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wake me up when i can use VR headset and look around :)
by gcb0 11y ago
wake me up when i can use VR headset and look around :)
- slazaro 11y agoYou can do that with google cardboard!
- sloreti 11y agoI investigated making this recently, however the (free) Google Street View API currently only returns 640x640 images, not the entire equirectangular image [1] that would be needed to create a photosphere for a VR app. So one can make a cool application like OP's here, but creating a panoramic experience would require multiple API calls and your own fancy stitching algorithm. [1] http://wiki.panotools.org/Equirectangular_Projection http://wiki.panotools.org/Equirectangular_Projection
- pyrotek 11y agoI've been working on a project to do that, basically I download all the streetview tiles along a route and stitch them back together. Then I turn that into a 360 video and let YouTube handle the rest. See here a video speeding through South Africa : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtWDF8-gRGk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtWDF8-gRGk or rural New Zealand : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9s6Ahxfjmc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9s6Ahxfjmc Fun to use with google cardboard. I'm still not sure what the best speed is, I think I may have them going too fast still.
- xkiwi 11y agoThose videos are so amazing! I wonder how you achieved that!