From the labs of Microsoft Research comes Microsoft’s Streetside, a new approach to “street view” for Microsoft’s mapping application. Streetside will be Microsoft’s rival product to Google’s Street View.
The new technology called Street Slide brings together more than one panorama into the street view application. The technology lets a user zoom in and out of the panoroma without having to click the directional arrows, which can make for a fairly fluid browsing experience when wishing to take a brief closer look at specific location in the cityscape.
The new technology has not yet been introduced to Bing maps or any other map products within Microsoft.