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The Virtual Planet Explorer

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the don't-get-lost-in-there dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "A European Union program has helped several European partners to develop the Virtual Planet (or V-Planet) software, which will enable its users to browse and interact in three dimensions with any part of our planet, according to IST Results. "Using Vplanet Explorer, anyone can set off on a journey to discover new regions in 3D, rather than staring at a flat map and trying to picture its scenery," says Eric Martin, coordinator of the IST project. The software can also be used for technical simulations and has already been used by both Airbus and Boeing. It should be available this summer for about 10,000 euros (about $12K). Besides other details and references, this overview contains several pictures of simulations using V-Planet."

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  1. I visited the site by epsalon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    looking for the download link, and then I've seen it's actually proprietary software. Why is /. posting advertisments? How is this better than the new imagery avialable from Google?

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    1. Re:I visited the site by nmpeglit · · Score: 3, Insightful

      What do you mean? Why do you post Intel news then? I am fed up with the bunch of Google articles that pop up at slashdot ten times a day about the same subject. That's an advertisement. And what really bothered you is that this is proprietery software? Of course it is, as it is the 95% of decent software out there. This doesn't mean that the software is crap. You open source nazis...

      Gotta go and roll a smoke, I really got pissed off with this comment.

  2. Re:Worldy Wisdom by TheKidWho · · Score: 2, Insightful

    LOL

    some of you people really crack me up

  3. Re:Worldy Wisdom by DAldredge · · Score: 2, Insightful

    IF they did that they would not be able to charge 12,000 USD per copy.

  4. Re:browse and interact by enginuitor · · Score: 2, Insightful
    "Does this mean I can like wlak [sic] around in this 3-D world and kick over buildings and stuff?"
    I think they mean "interact" in the same way that you "interact" with a painting in a museum... that is, you don't.
    You're looking for something more along the lines of this. Greater entertainment value, and significantly cheaper.