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Re: Google Treks

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Post by bytesmith »

katmasteron wrote: post #48

It would be nice to try something like this with Oculus Rift and video. Would probably be a cool experience to view the trip down the Amazon Basin in a video and thanks to 360 degree camera / video capture, one would be able to move the head around and get an interactive experience out of it. I would like to try something like this just to test what kind of "being there" feeling would be achievable with the current t…

See my link below for an Oculus demo using 360 degree cameras. It's doesn't feel nearly as fluid or 3D as the other Oculus demos, but it's promising nonetheless.

Re: Google Treks

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Post by s_kilk »

benatkin wrote: post #3

Google can't wait to usher in a future where people stay in their rooms and eat Soylent while being entertained and exercised by their VR-enabled computers.

You should check out a book called The Light Of Other Days, in which remote-viewing wormhole-cameras are invented and a situation similar to what you are describing plays out.

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Post by nazgulnarsil »

benatkin wrote: post #3

Google can't wait to usher in a future where people stay in their rooms and eat Soylent while being entertained and exercised by their VR-enabled computers.

Check your bipedal privilege cis scum. No but seriously, every time you feel the urge to make a luddite point remember that there are disabled people who are getting a whole new lease on life via enabling technologies.

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Post by mtgx »

benatkin wrote: post #3

Google can't wait to usher in a future where people stay in their rooms and eat Soylent while being entertained and exercised by their VR-enabled computers.

I'm trying to decide whether you're making a positive point or a negative one.

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Post by toyg »

apunic wrote: post #13

Just because it's from Google it must be special? Don't want to sound too negative but wondering if Trek would get any attention if done by some startup.

Current top comment in this thread is exactly about a company doing it since 2004 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6210281 ). I'd never heard of them before; if anything, this is free publicity for them. Tide raising all boats etc etc.

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Post by FPSDavid »

jac_no_k wrote: post #14
benatkin wrote: post #3

Google can't wait to usher in a future where people stay in their rooms and eat Soylent while being entertained and exercised by their VR-enabled computers.

Partly a reality for cyclists. http://www.tacx.com/en/products/trainers/i-genius-multiplaye... http://www.cycleops.com/en/products/software/virtual-trainin... http://www.minoura.jp/english/trainer-e/option-e/cogmon-e.ht... Cycling on indoor trainers is boring without some sort of incentive.

iGenius + computer-controlled fan + Oculus Rift = give me NOW!
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