Google buys Quicksee for USD10 million to enhance quality of Google Maps
Posted on 12. Sep, 2010 by Allen Smith in Buzz
Google acquires Israel-based start up company Quicksee. The value of the Google – Quicksee deal is rumored at $10 million, although there is no official statement as regards the move from either the Google or the Quicksee.
Quicksee is a site that enables users to have a “Virtual Reality” confines within a premise that the Google StreetView cameras can’t go.
For instance, the QuickSee 3D video tour software enables you to have a 360-degrees panoramic view from normal and so you can even film ceiling of a building that you otherwise cannot do with an ordinary StreetView Camera or that calls the use of expensive 3D-camera mounted atop the Google vehicle.
The filmed video can then be uploaded to the Quicksee server along with the data about geographic location and direction and attached to Google Map; the end result would be as similar as the Street View via Google Map but with much better and a 3D-panoramic 360-degrees view of the street or the landscape.
Although it is not clear as to how the Quicksee’s 3D video tour software will be applied by the Google, but it is speculated that Google may likely have have geotags and 3D panoramic views uploaded by users to the Google Maps, so to get enhanced view of the geo-world index in the Google Maps.
