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Based in Mountain View, California, Keyhole
was founded in January 2001 by Internet and 3D graphics
veterans. The company secured $4.6 million in
Series A financing, led by Sony Broadband Entertainment's
550 Digital Media Ventures,
to build and market the premier set of rich mapping
services. The company has received additional
investments from
NVIDIA corporation
and from
Oakstone Ventures.
Keyhole has mastered the difficult task of fusing
massive vector, image and points of interest (POI)
datasets into a multi-terabyte 3D model of the globe,
compiling this data into a scalable server
environment, and delivering this data using
patent-pending technology to PCs, PDA's, set-top boxes
and wireless devices.
The Company's service revolves around the
proprietary
EarthSystem solution,
which will transform the way users interact with
their world over the Internet and connected devices.
By providing terabytes of overhead and point of
interest (POI) imagery data on demand, a turn-key
ASP solution, integration of customer data, and
a flexible client architecture, EarthSystem delivers
a new perspective on the world and on the enterprise.
Keyhole's EarthSystem fuses vectors, images, and POIs
into a single, seamless dataset to create the
ultimate geographic reference platform.
Keyhole's EarthSystem offers service-provider
scalability and reliability. Large customers
with demanding or proprietary needs can also host
the entire environment
(
system specifications).
Partners can easily publish
their own GIS data as overlays onto the Keyhole basemap
using a locally deployed EarthStream server.
This configuration offers the best of both
worlds--an incredibly realistic 3D imagery substrate
populated with business critical data.
Keyhole's EarthViewer3D client offers a jaw-dropping
space-to-face user experience.
And Keyhole's EarthViewerHTML and
Keyhole's EarthViewerPDA enable access to the rich
maps from a variety of connected devices.
The Keyhole EarthSystem was developed using
Intrinsic Alchemy, a high-performance game
development platform for delivering
real-time 3D applications across multiple systems.
Intrinsic Alchemy is the first product of
Intrinsic Graphics,
a Silicon Valley based computer graphics pioneer.
Learn more about the
Keyhole EarthSystem Architecture.
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©2003 I-Cubed, ©2003 AirPhotoUSA.
Maps © GDT Inc.
All rights reserved.
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