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Navigation: Video Maps
Navigation: Video Maps
While car navigation systems are gaining in importance, maps are still the medium of choice for laying out a route to a destination. However, even with a map, one is almost always more comfortable navigating a route the second time due to the visual memory of the route.
A novel navigation system under development at Microsoft aims to tweak visual memory with carefully chosen video clips of a route. The navigation system, called Videomap, adjusts the speed of the video and the picture to highlight key areas along the route. To make the first time navigating a route feel more familiar, the system integrates a map with a video automatically constructed from panoramic imagery captured at close intervals along the route.
