Seems like one of those things I'll play with for about 30 minutes, think it's cool, and then never touch it again.
Google Earth VR
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#22Was playing with it - it's great. I was flying around the towns I know, but I'm reminded of the places that I need to go when I get a chance: Golden Gate Bridge The Washington Monument Disney World Yosemite Beijing The Grand Canyon
It looks very nausea inducing, even the video gave me a little bit of an issue. Did you experience any of that?
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#23Why only on HTC Vive? Does this require huge computing power, or is it because of the controllers? I hope it'll become available on the Google Daydream phones.
My bet would be the controllers, which would mean a Rift compatible release would be imminent when the Touch controllers are officially released in a month.
I've been using DK2 + Leap Motion to play some of the simpler Vive only titles. I'll try it and report back.
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#24Honestly, I'm visiting Mecca tonight. And then Tehran. And then North Korea.
Why the downvote? How visiting forbidden places isn't on the top of mind for people using this is beyond me. Area 51, White House grounds, Russian military bases, Syria. I know the experience will vary, but think big.
I thought Mecca was like, the opposite of a forbidden place.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why the downvote? How visiting forbidden places isn't on the top of mind for people using this is beyond me. Area 51, White House grounds, Russian military bases, Syria. I know the experience will vary, but think big.
You can go to Tehran & North Korea, just need to apply for a visa.
> "You can go to Tehran & North Korea"
Leaving, on the other hand...
https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/alertswarnings...
https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/alertswarnings...
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why the downvote? How visiting forbidden places isn't on the top of mind for people using this is beyond me. Area 51, White House grounds, Russian military bases, Syria. I know the experience will vary, but think big.
I thought Mecca was like, the opposite of a forbidden place.
Mecca, Saudi Arabia is slightly different, of course.
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#27> Available first on HTC Vive
I can't find if it'll have support for DayDream View, which I just got for free with my pixel. Does anyone have more info?
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#28Of course. Only available on the HTC Vive.
I regret my oculus rift purchase.
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#29Was playing with it - it's great. I was flying around the towns I know, but I'm reminded of the places that I need to go when I get a chance: Golden Gate Bridge The Washington Monument Disney World Yosemite Beijing The Grand Canyon
It looks very nausea inducing, even the video gave me a little bit of an issue. Did you experience any of that?
I just spent 20 minutes in it and the controls are well done. I had no nausea issues. I hope it is loading the models to local cache so that on repeat viewings I wont have the texture lag. Pretty impressive though.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Online demo is just 360 photos but real VR application seems to be fully 3D (from the videos). This would make sense as it's based on Google Earth which is 3D. Even WebGL web version of Google Maps is already 3D since some time ago. See e.g. Colosseum here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Colosseum/@41.8950247,12.4...
Saying something is 3D is meaningless. 3D video is one thing, 3D models are totally different. From what I saw in demo, it looks like they are generating simple 3D models from the photos. Which is pretty damn cool!
Google Earth already has thousands of handmade 3D models, as well as auto generated models.
Here is an interesting quora on where Google Earth sources their models from: https://www.quora.com/How-are-the-3D-models-of-buildings-gen...