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As someone who worked at Realtime Worlds on the MyWorld project, this is very poignant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realtime_Worlds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MyWorld
I worked at Real Time Worlds on that too. Probably before it was called My World, then I think we were calling it Real Driving or something then.
Small world!
Cheers James
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It's super cool. Does the 3D tile mao extend down to the street level? I would have loved to see flying along the streets between the buildings.
Might it be the extreme chromatic aberration? I once read an article saying how to achieve 'photorealism' in computer graphics, one should add chromatic aberration, as that's what camera lenses naturally produce. I think some people take it too far though!
Very cool! AI should to context fill more detailed textures and fix some geometry issues with the buildings.
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As a complete non-gamer, the ability to walk around the earth with a VR headset would justify buying one to me. There are so many cities I've always wanted to walk down the streets of!
As the parent comments mentioned, Google Earth VR already exists and it's awesome (disclaimer: I had a hand in creating it). It's as close as you can get to "walking down the streets" with current data. All the available 3D and Street View data is there.
I brought my Quest Pro and a gaming laptop with me to visit a nursing home a few months back and took some of the residents on guided Earth VR tours of their hometowns/places that they remember fondly. I’ll never forget all the tearful smiles I witnessed that day, and it’s all thanks to you and your team.
Quick question: are these new 3D Tiles the same as what’s in Earth VR, or are they higher resolution/newer imagery? The video demo linked upthread looks incredibly crisp, but I’m wondering if that’s just an artifact of seeing it in 2D (the upclose castle textures on flyby looked a lot more like what I’m used to from Earth VR).
I also tried my hand on integrating the Google Earth Tiles with Cesium.js for GPS Track visualization: https://cubetrek.com/static/highresmode.html It basically allows you to replay your hikes, running or biking adventures in 3D. I wonder how much Google's gonna charge once it's out of experimental mode.
YouTube video from the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cziz3qYT4Q
It's super cool. Does the 3D tile mao extend down to the street level? I would have loved to see flying along the streets between the buildings.
Very cool! AI should to context fill more detailed textures and fix some geometry issues with the buildings.
I think you're looking for this thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36000631
Thanks for watching out for a fellow user!
For years I've been dreaming of a driving/pedestrian sandbox game that used Google Maps data to let me drive recklessly around my home town with accurate models of the buildings and roads. This demo reminds me of that dream.
I've been looking for a game that lets me drive around real towns ever since.
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As the parent comments mentioned, Google Earth VR already exists and it's awesome (disclaimer: I had a hand in creating it). It's as close as you can get to "walking down the streets" with current data. All the available 3D and Street View data is there.
First off, THANK YOU to you and the rest of the Earth VR team. You’ve brought literal joy to many people through your work. I brought my Quest Pro and a gaming laptop with me to visit a nursing home a few months back and took some of the residents on guided Earth VR tours of their hometowns/places that they remember fondly. I’ll never forget all the tearful smiles I witnessed that day, and it’s all thanks to you and…
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As the parent comments mentioned, Google Earth VR already exists and it's awesome (disclaimer: I had a hand in creating it). It's as close as you can get to "walking down the streets" with current data. All the available 3D and Street View data is there.
First off, THANK YOU to you and the rest of the Earth VR team. You’ve brought literal joy to many people through your work. I brought my Quest Pro and a gaming laptop with me to visit a nursing home a few months back and took some of the residents on guided Earth VR tours of their hometowns/places that they remember fondly. I’ll never forget all the tearful smiles I witnessed that day, and it’s all thanks to you and…