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Baltimore Orioles Go 3-D; "Virtual Birdland" Enables Fans to Virtually View Camden Yards and Surrounding Areas
BALTIMORE, Maryland, June 22, 2009 — Fans planning to visit the Baltimore Orioles' famed Oriole Park at Camden Yards can now take a realistic virtual 3-D tour of the area — including the ballpark, surrounding attractions, traffic routes and parking options — from the comfort of their own homes. The Orioles are the first professional baseball team to employ this new virtual 3-D geospatial visualization technology to enhance their fans' experience. Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, created multiple 3-D flyover videos of the Camden Yards vicinity, which are now available on the Orioles' Virtual Birdland web site (www.orioles.com/virtualbirdland). The videos provide visitors with realistic views of the ballpark and surrounding areas, which are visited annually by millions of fans. The 3-D videos allow anyone with a computer and Internet connection to 'virtually' fly over the park, adjacent parking lots, entrance roadways, and the nearby Inner Harbor. "Virtual Birdland provides Orioles fans with a clear view of what they will see prior to arriving at Oriole Park, and helps familiarize them with traffic patterns, ample parking options, and other area attractions surrounding the ballpark," said Greg Bader, Orioles Director of Communications. "This is especially convenient for first-time visitors who are unfamiliar with the area and want to become more comfortable with where they are going, and how to get there. We are confident that Virtual Birdland will demonstrate the ease and convenience of attending a game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards and we're very excited to offer this capability to our fans." Still photos of the video are available by clicking at the links below: Skyline View, Stadium View, Harbor View Harris, which provides geospatial visualization technology and models to business, government and military customers, used its patented geospatial RealSite® solution to transform aerial data and ground-based imagery into an extremely accurate model and videos of the ballpark and neighboring downtown Baltimore area. Along with Camden Yards, Harris also recently produced 3-D virtual models and videos of Washington, DC, the Presidential Inauguration Parade route, the National Memorial Day Parade route, Arlington National Cemetery, and the U.S. Marine Corps Marathon route. Built from ground, aerial and satellite imagery using technology developed for government customers, 3-D urban models like the one of Baltimore's Camden Yards are geospatially accurate. Harris has developed nearly 500 global 3-D models during the past five years as a prime contractor for the U.S. government. These applications are used in a number of important areas:
About the Baltimore Orioles About Harris Corporation # # # Contact Information: Sleighton Meyer
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Jim Burke
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