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約一年半前,Stephen Lawler 同樣在此為 TED 2007 系列演說 Virtual Earth,他引領我成為 Bing 地圖架構師,那是微軟的線上地圖創新,過去兩年半以來,我們奮力改善線上地圖服務,我們確實從非常不同於那些地圖與導引網站的角度,試圖加以重新定義,您到訪地圖網站首先會注意到的是縮放與平移的流暢度,如果你熟悉 Seadragon 的話,就知那是他們所研發的功能,當然,地圖不只是製作地圖,還要考慮影像,所以,當我們放大到一定程度,即會解析成類似「模擬城市」般的45 度角虛擬景象,而且可以從任何角度切入,顯示出 3D 結構的城市景觀,所有建築物的外觀,但我們更將這個 3D 環境的空間視為是張畫布,所有的應用程式都能放上來,地圖導引其實只是其中一項,如果你按下這個鍵,即可看到,我們已在過去幾個月加入了一些應用,從我們正式推出算起,舉例而言,海地震災後的幾天,我們有了一套地震地圖可以顯示震災前後的鳥瞰圖片,這個應用很棒,但我沒有時間可以在此演示,它取用大量實時的當地部落格,將那些故事、記錄放在地圖上,標示出部落格上所指的地點,那真的很美妙,但我要向各位演示更誘人的玩意兒。
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About a year and a half ago Stephen Lawler who also gave a talk here at TED in 2007 on Virtual Earth brought me over to become the architect of Bing Maps, which is Microsoft's online mapping effort. In the past two and a half, we've been very hard at work on redefining the way maps work online. And we really are seeing this in very different terms from the kind of mapping and direction site that one is used to.
So, the first thing that you might notice about the mapping site, is just the fluidity of the zooming and the panning, which if, you're familiar with Seadragon, that's where it comes from.
Mapping is, of course, not just about cartography, it's also about imagery. So, as we zoom-in beyond a certain level this resolves into a kind of Sim City like virtual view at 45 degrees. This can be viewed from any of the cardinal directions to show you the 3D structure of the city, all the facades. Now, we see this space, this three dimensional environment as being a canvas on which all sorts of applications can play out. And map's directions are really just one of them.
If you click on this you'll see some of the ones that we've put out, just in the past couple of months, since we've launched. So, for example, a couple of days after the disaster in Haiti, we had an earthquake map that showed before and after pictures from the sky. This wonderful one which I don't have time to show you is taking hyper-local blogs in real time and mapping those stories, those entries to the places that are referred to on the blogs. It's wonderful.
But I'm going to show you some more candy sort of stuff.
So, we see the imagery, of course, not stopping at the sky. These little green bubbles represent photosynths that users have made. I'm not going to dive into them either, but photosynths and integrated into the map. Everything that's encased in blue is an area where we've taken imagery on the ground as well.
And so, when you fly down --
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我們所見的影像當然視角不能只停在空中,這些綠色小點代表使用者所創造的合成影像,我也沒時間「跳入」這部份,但要講合成影像及結合到地圖的成果,所有包圍在藍色線條內的地區,我們也都從地面取景,所以,當你「飛入」...(掌聲)謝謝,當你「飛入」地面時,便可以看到這種全景的影像,首先會發現的可能是,這不只是圖片,而是 3D 環境的實景,就如同鳥瞰的 3D 景像一般,所以,如果我按一下,以取得近距離的影像,視覺的轉換看起來就會是這個模式背後的所有幾何學運用,所有 3D 實境。
接下來,我要演示一個好玩的應用程式,這是我們與在 Flickr上班的朋友合作的成果,這使用了 Flickr 的地理標示影像及類影像合成的處理程序,以將那個影像連結到我們的影像,我不確定這張是否合適,但...(笑聲),但值得注意的是,這裡很明顯示是個熱門的觀光景點,這裡會有為數眾多的相片,而這些相片都攝於不同時間,這張攝於五點左右,那是 Flickr 的相片,這是我們的影像,我們可以看到這類背景為群眾的影像如何深深地融入到地圖上來(掌聲),謝謝。
有幾個理由可解釋為何這很有趣,其中之一當然是時間旅行,我不會在此演示美美的歷史景像,就是那種還有馬及馬車之類的影像,但真正酷炫的不僅是這擴增了世界的視覺呈現,貢獻自使用者的創造,而且還是擴增實境的基礎,這就是我接下來要進一步演示的主題,我剛將影像轉換到室內,這也很有趣,請看,我們頭上現在有屋頂了,我們來到 Pike Place 市場內,這代表著我們也能用背負式相機取景,而不只是在街道上用擺在車頂的相機取景,我們也能到室內取景,在那兒,我們也同樣能進行標示,不只是靜態影像,也能是影片,這就是我們現在要首度嘗試,現場實時,很令人感到戰戰兢兢(笑聲)。
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Thank you. When you fly down to the ground, and you see this kind of panoramic imagery, the first thing that you might notice is that it's not just a picture, there's just as much three-dimensional understanding of this environment as there is of the three-dimensional city from above, so if I click on something to get a closer view of it, then, the fact that that transition looks as it does, is a function of all of that geometry, all of that 3D understanding behind this model.
Now, I'll show you a fun app. that we've been working on a collaboration with our friends at Flickr. This takes Flickr-ed georegistered imagery and uses photosynth-like processes to connect that imagery to our imagery, so -- I'm not sure if that's the one I actually meant to pull up, but --
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But notice -- this is, of course, a popular tourist site, and there are lots of photos around here, and these photos are all taken at different times. So this one was taken around five. So that's the Flickr photo, that's our imagery. So you really see how this kind of crowd-sourced imagery is integrating, in a very deep way, into the map itself.
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Thank you.
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There are several reasons why this is interesting and one of them, of course, is time travel. And I'm not going to show you some of the wonderful historic imagery in here, but there are some with horses and carriages and so on as well. But what's cool about this is that, not only is it augmenting this visual representation of the world with things that are coming in from users, but it also is the foundation for augmented reality, and that's something that I'll be showing you more of in just a moment.
Now I just made a transition indoors. That's also interesting. Okay, notice there's now a roof above us. We're inside the Pike Place Market. And this is something that we're able to do with a backpack camera, so, we're not only imaging in the street with this camera on tops of cars, but we're also imaging inside. And from here, we're able to do the same sorts of registration, not only of still images, but also of video.
So this is something that we're now going to try for the first time, live, and this is really, truly, very frightening.
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Okay,(鈴聲),All right,夥伴們,你們聽得到嗎?(吵雜聲),All right,我正在台上演示,這是現場秀,All right,我們開始吧,伙伴們現在在 Pike Place 市場,我們的實驗室(掌聲),他們在實況轉播,Okay,George,你可以平移到市場的角落嗎?因為我要演示一些有趣的點,不不,另一邊,Yeah、yeah 回到角落,回到角落,我還不想看到你們,Okay,回到角落,回到角落,回到角落,Okay ,算了。
我想要演示的是這些有趣之處,位於影像的頂端,因為那可以讓你感受到就像你真的在現場一樣,你可以這麼思考,這又比擴增實境更進一步,你們這些傢伙在幹嘛!噢,抱歉(笑聲),我們在做兩件不同的...Okay,我要掛電話了,我們在做兩件不同的事,其一是取得真實的...(笑聲),All right,讓我們先暫停,謝謝他們,他們貢獻良多才能成就今天(掌聲)。
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Okay.
(Ringing)
All right, guys, are you there?
(Noise)
All right. I'm hitting it. I'm punching play. I'm live. All right. There we go. So, these are our friends in Pike Place Market, the lab.
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So they're broadcasting this live. Okay, George, can you pan back over to the corner market? Because I want to show points of interest. No, no. The other way. Yeah, yeah. back to the corner. Back to the corner. I don't want to see you guys yet. Okay. Okay. Back to the corner. Back to the corner. back to the corner. Okay, never mind.
What I wanted to show you was these points of interest over here on top of the image because what that gives you a sense of is the way, if you're actually on the spot ... you can think about this -- this is taking a step in addition to augmented reality.
What hell are you guys -- oh, sorry.
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We're doing two different ... Okay, I'm hanging up now. We're doing two different things here. One of them is to take that real ...
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All right, let me just take a moment and thank the team. They've done a fantastic job of pulling this together.
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我要關閉他們的轉播,回到室外,當我轉到室外,我要加註的是,我們使用的是遠距呈現技術,但你也同樣可以將這套運用於現場,融入擴增實境,當你將其運用於現場,那意謂著你可以使所有的元數據(詮釋資料),及關於世界的資訊都呈現在你眼前,所以,我們已進一步轉播,透過 4G 網路轉播來自市場現場的景象,All right,這是最近一場微軟數年前在 TED 的演講中,Curtis Wong 提到的「全球望遠鏡應用程式」,我們出發前往大垃圾桶堆放區,這是市場的傳統,經一整天的勞累,走出來透透氣,同時仰望天空,這就是我們融合「全球望遠鏡」畫面後的地圖(掌聲),這是現在的-謝謝-這是現在的時間,但如果我們移動時間,即可看到星空在不同時間的變化,我們可以獲得所有這些非常細微,有關不同時間、日期的資訊,讓我們將星空中的月亮移高些,也許變更日期,我喜歡拉近月亮,這就是天文完整,呈現星空並融入到我們的世界,好吧,我的時間到了,該結束了,感謝聆聽。
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I'm going to abandon them now and walk back outside. And while I walk outside, I'll just mention that here, we're using this for telepresence, but you can equally well use this on the spot, for augmented reality. When you use it on the spot, it means that you're able to bring all of that metadata and information about the world to you. So here, we're taking the extra step of also broadcasting it. That was being broadcast, by the way, on a 4G network from the market.
All right, and now there's one last TED talk that Microsoft has given in the past several years. And that's Curtis Wong, WorldWide Telescope. So, we're going to head over to the dumpsters, where it's traditional, after a long day at the market, to go out for a break, but also stare up at the sky. This is the integration of WorldWide Telescope into our maps.
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This is the current -- thank you -- This is the current time, but if we scrub the time, then we can see how the sky will look at different times, and we can get all this very detailed information about different times, different dates. Let's move the moon a little higher in the sky, maybe change the date. I would like to kind of zoom in on the moon. So, this is an astronomically complete representation of the sky integrated right into the Earth.
All right now, I've run my time, so I've got to stop. Thank you all very much.