My dream is a smooth FPS like street view. Right now it's so disjointed and lagged. Street view could be so much more. I know microsoft had some technology to put photos from different angles together..
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#32here's a cool one: Wailing Wall
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#33How long before we have a real time view of the world - with all the millions of smart phones, cameras, public security cameras all pushing data to the web? Kind of feel like those Circle/Social cam guys had something there - a real time distributed camera.
There's a startup up there - but maybe instagram has already done it :D
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#34Cool but indexing is off and different fron Google results, strangely. In Seattle, where streets are mapped by compass rose I tyoed in # N. # St., which should mean North, got the results for NE. Great concept, just wish it mirrored Google's results.
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#35How long before we have a real time view of the world - with all the millions of smart phones, cameras, public security cameras all pushing data to the web? Kind of feel like those Circle/Social cam guys had something there - a real time distributed camera. There's a startup up there - but maybe instagram has already done it :D
download lightt: its like seeing through other peoples eyes.
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#36How long before we have a real time view of the world - with all the millions of smart phones, cameras, public security cameras all pushing data to the web? Kind of feel like those Circle/Social cam guys had something there - a real time distributed camera. There's a startup up there - but maybe instagram has already done it :D
TapIn.tv?
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#37I wanted to be all "yeah, whatever" about this, but it's fantastic. Seeing it load places from all over the world as you type in an address, and seeing how much the streets look exactly like what you might expect, is fascinating. Cool hack indeed!
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#38Well this is freaky, I typed in "white house" and I got an INTERNAL tour of the white house. Awesome. Also try "google campus". What's interesting is the real google streetview needs adobe flash to run, this works with flash disabled.
That's not true. Real Google Street View runs without Flash if you enable WebGL.
I am using Firefox 17 with webgl, when I am in google street view it gives me
To use street view, you need Adobe Flash Player version 10 or newer. Get the latest Flash Player.
When I try to go to http://maps.google.com/maps?vector=1 to enable webgl it goes into an endless loop.
This page might explain why: http://support.google.com/maps/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...
Some low-end integrated GPUs (like the Intel GMA 3100 and 3150) are not compatible
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#39Really well executed. I was ready to be not impressed and was blown away.
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#40This project does something subtle, yet amazing with perception, including one's perception of technology. We've had Street View for half a decade now; the novelty of the fact that you can pull up an instant 360-degree panorama for a significant percentage of street addresses in the developed world has worn off.
Yet this makes it new again – I found myself laughing like a child as I slowed down my typing, watching my screen be transported to a completely new location with each keystroke. It made me appreciate anew the technology at work, while also appreciating the daftness of it all, jumping around the world en route to my destination as if propelled by some sort of Douglas Adams-style teleporter.
Fantastic work.