I guess it would be technically possible already, but Google would have to snap their images with much smaller distances, and make them load in much faster... space requirements would be huge lol.
This track is amazing. Not lyrics wise: neither the text nor rhymes nor the flow are especially good. Considering that it is a rap song these could be severe drawbacks. But the instrumental is so effective the track is globally awesome.
D'où j'sors ? D'une ronde. Belsunce breakdown.
I'd be happy to share more French hip hop with anyone who wants.
Also, videos are not playing right for me on firefox (audio only).
House street numbers and car plates are blurred on Street View in France, and often some small squares with text are also blurred by error.
Great. Please don't tell me what's wrong with my browser or os.
No night walk if you're not in the googleverse.
Same guy disappearing into the wall in two different places, I wonder if there is more of him?
Viewing this "Night Walk" demonstration, I felt an inkling of regret about returning Leap Motion. As others have noted, the experience is very immersive and exciting. The only thing holding it back, in my opinion, is the medium of mouse and keyboard. I wanted to move fluidly through Marseille instead of incrementally, through clicking and jerky motions of the mouse. If this kind of 3D / WebGL / geospatial content becomes more prevalent on the web, I can see a stronger practical use case for everyone owning Leap, or something like it.
Neal Stephenson's "Command Line" comes to mind, where he talks about how experiences are distilled and summarized for an end user. I have a vague negative feeling toward this, but I can present no argument.
Edit: reloading made it work.
Marseille has a severe graffiti problem, doesn't it? Mais c'est dégueulasse!
I didn't care much for the narration, but perhaps that's because when I travel I prefer to explore things on my own. The captions and videos were helpful though.
I was pleasantly surprised to discover that you didn't have to follow the green track (though you miss out on the pictures and videos). I discovered it by accident, actually. At some point in time I found out that I had become disoriented and had been going backwards for some time. Rather than go through the entire track again, I wanted to see if I could take a shortcut. It works.
You know what would be cool? Incorporating some sort of "Choose Your Own Adventure" elements into something like this. Kind of like Myst, but in real-world settings.
I was thinking the next step up from this would be to setup 360 degree cameras every 10 or so feet along this path and have them all record for say an hour. Then you could 'walk' from point to point and see/hear/track the city.
But I actually think this curated approach is much better as it helps you cut out the noise and tell a better story.
How it works: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/w3c-device-orientation-us...
Live demo: http://richtr.github.io/threeVR/examples/vr_basic.html
And is there a possibility to make the link to some particular spot?
(I can't imagine graffiti interesting to those who aren't themselves doing them. It's subjective, I know, and I respect that others have other views, I've heard about Banksy etc).
