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An all-too-brief video accompanies this MSNBC.com story about the Geospatial Decision Making project at the University of Southern California (aka GeoDec), which layers real-time video atop a virtual 3D environment. The video shows live shots of cars passing along the streets of a virtual city. A pair of “data gloves” is used to control the app. Interesting possibilities here — including some frightening ones in the area of surveillance. But a nice-looking technology nonetheless. GeoDec can apparently combine sources from several data streams in a smooth and timely fashion. And it’s multi-user, apparently:

GeoDec could conceivably be applied to fields ranging from urban planning to emergency response to military surveillance — with multiple agents accessing the same multilayered database.