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One thing is clear – on its Download Center, in the move from Virtual Earth 3D Beta to Bing Maps 3D, Microsoft has managed to lose the Beta label. Microsoft failed to indicate whether the new Bing Maps 3D was nothing more than a simple rebranding of Virtual Earth, or if the release offered on June 2nd was the final version. At that time Microsoft offered for download the Beta build of Virtual Earth 3D 4.0. The last fully fledged release of Virtual Earth 3D happened back in April 2009.
As Bing was rolling out, Live Search Maps became Bing Maps, and Virtual Earth was rebranded as Bing Maps for Enterprise. It was the case for both Live Search Maps and Virtual Earth, and now Virtual Earth 3D.īing Maps 3D is now offered for download to users looking for the old Virtual Earth 3D. With the advent of Bing, only properties, services and even platforms formerly associated with the now-defunct Live Search have been slowly transitioning under the new brand umbrella. Fact is that it was just a matter of time before Virtual Earth 3D followed in the footsteps of the Virtual Earth platform. Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D 4.0 Beta is available for download here.Virtual Earth 3D is dead, well, at least the brand is. Pendleton enumerated additional improvements, including: initialized event Digital Elevation Model data ILocationListener, Synchronous rendering Datasource ConnectionParameters CelestialStyle Versioning Pixel-width lines Constant value datasources Terrain Scaling Override OnPaint Building Culling Value Turn on/off street level navigation. But once switched on, Anisotropic Filtering will deliver a high level of detail and reduce blur. Faaland indicated that the appearance of the terrain was improved no matter the angle of view, but that the new feature was off by default in order to tailor Virtual Earth 3D to the largest array of graphics cards. “This release is billed primarily as a perf and bug release because it doesn't add a lot of new features at the end-user level (though I think you will be pleased with the perf improvements), but we did have time to throw in some good stuff for the devs,” Microsoft's Nikolai Faaland revealed, with Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth tech evangelist, Microsoft, adding that, “The performance benefits include compression of building textures for all 1.4 million buildings in the Virtual Earth 3D control (yes, 1.4 million).”Īmong the enhancements that end-users will be bound to notice, in addition to the boost in performance is the introduction of Anisotropic Filtering.
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While new features are available with the latest release of Virtual Earth 3D, Microsoft has emphasized that the upgrade is, in fact, focused on delivering a consistent performance boost ahead of anything else.
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In this regard, the software giant also delivered the April 2009 release of the Virtual Earth API (application-programming interface), which brings to the table an evolved AJAX control. The latest iteration of the Virtual Earth 3D Control went live on the Microsoft Download Center on April 9, 2009, concomitantly with additional changes introduced by the company to its mapping, location and search platform. Virtual Earth 3D 4.0 is available for download from Microsoft.
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