[Gdal-dev] GeoFusion announces free GeoPlayer_Mars download

[Tyler Mitchell]

Nice app and appreciable goals of the product.  Does it have some 
underlying relationship to GDAL?

gdal-dev-admin at remotesensing.org wrote on 04/23/2004 01:09:28 AM:

> GeoFusion Press Release
> April 2004
> 3D Interactive Mars DEMO
> Company: GeoFusion, Inc.
> Industry: Interactive Global Visualization, Gaming, Homeland 
> Security, Military/Defense
> Location: Watsonville, CA, United States of America 
> 
> Watsonville, CA — GeoFusion, Inc., a leading innovator in geospatial
> technologies, announces GeoPlayer Mars, created with GeoMatrix 
> Toolkit technology, the 3D foundation to ESRI’s ArcGLOBE software. 
> 
> Download the 32MB demo now at: http://www.geofusion.com/MarsDemo
> 
> The GeoPlayer Mars program allows you to explore the Red Planet from
> outer space to rocks on the Martian surface. You can fly through 
> valleys and over craters on desktop PCs and laptop computers. This 
> program was created with the C++ GeoMatrix Toolkit which provides an
> object-oriented API enabling software developers to build 
> interactive full-globe georeferenced applications.  The toolkit SDK 
> is a complete development environment that includes modular 
> libraries, example applications with source code, and documentation.
> 
> GeoFusion's software technology provides the engine and 
> infrastructure for doing high performance global visualization of 
> virtually unlimited amounts of imagery, terrain, vector, and 
> annotation data. It provides a way of displaying vast amounts of 
> heterogeneous geospatial information which is shown in a global 
> context while allowing for interactive zooming into complex visually
> stunning scenes. It allows one to obtain a new meaning of 
> information through innovative ways of layering, animating and 
> blending together different types of geospatial information derived 
> from maps, satellite imagery, annotation, and vector data.
> 
> About GeoFusion, Inc.
> Founded in 2001, GeoFusion, Inc., is a three-dimensional 
> visualization technology company dedicated to putting the earth on 
> everybody's desktop. This vision is being implemented through 
> licensing of its GeoMatrix Toolkit, strategic partner product 
> developments, and custom application and rendering services. 
> 
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