Blaise Agüera y Arcas: Augmented-reality maps

The video discusses the innovative features of Bing Maps, highlighting its fluid zooming and panning capabilities, 3D mapping, and integration with user-generated content like photosynths and Flickr images. It showcases applications such as earthquake maps and hyper-local blogs. The video also explores augmented reality, indoor mapping, and telepresence, demonstrating live broadcasting from Pike Place Market. Finally, it introduces the integration of WorldWide Telescope, allowing users to explore the sky within Bing Maps.

What is one of the key features of Bing Maps that differentiates it from traditional mapping services?

• No 3D view

• Static imagery

• Fluid zooming and panning

• Limited directions

What unique perspective does Bing Maps offer when zooming in beyond a certain level?

• Sim City-like virtual view

• Satellite view

• Aerial view

• Street view

How does Bing Maps utilize user-generated content in its mapping service?

• By integrating photosynths

• By replacing it with professional images

• By ignoring it

• By using it only for directions

What is the significance of the collaboration between Bing Maps and Flickr?

• It removes user-generated content

• It enhances the integration of crowd-sourced imagery

• It focuses only on professional photography

• It limits the use of images

What potential does Bing Maps' integration of user content have beyond visual representation?

• Limited to static maps

• No additional potential

• Time travel and augmented reality

• Only visual representation

What new capability was demonstrated live at Pike Place Market?

• Static images

• Indoor mapping with a backpack camera

• Only outdoor mapping

• No live demonstration

What astronomical feature is integrated into Bing Maps?

• None of the above

• NASA's Hubble

• Google Sky

• WorldWide Telescope