And the store owners will be able to put on digital price tags and ads, and viewers may click to buy online... next thing you know, you and your friend are "sitting" inside a restaurant on google "store" view and eating the food delivered from that place...
Google Street View now includes interiors
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#22Love the idea, but the Street View UI has never felt all that fun to use and it feels worse indoors. Walking around a shop or mall at Street View pace—12-ish steps for every press of a small, non-fixed arrow—is something I hope I never have a reason to do. The pancake ( http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/04/introducing-the-pancake-a-l... ) and the city-scale of things make moving on streets more tolerable (though Legoland…
12-ish steps for every press of a small, non-fixed arrow—is something I hope I never have a reason to do.
I accidentally discovered some keyboard commands to navigate which feels slightly easier, though the constant pausing to re-render the image is wonky.
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#24So is there anything other than this one comic book store an Legoland San Diego available? How can we find 'em? I'd love to go for a stroll through, say, the British Museum.
http://www.googleartproject.com/museums/nationalgallery
Wow, that's what I wanted! Google is one step ahead of me.
And I don't mind the fact that it's missing the British Museum, which I've already seen a couple of times anyway, cuz it has the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, and the Palais de Versailles.
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#25Love the idea, but the Street View UI has never felt all that fun to use and it feels worse indoors. Walking around a shop or mall at Street View pace—12-ish steps for every press of a small, non-fixed arrow—is something I hope I never have a reason to do. The pancake ( http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/04/introducing-the-pancake-a-l... ) and the city-scale of things make moving on streets more tolerable (though Legoland…
You can double click on the ground to move to that spot, or on the side of a building to move there and look at that spot. I see that indoors you cannot do this, but hopefully they will add it.
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#26that bike outside isn't locked ...
Go out to the street (use back arrow on the floor of the UI) then at the WSW point there is a ghost/cloaked car.
Perhaps someone was riding the bike and they're using content-aware filling to delete them!!
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#27Anyone have any ideas on what caused the phantom cars?
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#28And the store owners will be able to put on digital price tags and ads, and viewers may click to buy online... next thing you know, you and your friend are "sitting" inside a restaurant on google "store" view and eating the food delivered from that place...
And suddenly, I want to re-read Snow Crash.
And also have a digital assistant whose ethnicity changes based on who wanders into my virtual business.
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#29Love the idea, but the Street View UI has never felt all that fun to use and it feels worse indoors. Walking around a shop or mall at Street View pace—12-ish steps for every press of a small, non-fixed arrow—is something I hope I never have a reason to do. The pancake ( http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/04/introducing-the-pancake-a-l... ) and the city-scale of things make moving on streets more tolerable (though Legoland…
The Street View UI in the Google Earth app lets you walk around using first-person shooter WASD controls.
The surrounding textures are pasted onto simple 3D rectangles approximating buildings and houses. As you move, they transition into each other, giving you the least distorted view possible. With a fast connection, it feels pretty realistic, like you're walking around the neighborhood.
Almost like how mipmaps, if done well in 3D games, aren't really noticeable.
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#30Over time, the problem of maintenance overwhelms usability. Like the street view, but to a greater degree now, comes the problem of keeping those googlebytes of data updated ahead of looming obsolescence. Cool I can go in a store and look around...but what updates store change or - worse - closure?
ETA: puzzled by downvotes. Satellite views can be updated on a regular basis with relative ease by a largely passive system, and what's imaged is rather static; street view updates come with re-driving every road which ain't easy or cheap and may need more frequent updates; interiors change even more often and imagery/data cost much more per byte to maintain. Sure, interior views are cool - what's the cost of obtaining, and more important maintaining, them?