GEO SEARCH

The internet can provide a vast amount of information to the end user. However, sometimes the overflow of information can be overwhelming. This is where Geo-searching excels at providing the best value for the customers.

Having the means of targeting geographic information from our home, or desktop, has become part of the expectations for any internet user. When looking to buy a property we want to see the surrounding environment, to see how close public transport services are and how the neighbourhood looks.

3D social platforms such as “Second Life” or “IMVU”, where the users try to recreate a virtual reality for meeting people with avatar images, is an example of what internet users are demanding today; a virtual environment where users can talk and socialise with people in a specific place or city. The groups created by the users within these communities usually share common interests, such as the language they speak or where they live.

Interactive tourist guides, where the user travel virtually to a destination and see if the location looks as they expect, or for finding interesting monuments and seeing how far they are from one another, are becoming more and more expected by modern tourist information guides, such as the on-line Travel Guide from the Repsol Petrol Company.

The games industry is quickly evolving and aiming towards the concept of recreating 3D virtual worlds for users to interact by means of socialising, racing or fighting. High quality graphic accelerators provide gaming consoles the capability of showing true 3D backgrounds and Blom provide the information for developing these real experiences.