What really goes on in the Microsoft Vexcel offices in Boulder? I’ve never made it down there to see first hand, but they boast this technology to robotically model and texture the 3d city scapes you see in Virtual Earth from aerial imagery. That sounds way too hard. For all I know they’re fronting a sweatshop of trained monkeys working 16 hour days twiddling AutoCAD, but either way the results are quite impressive

Read the rest at Virtual Earth / Windows Live Local Blog, and check out those cool pictures