Developer Richard Brundritt has created a new Flight Simulator plugin for Microsoft Virtual Earth (our Virtual Earth API profile) that uses the VE3D map control to provide a very cool user experience.
By leveraging the 3D API, Richard has managed to create the first flight simulation experience in Virtual Earth that puts users inside of a realistic cockpit, complete with controls and a visual readout of heading, pitch, altitude, latitude and longitude. Note that Navigation can be controlled via keyboard or XBox 360 control.
Richard has documented how he created the plugin in a four-part series of posts on his blog, and he has made the source code for the plugin available as well. According to Richard’s blog post, he was inspired to develop the plugin after noticing that there hasn’t been a lot of development against the 3D API yet outside of the business world.
Although this is a very slick mashup, it’s not the first flight sim on an online map. One of the most popular mashup listings of all time on PW is this one for Googles, a fun app built on the Google Maps API back in 2006 (our Google Maps Flight Sim coverage).
Richard’s VE flight simulator is a great new mashup and a welcome addition to our list of Virtual Earth mashups. And be sure to check out our Mapping API Dashboard for the latest on map APIs and mashups.
[Hat Tip: Virtual Earth Blog]
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68 Responses to “Microsoft Virtual Earth Gets a 3D Flight Simulator”
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at 11:10 pm
I love your blog and, though I rarely have time to read it, will be sorry to see it go. However, when you say that “A newspaper or magazine would not allow PepsiCo to write articles about global health or nutrition – there is a very clear conflict of interest there” I have to call B.S.
Magazines do this sort of thing all the time, and it’s perfectly OK even under the rules of the Magazine Publishers of America: It’s called advertorial.
I can’t believe I’m actually defending Adam Bly in a public forum, but here goes: SB is a business like any other. You may not have noticed, but even august publications like Scientific American have issues with pages and pages of editorial in the middle written by some corporate or national interest –- and it’s all clearly marked as advertorial. This kind of high-value advertising subsidizes an awful lot of the costs of publishers.
So the real question is (and I have no idea on this count) is the PepsiCo blog clearly marked as sponsored content? Keeping in mind that there are no hard and fast rules for this online, yet, as far as I know.
at 11:10 pm
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at 11:11 pm
I challenge this entire article, by the metric given the amount of merchandise Home Depot sell the complaint are actually far lower when compared to independent , window they make a mistake they reorder free of charge and so they do for anything else ,.
If you are a contractor and do not take in consideration the real fact one or 2 delivery will be late , you need to go back to school , because no one can control the weather no one can control deliveries , we all hope for the best and sometimes it does not happen , as a contractor should you not take this factor in your bid
at 11:11 pm
f you do not you are not a contractor , nothing else but narcissist jack of all trades .
If you are a contractor you get the sales associate business card and you call before coming He or She will be there within 5 minutes of the schedule , there are not really excuse , you get days off so do they.
Appliances , there are no local independent they all refer you to the same factory repair co for service and in California appliances fall under the lemon laws the tech need to give so many service call before it can be replaced , it’s the law …
at 11:12 pm
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None of the sales associates at Home depot are on commission , who do you think is going to push that expensive sale against your interest small factor .
The difference between Home depot and local dealer is on the price which can be several hundreds dollars , we all have extra money to spare don’t we? ..
at 11:12 pm
Knowledge of the product , most are very well versed in their appliances just as well as independent some far more .
Kitchen Cabinets according to Ms Julie Carlson “scandinavian name” editior in chief of remodelista.com , the same lady that blasted Home Depot for not being green but she use exclusively pencil made from cented cedar , the vast majority of the wood to make these very specific pencil come from old growth wood for the grain
at 11:13 pm
so much for being green “a detail few people know” as an editor in chief I do expect her to be aware of that fact . Let’s talk about Her style , it is pure Scandinavian , nothing wrong per say but not much of a selection,they are the one that invented the floating floor so they could take it with them when moving , same for furnitures everything to be broken down flat .
Average life of an Ikea kitcken , average life of a Kraftmaid/American woodmark /Thomasville/Martha Stewart kitchen 25 years..
at 11:13 pm
this equal 5 trips to the landfill not so green are we with Ikea ?
All these cabinets have a lifetime warranty , and they honor it to , Ikea as long as you can see the tail light , when they change product doors are no longer available , their customer then go to home depot to order custom doors . :-} true .
Cabinets construction are in particle and fiber board at Ikea.
Home depot offer 3 types engineered , plywood end and all plywood , all exceeding the strict California air quality “no deadly formaldehyde” as well as exeeding all national standards for cabinets constructions ..
at 11:13 pm
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at 11:14 pm
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at 11:14 pm
That’s why other far more intelligent companies like Samsung put true newest next gen Broadcom technology in their products. That…. over going for the two year old cheap junk Apple went for. Apple? “…yeah let’s make it look nice…. who cares if it works” mentality. Just make it cheapest you can, so we’re putting more money in our pockets. Apple = True Gypsy Con Artist and Informercialistic Marketing at it’s finest. Forget the customers… they’re too dumb to tell the difference anyway….. Right? Pull a rabbit out of a hat while we have a shill expounding on the glories of Apple, while we pick their pockets! …..Well at least if you’re a CrApple iFan that is!!!..
at 11:15 pm
All of the above are very good points that every IT manager should be thinking about. One critical aspect is missing – I/O performance. All IT organizations are heavily using virtualization for the easier applications (web services, file servers, mail, test/dev), but the big trend in 2011 will be applying virtualization to the I/O intensive applications such as those built on Oracle/SAP/DB2 etc. Having performance and utilization monitoring tools that have a real-time view of the full SAN I/O stack (server-HBA-switch-array LUN) will be essential for any organization virtualizing mission-critical apps or moving them to a cloud implementation. Solutions like Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom (for F1000 IT shops) or SolarWinds (for SMB sites) should be serious considerations.
at 11:15 pm
Apart from the need of both business skills and medical
knowledge, dentists routinely perform very intricate handwork
to exceedingly narrow tolerances in challenging, confined
environments for conscious and sometimes wriggly people
who would prefer to be elsewhere ? and half the time we do
it through a mirror. Fillings that demand concentration and
eye-hand acrobatics to be done well enough to chew on
require unhurried dentistry.
at 11:16 pm
Butler adds: ?Overhead costs are huge. Anywhere from 60%
to 80% of what a patient pays goes toward the expense of
running a modern dental practice.? ..
at 11:16 pm
Now wait just one darn minute! Let?s do the math: If the CBS
reporter says a dentist?s overhead is roughly 70%, and
discount dentistry brokers like Delta Dental, BCBSTX and
UnitedHealth promise to cut their contracted dentists? fees
30% – or more, does that mean the dentists they prefer work
for free – or less? One thing for certain: Preferred providers
have to work faster to make less money…
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