Sometimes my job is made really easy by other people. Today that person is Blaise Aguera y Arcas who is a Bing Maps Architect.
I first met Blaise back in 2007, when he took me through some of the cooler stuff to demo on Photosynth and Seadragon.
Back then, he explained that what you see in the above video and currently on Bing Maps in the US would be possible one day.
It’s great to work somewhere where dreams like this become a reality, and there are people like Blaise around to explain it all so eloquently.
On the Bing Blog the team have talked about what they call Spatial Search
“The idea behind Spatial Search came from looking at human psychology and trying to understand how we as humans make decisions. We use all our senses: sight, touch, smell, sound, and taste.
Today’s blue-link model doesn’t do a good job in tapping any of those senses and instead made you visually recreate models in your head to get through complex tasks. In other words, when you read a review of that French bistro, you had to manufacture everything: the street location, the ambience, where exactly in the city it was, and more.
While we’re not working on smell-o-search (yet!), we do think we can do a better job with the ‘sight’ and ‘touch’ senses you rely on every day.
It’s going to take a little while to get there. But we believe our focus on your needs as searchers and more importantly as people will ultimately help us build technology to reconnect the wandering data to where it wants to be – the real world.”
Watch the video, read the blog post and imagine how this thinking could change your lives.
Cheers
Mel
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