I was extremely impressed by what the Microsoft Live Labs/Seadragon/Photosynth team had cooked up in cooperation with the Bing Maps team that Blaise Aguera y Arcas demoed at TED2010 (live video feed over 4G overlayed onto indoor Bing Maps “street view” in realtime + integration of worldwide telescope/”astronomically complete representation of the sky”). 

It’s great to see that they haven’t slowed down. The video above, via /., is a demo of Street Slide with some details on how it works and why it’s a massive improvement over Google’s Street View. I also found it interesting that this Microsoft demo mentions porting Street Slide to only one mobile device, the iPhone. The manager of the Windows Phone 7 division can’t be pleased (or surprised).

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