Vizrt announced the complete integration between map creation software, World Maps, by Viz| Curious and Microsoft's Virtual Earth platform. Virtual Earth delivers on-demand aerial and satellite imagery high resolution.
Graphic professionals in television stations they can now populate their World Maps templates, by Viz| Curious, with aerial images and Earth natives of Virtual Earth. World Maps offers local broadcasters access to the images stored in the Internet-based server Virtual Earth, from Microsoft.
We are excited that Vizrt has successfully managed to integrate our maps with its graphic solution for the broadcast sector, said Stephen Lawler, general manager of the Business Unit Virtual Earth at Microsoft Corp. This use of the platform Virtual Earth opens up new opportunities for the broadcast through the creative application of images and of information about places, which is key to help people to understand what each site is really like.
The spectacular images of Birds Eye in Virtual Earth are unique. With a view oblique, viewers get a much more appearance realist. Oblique images offer the perspective of terrain of a city at an angle other than that of an aerial shot or satellite. The images and capabilities found in the Microsoft Virtual Earth server, combined with the control stylistic world maps by Viz| Curious, they offer to the broadcasters relative opportunities.
Through the integration of This product, broadcasters can now use images stored on Microsoft's Virtual Earth platform with the same stylistic control they are used to with Viz World Maps| Curious.
We believe that systems for transmission of Vizrt over-the-air graphics and vibe graphics resources Microsoft for network-based data and content delivery do a perfect match, said Haid Hatic, president of Sales of Viz| Curious Software. This innovation has created a display of graphs and content resource offering highly beneficial for broadcasters, allowing them to reach and inform new and existing audiences, even more effectively.
Integration enables the World Map of Viz| Curious work across multiple platforms, including television, internet and mobile devices.
Vizrt also presented recently version 7.0 of World Maps, by Viz| Curious, the standard solution for creating high 2D and 3D animated maps quality, for use in broadcast, presentations and programming of Internet. Version 7.0 adds the latest update to Collins Bartholomew, an English service provider customized and creation of digital maps. Version 7.0 also includes support for different compression schemes of images that allow Curious's World Maps users manipulate large number of image files with greater facility.
