Indoor Google Street View of the British Museum
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#2One of my favourites: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/asset-viewer/Aw...
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#3I would have loved this as a kid (not to say I don't love it now).
I marvel at the fact that children growing up now will be able to take resources like this for granted. Amazing.
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#4I wonder how easy it would be to combine this with Oculus-like VR to make a fully explorable space? I guess you'd probably have to generate a 3D image of the space and texture it with street view photos. Is that doable?
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#5The HDR effect on those images is gross. Also, the white balance looks way off (blueish) to my eyes.
I'd say that the overall image quality is not very good with reflections and poor resolution that severely limit the view of details.
Such a pity given the value of the assets on display and the incredible opportunity of accessing them with this tool.
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#6The idea is great, but I've got really awful tearing when I move the camera around. I also have repeatedly tried to zoom in on something by double clicking and have been transported to another room. If I'm close to a wall (which I'm likely to be if I'm looking at an exhibit there) then I need to move the cursor out of the window as otherwise I've got a partially transparent rectangle covering the exhibit.
It's interesting, but it feels like there are a variety of problems that aren't issues when using streetview because of the context which suddenly become major problems.
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#7The exposures are definitely off, and they keep switching from one image to the other.
There is a cheap fix which would nonetheless make browsing much more pleasant: transition each image from the previous image's exposure to the current one over a second or so.
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#8I wonder how easy it would be to combine this with Oculus-like VR to make a fully explorable space? I guess you'd probably have to generate a 3D image of the space and texture it with street view photos. Is that doable?
If you just want to look around and jump from place to place, then it's trivial and likely already works with Google cardboard. If you're talking about being able to move freely, it's a much more complex problem and you do need a 3D model.
http://matterport.com/ attempts to do that with a 3D camera, but their prettiest results still rely on discrete spherical panoramas.
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#9In the next version, it would be cool if they could include "hotspots" where you can click and hear the audio that you'd get if you were there.
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#10Cursor key navigation seems broken on Firefox, unfortunately.