Virtual Tourism Switzerland - for some reason, there are numerous 3D projects thereo Flying Over Switzerland (Viewtec) - apparently discontinued around 2006o Lucerne / Switzerland in 3-D tourism-oriented website with a few city walkthroughs uses the Java-based Shout3D engine as a plugin the 3D parts didnt work for me when i tried it on 04.08.28, after loading models and parsing scene, only a empty black window DORIS - interMAPo Austrian digital space imagery organization offering a 3D visualization of the Traunsee region of Austria (again, using the Geonova / G-Vista software) In volo sullIsola dElba (fly over the island of Elba, Italy)o has nice high-res pan-sharpened orthophotoso uses the 3DIMap viewer (Shockwave-based web viewer)Standalone Applications Vizerrao Vizerra produces detailed 3D models of touristic areas - Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu, Angkor Wat etc.o The models are viewed with a free, Windows-only application, built on the Gamebryo game engine.o It is a somewhat heavy download (50MB, plus 200MB per scene)o The company is based in Russia, launched 2008, apparently owned or in partnership with NVidia.o While indeed detailed and impressive, the models do exhibit some odd aesthetic choices, e.g. the hills and terraces of Machu Picchu look like vivid green styrofoam.Installations Virtual Florida Everglades (1998) o an educational simulation of the Everglades, with vegetation and animalso built on the Unreal game engine by Victor J. DeLeon, H. Robert Berryo the goal: a richly detailed 3D virtual environment, which could be used to educate the public and promote ecological awarenesso designed for a location-based installation with a large screen and multiple viewers Virtual Garden Walkthrough o allows you to take a virtual walk through Japans famous Motsuji Temple Paradise garden which was destroyed 770 years agoo bundled with a jogging exercise machine, so that you get a workout while navigating around the garden! UST Projects - Jerusalems Temple Mounto modelled in MultiGen and running only on high-end SGI machines, the Urban Simulation Team at UCLA recreated how excavators believe the Temple Mount site appeared prior to its destruction by Roman troops in the year 70 CEo opened to the public in 2001, apparently still open as of 2007Services Austrian company 3D BASE produces animated walkthrough visualizations of tourism development projects o the product is called TourisVis, a visualisation system for tourist regions, which are engaged to provide something special for their guestsAcademic Papers Patrick Aschwanden, Thomas Ohler, Renato Pajarola, Peter Stucki, Kornel Szabo, Peter Widmayer. A Virtual Reality based System Environment for Intuitive Walk-Throughs and Exploration of Large-Scale Tourist Information. Proc. of the Enter95 Conference, pp. 10-15, 1995 o related to their ViRGIS project which was a tourism prototype with navigation over the Swiss AlpsCDROM Titles Eingana - Review (2002):o was around $60 from PlanetObserver (France)o a remarkable, seamless interactive navigation over the entire Earth, from space down to ground level, at any time of dayo elevation is 200m over the USA and Europe, 1 km elsewhereo all of the high-resolution detail around the viewpoint (both elevation and imagery) is provided by fractal-type random generation, which is occasionally quite effective and dramatico there are a lot of special details, distributed both procedurally and manually: land and sea animals, vegetation, buildings in a few cities, place names, satellite image insets, moreo there are some truly unique and stunning effects, such as glowing city lights at nighto framerate is high when you stand in one place and look around, or move up and down; zooms in or out from space to ground are exhilaratingo unfortunately, framerate drops to painfully slow ( 1 fps even on a fast machine) when the viewpoint moves horizontally Explore Kilauea Volcano o $30, see the Hawaii page Virtual Holy Land (1999)o CDROM-based interactive 3D viewer with large, hand-modeled content, of several real places mentioned in the Bible, from developer Virtual Excursions. Impressive for its time. No information on what became of the title or its models.Older / Historical 3D Flight Over Switzerland (2005) o from Geonova AG, using the G-Graphix tools and G-Vista runtime plugin (now apparently gone)o absolute beautiful 25m satellite with 1m/0.5m aerial inset imageryo great data, good interaction speed and reasonable texture paging performance - an exciting combination LiveDolomiti - 3D Flight over Dolomites o the Dolomites are mountains, situated in north-east Italy to the south of the Alpso the website had a number of pre-rendered panoramic images, and a VRML-based flyover with satellite image and pagingo apparently it evolved into or otherwise merged with Italy eXplorer Virtual