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Future of 3D Street View To Include Live Video
An anonymous reader writes "3D textured cityscapes are nothing new to Google Earth users: international cities such as New York have displayed this type of imagery for a while now. But now Google has made a critical change to Google Earth — adding high-resolution Street View imagery to existing city textures, effectively creating a semi photo-realistic 3D sim city you can fly through on your PC. As this article and videos show, it's only the tip of some very fancy features coming to online maps, with Microsoft demonstrating the ability to see Flickr images of your surroundings as you fly through cities (including the bizarre possibility of seeing horses and carriages on the streets), look up at the sky and see the stars through Worldwide Telescope, the ability to go inside buildings thanks to backpack cameras, and see live video streams from a friend's phone, turning the static map image into a live video."
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Mod Me Up. You'll make a grown man cry.
Any info on when I get to summon Godzilla or UFO yet?
Democracy is for the people; you only vote once per season and we'll do the rest of the work for you don't have to.
We all know where this is going; combined with brain-machine interfacing this technology will be used to trap millions of humans in a nightmare world where everyone is forced to walk down the middle of the road, nobody can go indoors, and the population is terrorised by giant flying pliers.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
The technology is cool all in its own right. But take a look at the video. All cars look like they're all squashed by monster trucks. That makes it twice as cool!
I've driven around the DC beltway at 5pm on a friday. it's not something i'd want to simulate (or relive in any way)