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Fair point, for me 'massively' would be an significant amount of time / confusion saved. Whenever I want to go catch a bus at an overseas metro station, try fi
by scanny 7y ago
Fair point, for me 'massively' would be an significant amount of time / confusion saved.
Whenever I want to go catch a bus at an overseas metro station, try find a shop in a unfamiliar mall, or even try find where a clients desk is in an unfamiliar building, that would be fantastic.
The a potential to generate a snapshot of a space indoors would be super handy. Maybe even for places without an address you could look at a timestamped point cloud like that and see which building to go to.
Democratizing capturing 3d space in a simple/user-friendly and cheap way would open up really interesting doors.
- bigiain 7y agoStreetview type imagery/navigation solves that problem though, right? There's no need for the depth map/3d reconstruction going on here? Just a "walk through" with a 360degree camera (or multiple overlapping cameras) capturing 2D lets you find the shop or the desk.
- scanny 7y agoPotentially, but I am sure you find use from zooming around in 3d before going into streetview and taking a closer look, as being able to look on from up is a useful perspective. At least I can find streetview disorienting at times. Maybe it just comes down to personal preference. But having a finer scale of 3d, another level in google maps for example, seems like a logical next step.