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The News Goes 3D on YouTube

Last week, we took a look at YouTube's testing of 3D videos after a thread was spotted in the YouTube Help Center where an employee was discussing the concept. This was part of his "20%" time.

A 3D Future for YouTube?

Google is testing 3D videos on YouTube. An interesting post in the YouTube Help Center was discovered by Search Engine Roundtable's Barry Schwartz, and a Google employee is apparently using his "20% time" to work on the "stereoscopic player". There is even a test video (at least one) that is live:

3D Video Could Be Possibility In YouTube's Future

Google is still letting its employees play with their 20% time, as evidenced by the newest YouTube project spotted: three dimensional video. Pete, the Googler behind this, confirmed this in a YouTube Help thread, saying that the project is “currently very early.” Pete says the current tags in the project are:

Google and the Guggenheim Host Architecture Competition

Google has teamed up with the Guggenheim Museum to create a design competition to design a "simple shelter for a specific geographic location anywhere in the world." Contestants will use Google's SketchUp, Google earth, and Google 3D Warehouse to design, geo-locate, and upload their projects.

Disneyland Paris Now In Google Earth

It was almost a year ago that Walt Disney created a 3D virtual tour of Disney World and made it available in Google Earth. Now it has done the same with Disneyland Paris. The Google Lat Long Blog provides more details.

Google Gets Involved with Potential 3D Graphics Standard

Tech companies are getting together to crate an open, royalty-free standard for presenting accelerated 3-D graphics online. Included in the consortium are Google, Adobe, Intel, Apple, and others.

Google Launches New Version of SketchUp

Google has announced the release of SketchUp 7. SketchUp is software you can use to build 3D models for any number of project types, including Google Earth projects. In version 7, Google has added a whole slew of new features.

Google Earth Models Getting Better

Google Earth is doing some amazing things as highlighted with their announcement the other day of the Ancient Rome layer (shown in the video below).

Exploring the History of the Future with Google Earth

Google has teamed up with Past Perfect Productions, UCLA, and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia to bring Ancient Rome back to life with a new Google Earth layer.

Disney World Now In 3D On Google Earth

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts is now on Google Earth in 3D allowing users to virtually tour Disney's four theme parks and its 22 hotels and resorts.There are 1,500 3D points of interest in the virtual tour of Disney. Users can click on images to get more information about an attraction, purchase tickets, make reservations and map out their vacation.