Podcast: How to Read Microsoft's 3D Effort with trueSpace

By Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg
July 29, 2008

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Last week Microsoft announcedthat its recently acquired trueSpace 3D model creator is now free and models created with it can be uploaded as collections to Virtual Earth. What does that say about what Google, Microsoft and the geospatial community think about what tools and data are required for today's maps?

Show notes:

Announcing trueSpace for Virtual Earth 3D Development (Virtual Earth, an evangelist's blog, Chris Pendleton)
trueSpace website
Autodesk Positions Itself for 2008 and Beyond (Directions Magazine, see the "hottest demonstration" section)
Very Spatial Podcast 158 (A Very Spatial Podcast interview with Interview with Doug Eberhard of Autodesk )
3D, BIM and Going Green: Cities Are Challenged by a New Geospatial Revolution (Directions Magazine )
BIM Booms at BE Conference (All Points Blog )
ArcGIS 9.3 to Include Support for COLLADA (press release)
COLLADA (an open digital-asset exchange schema for the interactive 3D industry)
ESRI coverage contest details

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