The Google’s Street View service offers users to see streets, including 360-degree panoramic view of the scope.Microsoft has launched a similar Bing Streetside services, to provide users with panoramic street photos, but both services provide only limited observation point,Users cannot quickly navigate through the streets, step by step to press the arrow down the street forward, to quickly go to a place of street patterns must also be introduced, and then select the target on the map to go to.
Microsoft researchers came up with a clever solution, there R & D Street Slide not only provide a panoramic view of the individual sites, as well as street-level view mode, users can quickly navigate through the streets of panorama.
Streets in the Street Slide in slideshow mode, the user can see the street side of a two-way link photos, you can quickly drag around, turn the arrow sign can play a steering role, the user can quickly see the other side. At the intersection also offers a turn arrow, you can view the addition of a street, provided with shops, flats, construction of the label, to facilitate users to find, which also provides a new form of advertising. Radar map allows users to see the current location, will not stop the turned and lost.
Microsoft also will release iPhone version and Windows Phone 7 edition of the Street Slide, support for touch screen operation. But now this service is still in its early stages, Microsoft has produced only about 4 km long panoramic view point streets and 2,400 units.