, figures to attract significant interest, in large part because of the ingenious way in which Microsoft Researchers tackle problems with current street-side imagery on the web.

 

Street Slide View

Easy Rider–New Bing TV Commercial

Trying to travel the open road without directions is no easy ride. Take Bing mobile along with you to get directions, movie times, restaurant reviews, and more. Peace, love, and Bing mobile. Check this Bing commercial-

 

Easy Rider–Bing TV commercial

How to embed Bing Twitter Maps in your site, blog

Bing maps has released an update to the Twitter Maps application in the Bing Maps Application Gallery. Now you can embed Twitter maps functionality in your site. This means you can have a Bing Map on your web site, blog, favorite social networking site with the Tweets you care about.

And its very easy to do. Just go to Bing Maps  Click on Map Apps to open the  Gallery and select the ‘Bing Twitter maps’

 

Bing Maps’ Augmented-reality demo at TED 2010 – A must watch

In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft.

(Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 8:14)

 

In the end of the video a very nice demo of WorldWide Telescope (WWT) integration

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/766

http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html  Check out the comments, what people are saying about.

 

Blaise Auguera y Arcas from Bing team demos cool Augmented Reality for Bing maps. The Bing team working on an app which is integrating with flickr geo registered imagery for augmented reality.

Augment reality for bing maps is basically taking one view and laying on metadata of other views on top of that.

In the video the Base view that they start with is the street level view from Bing maps. They zoom down to the downtown Seattle and goes to Pike's Place market and shows how the market looks like when Microsoft Bing went there and took pictures and catalogued the first time for the Bing maps. Next he gets flickr geo registered imagery and uses photosynth to connect it to bing maps imagery as these user sourced images overlay on top of existing bing maps images.
Shows how they are integrated in deep way in to the map itself. Photosynth figures out its pictures and corresponds to particular locations in bing maps and overlays on top of it. So map and the real pictures overlaying for better experience.

Next he goes one step further- 
He shows inside of market which has been shot with backpack cameras for bing maps. And then he dials to his camera crew Live in the market, they turn on the camera and starts panning and zooming of the market .Bing maps takes the video and it transposes in real time on top of bing maps. You have to watch it to believe it. Overlaying in real time , these video to the bing maps images.That's amazing !!

 

Check the video Now !!