Microsoft on Monday unveiled a new, downloadable browser application that brings the photorealism and maneuverability of gaming into its online mapping and local search service. In Virtual Earth 3D, ...

A very cool (but for me, almost unusable) version of Virtual Earth was released today by Microsoft called "Virtual Earth 3D". Instead of using a separate application to view 3D imagery, everything can ...

Microsoft debuted a true analogue to Google Earth on Thursday, launching a Bing Maps Preview app for Windows 8.1 that moves Maps into true 3D. The new app, available in the Windows Store, even ...

What do you think of when you see the words "Microsoft Excel?" For many, it's "cells," "numbers," and "formulas." However, there's much more to the program than that! You can also create stunning 3D ...

Microsoft Excel comes packed with several predefined table styles for you to choose from. If you want to format a table, your best bet is to choose from one of the many styles. Now, if the predefined ...

A visitor at the Musée des Plans-Reliefs in Paris uses Microsoft HoloLens to get a mixed reality experience around a 3D relief map of the landmark Mont-Saint-Michel. (Microsoft Photo) The historic ...

There's a model of an odd-looking boat on a tabletop in front of me, and a woman is capturing it with her phone's camera. Only she's not just snapping a photo of the thing — she's moving around it, ...

As impressive as the simulated world is, Google 3D maps often provides more detailed images of what's on the ground. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Blackshark.ai, the Austrian startup behind the digital globe you fly over in Microsoft’s Flight Simulator, has raised a $20 million round A to develop and scale its replica-Earth tech. The potential ...