Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps

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Google Maps now has an app that takes the Photosynth software a massive step further, in allowing you to integrate geo-tagged flickr images into the google street view - pretty amazing augmenting with crowd-sourced images.

What’s really mind-blowing however is the capacity now to drop in live streaming video, again geo-located to the site you’re looking at - wow - As Blaise Aguera y Arcas notes, the app can enable telepresence as the demo of the crew demonstrates in Seattle’s Pike Place market or it can pull in all kinds of metadata. The last reveal is the integration of Curtis Wong’s World Wide Telescope which allows you to read the sky’s constellations. The zoom in to the moon is amazing