Google Street View eat your heart out: An MIT-built quadrocopter uses Microsoft Kinect, and some smart odometry algorithms, to fly around a room and spit out a 3D map of the environment. The drone ...

Waymo employees will initially drive the vehicles to create 3D maps of the city. These maps are unlike Google Maps or Waze. Instead, they include topographical features such as lane merges, shared ...

Google on Wednesday unveiled what it has promoted as the "next dimension" of its Maps service, with new full 3D renderings for Google Earth that were demonstrated live on an Apple iPad.

3D maps are also coming to phones and tablets in Google Maps 5.0 for Android. Tablets using Android 3.0 Honeycomb, and phones with the Maps 5.0 on, can see 3D buildings as well as using vector images.

The Depth Pro system doesn't bother with all that though, yet is able to generate a detailed 3D depth map at 2.25 megapixels from a single image in 0.3 seconds via a standard graphics processing unit.

Google detailed how it is planning on bringing better 3D maps: “This starts with planes equipped with custom Google-designed imaging systems, positioned in coordinates,” Birch explained.

Nokia launches photorealistic 3D models of metropolitan areas for Ovi Maps Published April 19, 2011 - Unparalleled degree of 3D realism and scale helps people get a feel for places before they get ...