Wednesday, May 27, 2009 |
14:08 - Ever closer to SimRealLife
http://www.360cities.net/image/streetview-cave-googleplex
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At Google they've got a testing lab for Street View where they surround you with panoramic screens and run the Street View images past you at near-video speed, in much higher resolution than you get in a browser. They call it the Street View Cave.
We mere mortals don't get access. But maybe someday.
This is all I ever wanted from video games, honestly. Google Earth gets me 90% of the way there. This would pretty much clinch the balance.
(Well, until they have to start refining the AI on all the NPCs you meet in the virtual world, and then address the various user complaints about how their own personal alt-history worlds are developing, and Earth courts become powerless to dictate law on the alternate realities where everyone spends all their time orchestrating economies and slaughtering armies and having sex with supermodels and dealing endlessly with Moriarty...)
Via Google Earth Blog.
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