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Microsoft buys Caligari for Virtual Earth 3D expansion

Feb 7, 2008 2:27 am by Kip Kniskern | 3 comments

Microsoft continues to invest in Virtual Earth, especially in the area of 3D, announcing yesterday it has acquired Caligari, makers of trueSpace, a 3D modeling program. Last December, Microsoft also acquired MultiMap, a London based mapping service, and in October announced a partnership with Dessault Systems to provide 3DVia for Virtual Earth 3D. Steve Lombardi has more on the Caligari announcement on the Virtual Earth / Live Maps blog, and Caligari CEO Roman Ormandy makes the announcement on the trueSpace Community Forums.

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WyzyrdMyrrlyn
interesting
jaydee777
I like live search better.
quikboy
3D is nice, but I want more improvement on just the plain regular mapping side for Live Maps.
How about info-related overlays (weather, counties, zip codes, etc.), gas prices in regular browsers, better imagery across the world, Street View-like thing, better support for other browsers, etc.
Those are more important than the 3D side of Live Maps.