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This is my first in a series of posts I will be putting on about some of the new technology that sparked my interest out here at Location Intelligence. One of the most exciting is Blue Dasher Technologies 360 degree street view solution. We had them at our booth showing off the demo and we ended up having a nice size crowd form around. We know Google has street view technology, but what we saw from Blue Dasher was a major step up in quality and features. You get a smooth animation down the street like you where driving in a car and a full 360 degree view so you can pan/tilt the view around any angle. The ad features provide virtual billboards which can display images and full motion video. The viewer dash board is skinnable and they also showed us a few different views including a simulated Land Rover style dash.

I'll be updating this blog post with a bit more information, but for now if your at the show get in touch with Mike - michael@bluedashertech.com and check out www.bluedashertech.com - you really need to see this!

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