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#Ms virtual earth 3d install#
#Ms virtual earth 3d windows#

Google is going to have a hard time living up to this. This is stunning, and they should be damn proud. Seriously, Microsoft has just changed my view of what a web browser is capable of. Stop moving, and you could confuse the view with a photograph (if you ignore the road names). Google has basic, featureless buildings, while Virtual Earth 3D’s buildings are textured. Loading seems a little slower than Google’s, but not significantly, while the 3D building kick the ass of Google’s. The experience: Excellent! While Virtual Earth 3D can’t have all the bells and whistles of Google Earth, it has better memory management, runs in a freakin’ web browser (!) and actually looks better. The left thumbstick handles position, the right thumbstick pivots the view, and the left and right triggers handle altitude. The best part: Just like with Google Earth, you can navigate with an Xbox 360 controller, and the controls are even tighter than Google Earth’s. You get three options for quality, in order to improve speed and performance. Not that I did…Īnyway, once you’ve installed the ActiveX control, you can click the 3D link to load up the 3D interface, which happens quite quickly.

#Ms virtual earth 3d install#

The issue I ran into: If your default browser is not Internet Explorer, the install may try to launch in the other browser, and you may not notice what the hell is going on, clicking and clicking and clicking until you are ready to go insane. Be sure to explore Help if you have a problem. Installation is not easy, with a lot of random factors that can go wrong. Wow, I just spent a LOT of time discovering a really stupid bug with this. Hardware acceleration must be set to Full.A video card with 32 MB or greater video memory that is compatible with Microsoft DirectX 9.

#Ms virtual earth 3d windows#

Windows Internet Explorer version 6 or 7, with security settings set to enable or prompt Microsoft ActiveX controls.

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, or the Windows Vista operating system.

Visit in IE 6 or 7 (no support for Firefox, Opera or Safari) and you will be asked to install a plugin for Virtual Earth 3D.

Some of us knew this day was coming: Today, Microsoft added a 3D interface to Virtual Earth, giving its local search/mapping product a user experience similar to Google Earth, all within the Internet Explorer browser.