So, I posted before the "billion pixel tour" from NPR, but the guys who actually created it have a far cooler narrative which shows the whole trek, not just one vantage point.. start here:
http://explore.glacierworks.org/en/
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#22Is it me or is this the first time we have seen an MP4 working in tandem with javascript? Does anyone have any other examples of this? Looks great.
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#23The problem with ALL of these images, virtual 3d tours, interactive maps - it just does NOT show scale! What does a person look like in these images? I have never been there, but I have no sense of scale of these images. Can a person be seen from these?
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#24This is the thing that I was wishing existed a couple of months ago when I read "Into Thin Air". It's a fantastic read about the 1996 Mount Everest disaster where eight climbers died, but I often had difficulty visualising what was going on. (There's also a film, Everest, due out next year.) To be better convey what it's like to climb Everest, I think this visualisation would be improved if it had more annotations ab…
I've really enjoyed watching Everest: Beyond the Limit, which is available on Netflix and gives a lot of context on the route.
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#25I'm still mesmerized - the technology behind the site and the the beauty of nature. I will never make it there in my life - but being able to appreciate it almost in first person, makes me so happy. The sound of the wind adds another dimension.
Would have been so cool if I could send this to my Geography teacher in my school 15 years back. She is probably still drawing bergschrund, crevasses, gorges in a blackboard with chalk.
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#26Is it me or is this the first time we have seen an MP4 working in tandem with javascript? Does anyone have any other examples of this? Looks great.
Nope, seen many examples of this recently (but I'm a web developer, and we usually pass around links to the latest and greatest). Of course, I can't think of one off the top of my head now...
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#27Never loaded..
Same here. I don't see why privacy invading JS bloat from facebook, twitter, google analytics or scorecardresearch should be critical for its operation.
I contract for a media company that handles (and cleanses) PII (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personally_identifiable_inform...). We take this information very seriously. We could give a shit about who you are, we just want you to become the same anonymous number for tracking reasons. Why is this such a big deal? AT WORST you'd get ads actually targeted to your interests instead of bullshit ads you can't click through (see: YouTube). Perhaps I'm sort of less sensitive to this since my first name and last name is a primary key to me (there is nobody else with my name combo on the planet, meaning I'm horribly googleable already).
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#28Is it me or is this the first time we have seen an MP4 working in tandem with javascript? Does anyone have any other examples of this? Looks great.
Nope, seen many examples of this recently (but I'm a web developer, and we usually pass around links to the latest and greatest). Of course, I can't think of one off the top of my head now...
If you remember them, please post here... I am surprised there is so little interactive HTML5-MP4 examples right now.
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#29These guys have video of a lot of that climb.
www.trekvisions.com
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same here. I don't see why privacy invading JS bloat from facebook, twitter, google analytics or scorecardresearch should be critical for its operation.
I contract for a media company that handles (and cleanses) PII ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personally_identifiable_inform... ). We take this information very seriously. We could give a shit about who you are, we just want you to become the same anonymous number for tracking reasons. Why is this such a big deal? AT WORST you'd get ads actually targeted to your interests instead of bullshit ads you can't click thro…
~= I drank the koolaid.